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The New Press Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europes Refugee Crisis
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017 Galvanizing and deeply compassionate.”O Magazine From Time magazine’s European Union correspondent, a powerful exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of migrants who have made the perilous journey into Europe In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous traffickers, including over seven hundred men, women, and children in a single day in April 2015. In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis and the civil war in Syria, Cast Away describes the agonizing stories and the impossible decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life: a pregnant Eritrean woman, four days overdue, chooses to board an obviously unsafe smuggler’s ship to Greece; a father, swimming from a sinking ship, has to decide whether to hold on to one child or let him go to save another. Veteran journalist Charlotte McDonald-Gibson offers a vivid, on-the-ground glimpse of the pressures and hopes that drive individuals to risk their lives. Recalling the work of Katherine Boo and Caroline Moorehead, Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of one of the most urgent humanitarian issues of our time.
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The New Press Peoples Art History of the United States A 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
Introduces readers to to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Proof that art doesn't just belong in museums and archives.
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The New Press Spirit of 74 The How the American Revolution Really Began How the American Revolution Began
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The New Press The Ferguson Report: Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and court system, and connecting the shooting of Brown with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and other young black men at the hands of police across the country. In the wake of these protests, the Department of Justice launched a six-month investigation, resulting in a report that Colorlines characterizes as "so caustic it reads like an Onion article" and laying bare what the Huffington Post calls "a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka's ghastliest nightmares." Among the report's findings are that the Ferguson Police Department "Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Amendment," "Detain[s] People Without Reasonable Suspicion and Arrest[s] People Without Probable Cause," "Engages in a Pattern of First Amendment Violations," "Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force," and "Erode[s] Community Trust, Especially Among Ferguson's African-American Residents." Contextualized here in a substantial introduction by renowned legal scholar and former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Theodore M. Shaw, The Ferguson Report is a sad, sobering, and important document, providing a snapshot of American law enforcement at the start of the twenty-first century, with resonance far beyond one small town in Missouri.
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The New Press Five Bells Being LGBT in Australia
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The New Press Noontide Toll Stories
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The New Press The Dead Do Not Die: "Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius
Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach—uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation—renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild. The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes", called "a book of stunning range and near genius" by David Levering Lewis. In this work, Lindqvist uses Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a point of departure for a haunting tour through the colonial past, retracing the steps of Europeans in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward and thus exposing the roots of genocide via his own journey through the Saharan desert. The full text of Terra Nullius is also included, for which Lindqvist traveled 7,000 miles through Australia in search of the lands the British had claimed as their own because it was inhabited by "lower races," the native Aborigines—nearly nine-tenths of whom were annihilated by whites. The shocking story of how "no man's land" became the province of the white man was called "the most original work on Australia and its treatment of Aboriginals I have ever read . . . marvelous" by Phillip Knightley, author of Australia.
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The New Press Teaching Brain The The Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
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The New Press Uncle Swami South Asians in America Today
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The New Press Wrong Turn Americas Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency
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The New Press Betting on Famine Why the World Still Goes Hungry
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The New Press Machine The A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right
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The New Press Race to Incarcerate A Graphic Retelling
The indispensable primer on race, class and criminal justice now updated into a vivid graphic narrative.
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The New Press Teaching Matters Stories from Inside City Schools
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The New Press Moral Underground The How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
The surprising story of how middle class Americans are reaching across class lines and taking a stand against an unfair economy.
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The New Press Waiting to Land A Mostly Political Memoir 19852008
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The New Press Herb Kohl Reader The Awakening the Heart of Teaching
Selections from Kohl's best writing, spanning his whole career collected for the first time in one reader. A major resource for teachers and parents.
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The New Press Fakers Hoaxers Con Artists Counterfeiters and Other Great Pretenders
True-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, Fakers researches and explores belief, want and trust.
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The New Press See You in Court How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation
A bold new argument that conservative policy has lead to America's lawsuit culture.
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The New Press Unjust Deserts How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance
Why most of the wealth that is earned comes in the form of a free lunch'.'
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The New Press Grand Illusion The Myth of Voter Choice in a TwoPart Tyranny
A smart, provocative and wildly entertaining personal-narrative-plus-analysis by Ralph Nader's campaign managerillustrating just how destructive the US two-party system can be for democracy.
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The New Press Trial of Donald Rumsfeld The A Prosecution by Book
Evidence that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes, presented in the form of a court case.
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The New Press Whose Torah A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism Whose Religion
Noted scholar and groundbreaking rabbi Rebecca Alpert discusses what the Torah actually says about sex, war, poverty, the environment and other major contemporary issues.
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The New Press Kill Khalid
A leading international correspondent reconstructs the pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas. Authoritative, compassionate and informative.
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The New Press PRETENSIONS TO EMPIRE Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
The distinguished essayist's incisive critique of the Bush regime - a must-have book for political junkies and Lewis Lapham fans.
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The New Press The Public School and the Private Vision: A Search for America in Education and Literature
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The New Press Historians in Trouble Plagiarism Fraud and Politics in the Ivory Tower
A revealing look at headline-grabbing controversies revolving around charges of plagiarism and fraud in the profession of history.
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The New Press Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam Or How Not to Learn from the Past
Leading scholars of Vietnam examine the links between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq - and the obsession of US foreign policy makers with the Vietnam Syndrome.
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The New Press Critical Race Realism Psychology Race and the Law Intersections of Psychology Race and Law
A new way of looking at thelegal system, focused on the nexus of social science, race and the law, that takes the field of critical legal studies into the 21st century.
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The New Press MYTHS OF FREE TRADE Why American Trade Policy Has Failed
A myth-busting guide to free-trade ideology from the ranking Democrat on the House's Commerce Committee.
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The New Press LESS SAFE LESS FREE The Failure of Preemption in the War on Terror
A cogent critique of the new preventive paradigm' in counterterrorism policy by two of the nation's leading legal scholars.'
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The New Press JANE FONDAS WORDS OF POLITICS AND PASSION
Inspiring look at the politics of a generation through the words of one of the most iconic women of our time.
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