Political Activism

Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of M...

New York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestse...

Volume 4 in the acclaimed series Reinventing Social Emancipation, it assembles first-person narratives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Wide-ra...

Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell Univers...

There is a saying in Russian jails. Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disapp...

Occupy Wall Street, as centered in New York City, received much publicity. Little attention, however, has been granted to the hundreds of Occupy gr...

In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction and a political system offering more ...

From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contempo...

In The Roots of Resilience Meredith L. Weiss examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or hyb...

In the moralistic texts of jeremiadic discourse, authors lament the condition of society, utilizing prophecy as a means of predicting its demise. T...

Ilhan Omars career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to...

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the peoplePropelled by the belief that government has slipped...

Make Your Voice Heard Through Nonviolent Resistance Craft This book is a must for anyone who loves to make, and who seeks inspiration to make a mo...

Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. B...

A comprehensive, sensitive view of one of the most controversial hangings of modern IndiaOn 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by...

One hundred years on, it is hard to imagine the violent disruption caused by the suffragette movement. After a century of peaceful protest had brou...

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents travel from Zambia to ...

The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record sea shells, ochre and stone ...

John Moriarty was a man who was gloriously indefinable a writer, philosopher, teacher, gardener, poet, mystic, ordinary man and ultimately, and s...

The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (18831969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who ...