Do you appreciate your forty-hour five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power unions help to spread the benefits of production throughout a society. Regardless of the state of the economy there is the timeless struggle of workers trying to gain or retain their rights. However a vast amount of Americans (including un...

"Poised to inspire a new generation of naturalists." - Publishers WeeklyA vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoirRegarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty. His memoir Naturalist, called “one of the finest sci...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019An Orbis Picture Recommended Title“An outstanding case study in how science is actually done: funny, nuanced, and perceptive.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Join early scientists as they piece together one of humanity’s greatest puzzles—the fossilized bones of the first dinosaur!Dinosaurs existed. That’s a fact we accept today...

"[An] action-packed Civil War title . . . a rousing introduction to this defining conflict that makes the history appealing and relatable." — Publishers WeeklyAn International Literacy Association Teachers' ChoiceA National Parenting Publications Silver WinnerHistory comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the American Civil War that's perfect for history buffs and ...

The Sun Also Rises (1926) is Hemingway's defining portrait of the postwar "Lost Generation," following Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, and their expatriate circle from Parisian cafés to the bullfights of Pamplona. Its surface is spare, ironic, and conversational, yet beneath the famous minimalist style lies a profound meditation on wounded masculinity, frustrated desire, ritual, and moral dislocation after World War I. The novel's modernist technique—elliptical dialogue, restraint, and sym...

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, showcases his distinctive humor in taking on the political landscape in his fight to fix America—before it’s too late.As the most important presidential election in our history looms, ask yourself: Are America’s finances in better shape than they were four years ago? Or are we still BROKE?THE FACTS.

Newly updated: "An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history." — The American ProspectPraised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Sil...

"An intelligent critique of the contemporary plight of the middle class" ( Publishers Weekly)."I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom's great work, it helps show us the way forward...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening**, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.****"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” —**Los Angeles TimesWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on ...

Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion eng...

From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only re...

An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions i...