Public Policy
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
$32.00 Add to cartA tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renter- Author: Tarleton, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017809
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$19.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental g- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297083
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250342732
- Language: English
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What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartA vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris–“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacie… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0316577413
- Language: English
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Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy
$18.95 Add to cartA profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy
In Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose
- Author: Brownell, Ginanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1965278116
- Language: English
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The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change
$19.95 Read moreIn an age of climate catastrophes and extinction, we need to turn back to nature and learn, once again, how to live sustainably on planet Earth–beginning with our relationship to food.
Four billion y
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022870
- Language: English
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Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It
$29.95 Add to cartRenowned ethicist provides essential guide to successfully navigating the future AI landscape
In Building a God, Christopher DiCarlo explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence surpas
- Author: Dicarlo, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1493085883
- Language: English
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True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
$24.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
In True Wealth, economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sa
- Author: Schor, Juliet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119427
- Language: English
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Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway
$27.95 Add to cartA summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm–and learns far more than how to herd sheep
In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of yste- Author: Greensfelder, Liese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917662
- Language: English
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Spirits Distilled: A Guide to the Ingredients Behind a Better Bottle
$34.95 Read moreDo you know what’s in your drink? Which grains go into your favorite Bourbon? What makes an artisanal Tequila? Or why molasses-based rum is so different in flavor from its sugarcane juice counterpart?
- Author: Harry, Nat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1958510017
- Language: English
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
$22.95 Read moreCo-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
Rubbing two st
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263515
- Language: English
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Carbon: The Book of Life
$28.00 Add to cartA journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living w- Author: Hawken, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525427449
- Language: English
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be
$18.00 Add to cartProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a d
- Author: West, Marcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656835
- Language: English
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
$35.00 Add to cartReal-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems–from housing to retirement to drug addiction–based on original reporting from around the world
A new generation of Americans has declared
- Author: Hakimi Zapata, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 162097844X
- Language: English
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Democracy and Urban Form
$27.95 Read moreIf discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 191560947X
- Language: English
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world–and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.
How we live is shaped b- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368191
- Language: English
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
$28.00 Add to cartAn inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time, that frames the challenges we face as a society and–with grace, generosity, and
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1954118686
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$30.00 Add to cartThrough the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend–the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America
The- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593237145
- Language: English
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Abundance
$30.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling authors and journalistic titans, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in syst… [more below]
- Author: Klein, Ezra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668023482
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$44.95 Add to cartInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic re- Author: Gelinas, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508219
- Language: English
