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From a renowned activist and author, a powerful expose of how the tipping system has been used to exploit immigrant workers.

The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students.

A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot US democracy.

A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever.

A groundbreaking expose about the use of rap lyrics to convict and incarcerate young men of colour.

A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for 'socialism, American style'.

A former FBI undercover agent and whistleblower gives us a riveting and troubling account of the contemporary FBI.

A well-known veteran DC insider shows how the left can undo the right's damage and take America back.

A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and...a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country's constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism.The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department's "charm school” and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest—from protocols about seating, salutations, and embassy security to what to do when the deposed King of Greece hands you a small chocolate crown (eat it, of course!). A cross between a foreign policy memoir and an inspiring personal family story—her immigrant Greek father went from agricultural day laborer to land developer and major Democratic party activist—Madam Ambassador draws back the curtain on what it is like to represent the U.S. government abroad as well as how American embassies around the world function.

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used measure of economic activity-is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures.Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societies-considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a "green GDP." At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.

The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins" - who gave ideological cover for the war.

This odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born.