Public Policy
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What Are Museums For?
$13.95 Add to cartThe days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on d
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Sleigh, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1529231396
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism
$29.95 Read more“This readable and important book makes a strong case that the received version of economic history taught in high schools and colleges across the country is off the mark and that its errors distort c… [more below]
- Author: Gramm, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881808365
- Language: English
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
$29.99 Add to cartAn exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, a… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Stephen Starring
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668018047
- Language: English
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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
$30.00 Add to cart“The Fort Bragg Cartel opens like a nonfiction thriller and never lets up. A page-turning investigation into the dark side of our forever wars.”
–Steve Coll, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Ghost War… [more below]- Author: Harp, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593655087
- Language: English
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The Catalysts: The Accelerating Forces Forging the New World Financial Order
$34.95 Add to cartSince the end of WWII, America has dominated the global economic stage. Not coincidentally, the US dollar has served as the world’s default currency. America has routinely rattled its saber to wage wa
- Author: Wick, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990924208
- Language: English
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Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution’s deadly impact on human health–and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean ai… [more below]
- Author: Pope, C. Arden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551675
- Language: English
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Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care
$22.00 Add to cartA bold rethinking of cancer as a biological phenomenon, an indictment of science that serves capitalism, and a radical vision of liberated health and well-being.
More than fifty years after the declara
- Author: Hasan, Nafis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1945335181
- Language: English
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And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America’s homelessness crisis.
In And Housing for All, founder of the Nationa- Author: Foscarinis, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1633889769
- Language: English
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.
National security may- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674737385
- Language: English
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Phytopolis: The Living City
$24.99 Add to cartA renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming.
The conquest of new lands has been the greatest occupation of ou- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425247
- Language: English
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In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy
$19.95 Add to cart“Of soil and soul…Ms. Brox has restored a lost world.”–Wall Street Journal
A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack
- Series: Nonpareil Books #16
- Author: Brox, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928188
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions
$39.95 Add to cartA searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.
An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of th- Author: Zweig, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 262549158
- Language: English
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The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace
$34.99 Add to cartIn The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer wo… [more below]
- Author: Boyle, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019063586X
- Language: English
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built
$18.00 Add to cartSocial justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searin… [more below]
- Author: Mallory, Tamika D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1982173475
- Language: English
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The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful and heartwarming exploration of cuisine in conflict zones, highlighting the heroic persistence of people struggling to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.… [more below]
- Author: Shaikh, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0593442849
- Language: English
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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
$32.99 Add to cartDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.
In 2016, 1,100
- Author: Boiarsky, Carolyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1612499473
- Language: English
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Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses
$28.99 Add to cartA firsthand account of how Richard Corcoran, former education commissioner of Florida, successfully took on powerful progressive interest groups, broke their monopoly, and paved the way for higher edu… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888458273
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician’s Personal Account
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90,000 in 2020, opioid researchers around the country exp
- Author: Lebaron, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891380431
- Language: English
