A riveting story set in the hemispheric crossroads between Panama and Colombia, journalist Belén Fernández’s "The Darién Gap" reports on the inhospitable journey migrants and refuge seekers endure for a chance at a better life in... Read More

In "Law and Order Leviathan", David Garland advocates for a holistic approach to understanding and fixing American penal policy. Garland begins his measured and stinging analysis of American penal policy with an overview of the police... Read More

In 2022, journalist Dom Phillips was murdered while reporting on environmental crimes in Brazil’s Javari Valley, killed by some of the same criminals destroying the Amazon rainforest. His friends and colleagues completed his... Read More

Unflinching condemnations of past wrongdoings combine with critiques of contemporary missteps by those in power in the assertive political science critique "Surviving Canadian Chaos". Geneviève Gagné and Richard Girard’s bilingual... Read More

Active, engaging, and encyclopedic, the political science text "Rome and America" compares and contrasts two great nations. A grand historical analysis of the similarities between ancient Rome’s republican period and the United States... Read More

"Arctic Passages" is Kieran Mulvaney’s comprehensive study of one of the world’s most mysterious and significant geopolitical flashpoints. Taking a nonlinear approach to the human history of the Arctic, the book dedicates as much... Read More

The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit’s "No Straight Road Takes You There" name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope. Writing after the 2020 election, at a time when many on the left implored... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More