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Pioneering feminist Catholic Ruether offers a stirring manifesto for progressive Catholics and a challenge to Vatican politics, in this book in the acclaimed Does Not Equal series.

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into a growing number of professions. This title asks the question - are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there.

An exciting new entry in Howard Zinn's New Press People's History Series, "A People's Art History of the United States" places art history squarely in the rough and tumble ferment of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice, from the colonial era through the present day--stylishly illustrated with over 100 examples of American political artwork. Interweaving history and art history, author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combin...

This volume contains many new deeply in-depth articles on Western Esotericism. Jason Augustus Newcomb offers many new advancements in practical Hermetic magick, describes his experiences at a ten-day meditation retreat, and offers a new translation of the Corpus Hermeticum Book 2. Timothy Hogan contributes an article offering detailed instructions for Spagyrical Alchemy. Darcy Kuntz offers a previously unpublished variation on the Golden Dawn ...

More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, a...

White is portrayed here in his full complexity, a man whose physical appearance enabled him to negotiate two different worlds. Deeply researched and documented, this biography provides a vantage point from which to view the leading political and cultural figures of his time and a glimpse into the world of civil rights politics and activism in the pre-civil rights era. 8 pages of photos.

Called "intimate, intelligent, and sincere" by "The New Yorker, " the more than 300 love letters written by Beauvoir to Algren after their love-at-first-sight meeting in 1947 are collected for the first time. 16 photos.

What is it that makes Americans so American? It can't be money: although the United States is the most productive economy in the world, it also has the highest poverty rates. It can't really be faith, either: Americans are the most religious people in the advanced industrial world, but they have the oldest official separation of church and state. Skepticism? Americans are highly suspicious of government, but at the same time they have a naive ...

Antoine Volodine has been hailed as one of the most innovative and accomplished writers in France today. Compared by critics to Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Volodine weaves an unusual novel of political and psychological intrigue in a lush, exotic setting. The publication of Naming the Jungle marks his American debut and the first translation of his work into English. Puesto Libertad could be any Latin American city torn by the strife of civ...

In the 19th century, Americans kept up with the larger world through hundreds of colorful, idiosyncratic, and highly opinionated local and regional newspapers. Coopersmith delves into this untapped source to present an entirely new and fascinating perspective on the history of the Civil War.

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