57 books in Social Science - Emigration & Immigration
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The Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
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The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and values are at risk of being... Read more >
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and values are at risk of being... Read more >
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The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and values are at risk of being... Read more >
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and values are at risk of being... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Written by Erin Siegal
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $16.00
The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother
Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true... Read more >
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Written by Erin Siegal
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $16.00
The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother
Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true... Read more >
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The Other Side: Growing up Italian in America
Written by Vincent Panella
Format: eBook, 189 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American experience: its cloying love, intense frugality, obsession with security, and its strong... Read more >
Written by Vincent Panella
Format: eBook, 189 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American experience: its cloying love, intense frugality, obsession with security, and its strong... Read more >
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Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today.
For the first time in history, there are now more people in the world living...
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The Boys from Little Mexico
A Season Chasing the American Dream
Written by Steve Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $16.00
A Season Chasing the American Dream
Written by Steve Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $16.00
For nineteen straight years, the all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from Oregon’s Woodburn High has made the playoffs. As they prepare to make it twenty, one thing will become clear: Los Perros play the beautiful game with heart, pride, and their lives on the line. Their spirited drive gives a rare sense...
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Toward A Better Life
America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words From Ellis Island to the Present
Written by Peter Morton Coan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $12.99
Immigrants comprise nearly a quarter of the US population, a larger proportion than at any time since World War II. Of those, more than 10 percent are here illegally, and many more try to enter the country and fail. What motivates so many people to take great risks to come to... Read more >
America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words From Ellis Island to the Present
Written by Peter Morton Coan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $12.99
Immigrants comprise nearly a quarter of the US population, a larger proportion than at any time since World War II. Of those, more than 10 percent are here illegally, and many more try to enter the country and fail. What motivates so many people to take great risks to come to... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER
HEARTLAND AWARD... Read more >
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER
HEARTLAND AWARD... Read more >
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Toward A Better Life
America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words From Ellis Island to the Present
Written by Peter Morton Coan
Format: Hardcover, 379 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
Immigrants comprise nearly a quarter of the US population, a larger proportion than at any time since World War II. Of those, more than 10 percent are here illegally, and many more try to enter the country and fail. What motivates so many people to take great risks to come to... Read more >
America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words From Ellis Island to the Present
Written by Peter Morton Coan
Format: Hardcover, 379 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
Immigrants comprise nearly a quarter of the US population, a larger proportion than at any time since World War II. Of those, more than 10 percent are here illegally, and many more try to enter the country and fail. What motivates so many people to take great risks to come to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $25.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $25.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an airport shuttle-bus driver... Read more >
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an airport shuttle-bus driver... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Land of Desire
Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Written by William R. Leach
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2011
Price: $14.99
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Written by William R. Leach
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2011
Price: $14.99
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Somalis in Maine
Crossing Cultural Currents
Afterword by Ahmed I. Samatar
Edited by Kimberly A. Huisman, Mazie Hough, Kristin M. Langellier and Carol Nordstrom Toner
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $27.95
Lewiston, a mill town of about thirty-six thousand people, is the second-largest city in Maine. It is also home to some three thousand Somali refugees. After initially being resettled in larger cities elsewhere, Somalis began to arrive in Lewiston by the dozens, then the hundreds, after hearing stories of Maine’s attractions... Read more >
Crossing Cultural Currents
Afterword by Ahmed I. Samatar
Edited by Kimberly A. Huisman, Mazie Hough, Kristin M. Langellier and Carol Nordstrom Toner
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $27.95
Lewiston, a mill town of about thirty-six thousand people, is the second-largest city in Maine. It is also home to some three thousand Somali refugees. After initially being resettled in larger cities elsewhere, Somalis began to arrive in Lewiston by the dozens, then the hundreds, after hearing stories of Maine’s attractions... Read more >
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Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $18.00
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures. In Medicine in Translation... Read more >
Journeys with My Patients
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $18.00
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures. In Medicine in Translation... Read more >
Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Look around: the largest migration in human history is under way. For the first time ever, more people are living in cities than in rural areas. Between 2007 and 2050, the world’s cities will have absorbed 3.1 billion people. Urbanization is the mass movement that will change our world during the...
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trade paperback.
Between the Fences
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
the immigrant suite
hey xenophobe! Who you calling foreigner?
Written by Hattie Gossett
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, she questions why so many... Read more >
hey xenophobe! Who you calling foreigner?
Written by Hattie Gossett
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, she questions why so many... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Across the Wire
Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
Written by Luis Urrea
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $12.99
Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
Written by Luis Urrea
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $12.99
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a...
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The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $16.95
This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.
Europe’s half century of mass immigration has failed to produce an American melting pot and is now faced with a serious problem for which there is no easy solution. Based on... Read more >
Immigration, Islam and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $16.95
This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.
Europe’s half century of mass immigration has failed to produce an American melting pot and is now faced with a serious problem for which there is no easy solution. Based on... Read more >
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Between the Fences
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Translating America
An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920
Written by Peter Conolly-Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World... Read more >
An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920
Written by Peter Conolly-Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World... Read more >
