The author of Slaughterhouse Five and Jailbird jumps back and forth from the afterlife to interview Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, William Shakespeare, and his own character, Kilgore Trout, in thi
La primera edición de las cartas del Che Guevara, la mayoría nunca antes publicadas en inglés."El Che no era solamente un intelectual, era el ser humano más completo de nuestra época." -- Jean Paul Sa
“It’s an informative and entertaining read for kids of all parents, straight or queer. And, hey, even if your kids were conceived the old-fashioned way, they should know not everyone was—and why.”—Que
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century's greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communit
Bestselling novelist (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and children's (The Tia Lola Stories) author Julia Alvarez's new picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addr
Praise for Lee Stringer:“[In Grand Central Winter] Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born of pain but delivered with style and heart.”—J
"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franc
In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the university of language. "Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic. One can rea
A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank lays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassro
In Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students - among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform - were shot dead in a bloody showdown w
Greg Palast, one of today’s most celebrated (and vilified) investigative journalists, creates 54 cards to identify the industry moguls, corrupt politicos, and crackpot ideologues who stole t
En Medellain, Colombia, in the 1980s, Rosario Tijeras, who was hit by a bullet just as she got her first kiss, follows her brother into the violent world of the drug gangs.
They met in 1949 when Art Shay was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with his camera, gathering pictures for a photo essay he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn't pick up the piece
The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, not only because the US military was implicated in institutionalized torture, but also because women were seen as likely perpetrators
Having set out the problem of civilization in the first volume, environmentalist Jensen here suggests what to do about it. Among his perspectives are identification, dams, psychopathology, fewer than
