American Privacy
The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right
Written by Frederick S. Lane

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2009
Price: $20.00

An examination of privacy and the evolution of communication, from broken sealing wax to high-tech wiretapping

A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and even today’s fiber-optic cables, American Privacy traces the lineage of cultural norms and legal mandates that have swirled... Read more >

What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business, Revised and Updated Editio
The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (And a Few Truths)
Written by Peter M. Thall

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2010
Price: $19.99

Bad news: The music business is packed with hidden agendas. Good news: There’s one indispensable guide that helps songwriters, musicians, executives, lawyers, and managers understand the music business and travel its shark-infested waters safely and confidently. What They’ll Never Tell You About the Music Business sold more than 20,000 copies in... Read more >

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
Written by Carole Joffe

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Price: $14.00

Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access
 
More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how... Read more >

Mr. President
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
Written by Ray Raphael

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99

The little-known story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.
 
On June 1, 1787, when the Federal Convention first talked of establishing a new executive branch, James Wilson moved that “the Executive consist of... Read more >

Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99

• Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
 
• Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
 
• Scores of laid-off San...

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Founding Faith
Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Written by Steven Waldman

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $12.99

The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to...

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No Pity
People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Written by Joseph P. Shapiro

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $14.99

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.


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Illegal People
How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
Written by David Bacon

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Price: $18.00

For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy... Read more >

No Heroes, No Villains

Written by Steven J. Phillips

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Price: $11.99

On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson had a gun, and... Read more >

Not Your Mother's Divorce
A Practical, Girlfriend-to-Girlfriend Guide to Surviving the End of a Young Marriage
Written by Kay Moffett and Sarah Touborg

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2010
Price: $16.99

No matter what your age, divorce is one of life’s greatest challenges. But while your parents, friends, and lawyers may be chock-full of advice, the truth is that young women who divorce today face a brand-new set of issues and possibilities far removed from those of women a generation before. If... Read more >