Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94854-0 (0-307-94854-4)

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row.

In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded... Read more >

Cheating Justice
How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution? and What We Can Do about It
Written by Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0338-1 (0-8070-0338-7)

Holtzman and Cooper reveal how the Bush-Cheney administration broke the law–and why and how the people can bring them to justice.

Deceiving Congress about the war in Iraq, illegal wire-tapping, and torture are only a few of the ways that the Bush-Cheney administration transgressed the law. Yet, they remain unindicted for... Read more >

Act of Congress
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-70016-2 (0-307-70016-X)

An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.

The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken—as... Read more >

Grace and Grit
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88794-8 (0-307-88794-4)

Lilly Ledbetter has achieved national renown as the woman behind the historic Ledbetter vs. Goodyear employment discrimination case, and President Barack Obama’s Fair Pay Restoration Act. In Grace and Grit, she recounts her full life story, delineating how her past experiences shaped her eventual embrace of activism. Born in the small... Read more >

The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine

Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37884-2 (0-307-37884-5)

Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of crime... Read more >