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  • Rethinking Private Higher Education

    by Daniele Cantini
    In-depth ethnographic studies of universities as rapidly evolving, key contemporary institutions, interrogating in particular the fast-growing private sector

  • Rethinking Camelot

    by Noam Chomsky
    Explores JFK’s role in US invasion of Vietnam and a reflects on the political culture that encouraged the Cold War.

  • Responses to Marx's Capital

    The essential collection of early documents—most translated for the first time—responding to Karl Marx’s Capital

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    by Betsy Hartmann
    With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.

  • The Reproductive Bargain

    by Heidi Gottfried
    An insightful analysis of gender relations’ role in the Japanese economy’s transition from unstoppable growth to inescapable stagnation.

  • Repair

    by Katherine Franke

    A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.

  • Reminiscences of Lenin

    by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya
    A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.

  • Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East

    by Stuart A. Karabenick and Mansoor Moaddel
    Moaddel and Karabenick analyze fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes across nations, faith, and ethnicity, using comparative survey data.

  • Religion and the New Atheism

    Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam
    Scholars from a diverse array of disciplines critically appraise the intellectual fad championed by Richard Dawkins and his co-thinkers.

  • Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism

    Edited by John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring
    Though far from a 'post-racial' society, the form of race and racism in the U.S. has changed over the years.

  • Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

    by Martyn Ives
    In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.

  • Red Sky in the Morning

    by Elizabeth Laird
    A moving narrative about a young girl's experience with disability, loss, and the power of unconditional love.

  • Red Petrograd

    by S. A. Smith
    A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia’s revolutionary year.

  • Red October

    by Jeffery R. Webber
    Using extensive field data from hundreds of interviews, Webber surveys the origins of Bolivia's revolutionary wave of 2000 to 2005.

  • The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • Recovering the Sacred

    by Winona LaDuke
    Only the power to define what is sacred—and access it—will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.

  • Reading Revolution

    by Ashwin Desai
    Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.

  • Reading Gramsci

    by Francisco Fernández Buey
    An illuminating and original collection of essays by Spain’s most famous Gramsci scholar, translated to English for the first time.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Rank and File

    by Alice and Staughton Lynd
    The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s—1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Radical Unionism

    by Ralph Darlington
    Though often seen as opposing ideas, Darlington engagingly traces the entwined legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.

  • Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by Rodney D. Coates
    Scholars dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity today.

  • Prophets Unarmed

    Edited by Gregor Benton
    Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.