THE NEW PRESS

(P/B) ON LANGUAGE
Described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky's most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought. In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, m...
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(P/B) THE STIGLITZ REPORT
The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to address this crucial issue. The Stiglitz Report, released by the committee in late 2009, sees the recent financial crisis as the latest and most dama...
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(H/B) HELL IS A VERY SMALL PLACE
On any given day in America, more than 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement - held in utter isolation for twenty-three or twenty-four hours a day, moved there from the general population without any legal process or justification. In a "potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole" (Kirkus Reviews), Hell Is a Very Small Place offers rare accounts from the people who are now or have been in solitary confinement. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, "The personal accounts by priso...
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(P/B) LIVING ILLEGAL
Todays polarized debates over immigration revolve around a set of one-dimensional characters and unchallenged stereotypes. Yet the resulting policy prescriptions, not least of them Arizonas draconian new law SB 1070, are dangerously real and profoundly counterproductive. A major new antidote to this trend, Living Illegal is an ambitious new account of the least understood and most relevant aspects of the American immigrant experience today. Based on years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, Living Illegal offers richly texture...
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(H/B) FRENCH PHILOSOPHY SINCE 1945
After World War II, philosophy in France entered a rich period whose influence is still strong today. New styles were invented, new problems were formulated, and new critical functions were engaged, reaching into many domains around the world. French Philosophy Since 1945, the final volume in the four-volume New Press Postwar French Thought series, provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding this singular period in the history of ideas. Organized around a series of interconnected questions, featuring many different and sometimes op...
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(H/B) ANTIQUITIES
Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century. With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on societ...
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(H/B) LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME
Since its first publication in 1995, "Lies My Teacher Told Me" has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and has sold over a million copies in its various editions. What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education". In "Lies My Teacher Told Me", James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginnin...
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(P/B) THE ANTI-AESTHETIC
For the past twenty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates...
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(P/B) EVIL PARADISES

(P/B) PLAYING IN THE LIGHT: A NOVEL

(P/B) WORKING: PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO ALL DAY AND HOW

(P/B) CENSORING CULTURE - CONTEMPORARY THREATS TO FREE EXPRESSIO

(P/B) THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
"The Mexican Revolution" was the first revolution of the twentieth century, one which set the stage for a century of popular, colonial, and socialist revolts. First published in Spanish in 1971, Adolfo Gilly's "The Mexican Revolution" has been widely recognized as a seminal account of this great popular upheaval. Written while Gilly was a political prisoner at the famous penitentiary of Lecumberri in Mexico, the book sold thousands of copies in its first edition. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(H/B) THE BODY HUNTERS - HOW THE DRUG INDUSTRY TESTS ITS

(P/B) GIANTS OF JAZZ

GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
In this collection of essays, Saskia Sassen deals with such current topics as the ''global city'', gender and migration, information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. She demonstrates how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become, bringing together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thought...
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(H/B) GUESTS AND ALIENS
(. . .) ''Guests and Aliens'' shows the causes of immigration that historically have resulted in nation's welcoming incomers as guests or disparaging them as aliens. Sassen describes the relative normality of the pursuit of work across borders during the emergence of the European nation-states and explains the economic and political mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European Jews during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER (P/B)

(H/B) THE MONSTER AT OUR DOOR - THE GLOBAL THREAT OF AVIAN FLU

(P/B) THE GERMAN ARMY AND GENOCIDE - CRIMES AGAINST WAR PRISONER