How to Be an Antiracist

Jun 30, 2020 by Janet Maker

National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism.

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

May 31, 2020 by Janet Maker

This is Ilhan Omar’s story as the first African refugee, Somali-American, and one one the first Muslim women elected to Congress.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Mar 31, 2020 by Janet Maker

The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a “Big Other” operating in the interests of surveillance capital.

Twenty-First Century Socialism (Radical Futures)

Feb 28, 2020 by Janet Maker

In this urgent manifesto for a 21st century left, author Jeremy Gilbert shows that we need a revitalized socialist politics that learns from the past to adapt to contemporary challenges.

Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance

Dec 31, 2019 by Janet Maker

In Where We Go from Here, New York Times bestselling author Bernie Sanders reveals the blueprint for his 2020 presidential run by chronicling the day-by-day struggles that he and his progressive colleagues have waged over the last two years.

In Defense of Julian Assange

Nov 30, 2019 by Janet Maker

The purpose of this book is to build support for Assange and prevent his extradition and delivery into the hands of the Trump administration. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.

The Art and Science of Caregiving: Stories of Inspiring Elders with an End-of-Life Guidebook

Sep 30, 2019 by Janet Maker

In The Art and Science of Caregiving, Annelise Schinzinger helps readers become skilled companions and caregivers.

Building the Impossible: A Regugee’s Journey of Giving Back 

Sep 1, 2019 by Janet Maker

The book recounts the story of Zebiba Shekhia’s achievement in building a high school for Eritrean refugee girls in Sudan.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Jun 1, 2019 by Janet Maker

Solitary

Apr 30, 2019 by Janet Maker

Solitary is Albert Woodfox’s story of serving more than four decades in solitary confinement―in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana―all for a crime he did not commit.

Light Upon Light: In Search of a Beautiful God

Jan 31, 2019 by Janet Maker

In Light Upon Light: In Search of a Beautiful God, Mickey Weems shares with all of us a deep and personal account of his spiritual journey. He explores Islamic theology, self-reflects on his own experiences, and searches for a greater purpose.

Searching for the White Magician

Dec 31, 2018 by Janet Maker

In Searching for the White Magician Stefania Magidson invites the reader to join her on a journey of exploration and rediscovery of that inner place that holds the lens of mystery through which life filters, if we allow it.

The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem

Oct 31, 2018 by Janet Maker

The inside story of China’s organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong.

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Sep 30, 2018 by Janet Maker

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling–and timely–history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.

American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family

Jul 31, 2018 by Janet Maker

In this powerful book that combines the best aspects of memoir and political history, the son of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and...

Reporter

Jun 30, 2018 by Janet Maker

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time—a heartfelt, hugely...

American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear

Apr 30, 2018 by Janet Maker

Using his unique lens as a critical race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy,...

Schoolhouse Wreck: The Betsy DeVos Story

Mar 31, 2018 by Janet Maker

Authors Jason LInkins and Phil Lewis describe what Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is doing to destroy secular public schools in...

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

Jan 31, 2018 by Janet Maker

In The Captured Economy , Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind breakdowns in democratic governance that...

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

Dec 31, 2017 by Janet Maker

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of...

Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

Oct 31, 2017 by Janet Maker

In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world’s leading nuclear scientists and...

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

Sep 30, 2017 by Janet Maker

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders promised voters a future to believe in through his progressive platform...

Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo

Jul 31, 2017 by Janet Maker

This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir’s time inside America’s...

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Jun 30, 2017 by Janet Maker

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a...

Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

Mar 31, 2017 by Janet Maker

There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book,...

The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance

Feb 28, 2017 by Janet Maker

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in...

We’re All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free

Jan 1, 2017 by Janet Maker

Often called “The Convict’s Bible,” this book is also relevant and important to any spiritual seeker. Interfaith...

Wild Flower – The True Story of a Romanian Girl in Africa

Nov 30, 2016 by Janet Maker

The story of Nina Smart’s life in Africa reads like a thriller. At the tender age of 11 Geanina is asked to choose between her white...

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon By Rosa Brooks

Sep 11, 2016 by Janet Maker

Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today, America’s wars are everywhere...

Listen Liberal – What Ever Happened To The Party of The People? by Thomas Frank

Jun 22, 2016 by Janet Maker

From the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics...

Yanis Varoufakis – And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary The crisis in Europe is not over, it’s getting worse! In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular...

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy. Description Why is America...

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary The New York Times-bestselling book for kids—and their parents, teachers, and cool grown-up friends—documenting America’s...

Robert B. Reich – Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date – a passionate yet practical,...

The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a...

Dennis Childs – Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery In Slaves of the State Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of...

Thomas Piketty – The Economics of Inequality

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for...

Mike Lofgren – The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government

Jun 2, 2016 by Janet Maker

Summary The book is an insider’s account of who really runs Washington regardless of which party is in power, written by Mike...