Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...

Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?

This book is thus a wake-up call for European-descended restorative justice practitioners as it is validating for Indigenous practitioners and practitioners of color and enlightening for anyone wishing to explore the intersections of indigeneity, racial justice, and restorative justice...

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...

Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....

McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...

Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?

Mayeux explores the rise, both in the idea and practice, of the public defender throughout the 20th century...

Rancor reigns in American politics. It is possible these days to regard politics as an arena that enriches and ennobles?

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...

Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases...

Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

Lapavitsas contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts...

Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....

Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....

Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

Can we make democracy work? Really work?

Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...

How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?

In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....