Poetry. THE BAGHDAD BLUES presents documentary filmmaker/co-creator of About Baghdad, Sinan Antoon's first poems in English. Antoon's line, although lyrical, is packed with the absence and fury which ought to make us shake a fist at the skies... read more

Poetry. MARS BEING RED is the most political book of Bell's storied career--and one of his most beautiful. In a recent interview Marvin Bell said, "I've been trying for thirty years to figure out how best to put the news into poems--what other people would call politics. But there are some hairy aesthetic questions connected to overtly political poems." read more

Cultural Writing. Politics. Shor's incisive commentaries and essays survey the spectacles that have come to dominate the political and cultural landscape of Bushwhacked America. "Combining an academic's careful research and a political activist's quest for justice, Shor speaks plainly and speaks with passion in these essays that analyze the political and cultural crisis of the contemporary United States"--Robert Jensen... read more

Nonfiction. Marketing is blamed on everything from childhood obesity to youth violence. CANDY FROM STRANGERS goes behind the headlines to offer an unbiased and in-depth look at the relationship between children and mass media. Refusing to offer easy answers, Stephen Dale raises the rarely voiced concern that our hand-wringing about media and its effect on kids may distract us from the truly important issues facing future generations... read more

Cultural Writing. Politics and History. Murray Bookchin synthesizes ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory in this hard-hitting examination of global capitalism and its devastating effect on the natural world. Covering a wide scope of political history and human attitudes towards exploitable resources, Bookchin raises fundamental questions regarding the very nature of freedom and domination... read more

Cultural Writing. Education. Anarchism. Elizabeth Byrne Ferm (1857-1944) was principal of the Modern School at Stelton, a utopian-anarchist colony in New Jersey. Stating that "Education, free from outer interference, would flow as normally through human life as the sun, moon and stars move on their way and so fulfill their use and destiny," Ferm proposes an educative practice distinct from pedagogy, one where the task of the educator is to get out of the way of the self-directed child... read more

History. African Studies. In the Introduction, Robin D. G. Kelly comments, A HISTORY OF PAN-AFRICAN REVOLT is one of those rare books that continues to strike a chord of urgency, even half a century after it was first published. Time and again, its lessons have proven to be valuable and relevant for understanding liberation movements in Africa and the diaspora... read more

Cultural Writing. Susan Sontag delivered LITERATURE IS FREEDOM as her acceptance speech after receiving the highly prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Among other things this brilliant speech touches on the historical and philosophical roots of Sontag's fervent opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq... read more

Cultural Writing. African American Studies. In this radical new work, the struggle for African American liberation is analyzed using the Marxist dialectic as a way of understanding both the forces inside the civil rights movement and its revolutionary implications for the capitalist system against which it fought... read more