Product Description: Mexican Revolutions is a brief, important history of the revolutions, class conflicts, civil wars, and feuds that took place in Mexico from 1910 to 1920, by celebrated historian John Womack.Published in time for the centennial decade of the Mexican Revolution, this book is an important reframing of a critical stage in Mexico's modern history...read more

Product Description: At a time when Americans owe close to $800 billion in credit card debt, the myth is that credit cards are primarily financing America’s luxury lifestyles—helping white suburban families pay the costs attached to extravagant homes, luxury cars, and golf club memberships—or helping those who aspire to these lifestyles...read more

Product Description: Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitarianism and middle-class opportunity, America has become the most unequal of developed nations—a land where corporate leaders earn hundreds of times the pay of average workers, and the only population group growing faster than millionaires is the uninsured...read more

A cautionary volume of essays by leading scholars and activists examines the pervasive consequences of economic inequality in America, drawing on current research to explore such issues as the causes and dimensions of inequality, the persistence of racial disparities, the erosion of democracy and community, and inequality as a moral and religious problem. 12,000 first printing.

An illustrated history of the NYPD traces the development of the world's largest municipal police force from its founding in 1845 to the present day, in a study that uncovers the truths behind controversies and reveals an organization fraught with hidden conflicts between politicians, bureaucrats, and the men and women on the beat. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A long and painful episode in our nation's history is ending, and a new and more promising chapter is beginning. At this critical juncture progressives have a unique opportunity to reassert themselves as agents of bold ideas and catalysts of political and social transformation...read more

A portrait of NYPD Detective David Durk chronicles the career of a police officer whose work with Frank Serpico against police corruption within the department brought about the Knapp Commission investigation and who has continued to battle corruption within the NYPD. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

An account of how the video cassette recorder set off a war between two giant corporations, Sony and Universal Pictures, a war that entangled Hollywood and corporate executives, lobbyists, the Supreme Court, and ordinary Americans