Social Science:

Raskols
The Gangs of Papua New Guinea
Written by Stephen Dupont
Contribution by Ben Bohane

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $30.00

Beautiful black-and-white portraits of Papua New Guinea's most fearsome gangsters, brigands, thieves, and carjackers posing with their arsenal of homemade guns and knives.

Papua New Guinea: A land of striking beauty, mountain ranges, lush rainforests, and some of the most spectacular coastlines on earth. A land with over eight hundred unique tribes... Read more >

TEN KEYS LAT AMER V312

Written by Frank Tannenbaum

Format: eBook, 180 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99

"A solid background review of contemporary Latin America by an expert who has spent forty years during the region and writing and lecturing about it."
- Foreign Policy Association

"Anything Frank Tannenbaum writes about Latin America is required reading."
- Rex. D. Hopper, American Sociological Review  

"Professor Tannenbaum has given us ten keys... Read more >

The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Written by Catherine J. Allen

Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95

This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses... Read more >

Covering
The Hidden assault on American Civil Rights
Written by Kenji Yoshino

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $11.99

In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.

Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because... Read more >

African Folktales

Written by Roger Abrahams

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2011
Price: $14.99

Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms.


From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >

Bacalaitos and Fireworks

Contribution by Miguel Algarin and Lois Elaine Griffith
Photographed by Arlene Gottfried

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $39.95

New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with... Read more >

Bound Feet & Western Dress
A Memoir
Written by Pang-Mei Chang

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $13.99

"In China, a woman is nothing."

Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall... Read more >

Havana Dreams
A Story of a Cuban Family
Written by Wendy Gimbel

Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2011
Price: $11.99

A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century.

"When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel in her prologue, "I listen to stories about families, sensing in their contours the substance... Read more >

The Arab World

Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2011
Price: $14.99

In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and... Read more >

Hearts and Hands
Creating Community in Violent Times
Written by Luis Rodriguez

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95

Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He... Read more >

Father Land

Text by Vahe Oshagan
Photographed by Ara Oshagan

Format: Hardcover, 156 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $45.00

When is a city born? When does it mature? When does it acquire an identity? There is just one answer to all three questions: when it looks death in the eye.

This is a land of myths and traditions, where people do not die but, rather, are transformed into legends... Read more >

By the Lake of Sleeping Children

Written by Luis Urrea

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $13.99

By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico... Read more >

Guests of the Sheik
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2010
Price: $16.99

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.


From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >

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 >

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 >

Revealing Mexico

Text by Susanne Steines
Contribution by Carlos Fuentes
Photographed by John Mack
Introduction by Teresa del Conde

Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $75.00

In 2010, Mexico observes two important anniversaries: the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution. These two milestones offer the country’s 111 million citizens and 30 million Mexican Americans an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover and celebrate their shared heritage. Revealing Mexico by John Mack and... Read more >

Jew Today

Written by Elie Wiesel

Format: eBook, 260 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $9.99

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters and diary entries, weaving together all the periods of the author's life -- from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, New York -- Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes... Read more >

Family Sentence
The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
Written by Jeanine Cornillot

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00

Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out... Read more >

Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
 
Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the... Read more >

When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
Written by Timothy Black

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $16.95

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.

At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are... Read more >

Las Mamis
Escritores latinos recuerdan a sus madres
Edited by Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2010
Price: $9.99

A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers.

The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent a cross section of Latino life and culture. They come from rich families in the big cities of Latin America, from rural... Read more >

Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $26.00

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
 
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of... Read more >

Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $11.99

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
 
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of... Read more >

Sound Kapital

Supplement by Yuli Chen
Photographed by Matthew Niederhauser
Introduction by Chairman Ca

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $24.95

China exists today in a liminal realm, caught between the socialist idealism of old and a calamitous drive for wealth spurned by recent free-market reforms. This seemingly unbridgeable gap tears at the country’s social fabric while provoking younger generations to greater artistic heights. The unique sound emerging from Beijing’s underground delves deeply into this void, aggressively questioning... Read more >

Growing Up Global
Raising Children to Be At Home in the World
Written by Homa Sabet Tavangar

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, Homa Sabet Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. In Growing Up Global, Tavangar shares... Read more >