Social science

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

by Mahmood Mamdani

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that...

The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class

by Michael J. Casey

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic...

The Old American: A Novel

by Ernest Hebert

A long-awaited new novel set in the period of the French and Indian Wars brings a new dimension to the region's history

Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community

by Thomas A. A. Lyson

A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.

Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market

by Rachel Black & Carlo Petrini

From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine.

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

by Philip Dray

It is easy to shrink from our country’s brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation’s closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thousands...

Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem

by Stephen Hunter

Violent Screen is a confident walk on the rough side of movie-making with one of today's rarities: a gun enthusiast, bestselling novelist, and the son of a murder victim who, for the past thirteen years, has...

The Last of the Black Emperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders

by Jonetta Rose Barras

The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious obscenities at the woman who helped agents trap him, Barry was publicly...

Design for Emotion

by Trevor van Gorp & Edie Adams

Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process....

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

by Sean Tejaratchi & Dunn Katherine

A detectives strange and gruesome scrapbook of photos.

Occupy

by Noam Chomsky & Stanley Rogouski

With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience

Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

by Vijay Prashad

The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

by Oran Hesterman

“An important, accessible book on a crucial subject. The author ... writes about reform efforts with contagious energy and palpable authority. Food for thought and action.” —The New York Times

Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me

by Geert Wilders

Marked for Death

Fanatics, terrorists, and appeasers have tried everything to silence Geert Wilders, Europe’s most controversial Member of Parliament—from putting him on trial to putting a price on his head....

A Time for Governing: Policy Solutions from the Pages of National Affairs

by Yuval Levin & Meghan Clyne

America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling...

Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis

by Malcolm Harris & Neal Gorenflo

A collection of messages from the front lines of the new “Lost Generation”

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill

by Daniel Imhoff & Michael Pollan

Our Chance to Right the Food System:

Every five to seven years, Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. To a large extent, the Farm Bill writes the rules and sets the playing field...

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

by Fred Pearce

How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.

An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food...

Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

by Stuart Buck

Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of “acting white.” How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era...

Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

by Emily Phd Craig

Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.

In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics...