Public Policy
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Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
$29.00 Add to cartA lively and engrossing cultural history of the avocado and the people who transformed it into an American obsession
“Whether you’re a history buff or just enjoy a chip full of guacamole, you’ll be t- Author: Allaback, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096760
- Language: English
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
$35.00 Add to cartA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached to- Author: Rogoff, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275315
- Language: English
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Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
$22.95 Add to cartA pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis–featuring a new preface by the author.
“Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more tha
- Author: T??w?, Ol?fẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903698
- Language: English
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.
Humanity has cleared a l- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1982160071
- Language: English
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The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School Funding
$24.95 Add to cart“An essential addition to any library’s collection, particularly those focusing on education policy or social justice. Its relevance extends beyond New Hampshire, addressing issues that affect schools… [more below]
- Author: Volinsky, Andru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1942155905
- Language: English
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Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History
$34.95 Add to cartFrom city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate dea
- Author: Garodnick, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754378
- Language: English
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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
$24.95 Add to cart“Comes at a perfect time for our collective rethinking of how society can, and must, be reorganized so that all life can flourish” Marina Sitrin, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University
“T
- Series: The Fireworks
- Author: Finley, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745346901
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$24.00 Add to cartThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
“Riveting.”–Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journa- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281935
- Language: English
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Why Government Is the Problem
$5.00 Add to cartFriedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by “we, the people.” Instead of Lincoln’s government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” we now have a government “o… [more below]
- Series: Essays in Public Policy
- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 18
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0817954422
- Language: English
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The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones
$27.00 Add to cartA road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood–by a leading tech policy expert
It’s no secret that addictive digita- Author: Morell, Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 059373629X
- Language: English
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Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City
$32.99 Add to cartFormer Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local go
- Author: Miner, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638288
- Language: English
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant new voice in science writing–“witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best” (Mary Roach)–shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science
Why would anyone research how elephants p- Author: York, Carly Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605217
- Language: English
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet
$30.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end
- Author: Marvel, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63241536
- Language: English
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Gun Violence 101: A Graphic Guide to How Gun Safety Policies Save Lives
$22.00 Add to cartDid you know that gun violence is the #1 cause of death among America’s children and teens and that guns in the home are far more likely to be used in killing family members than intruders?
Gun Violen
- Author: Gabor, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1684817463
- Language: English
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Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
$29.00 Add to cartTeacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the 10th U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives.
The story of John B. King Jr.’s- Author: King, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 153875777X
- Language: English
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
$27.99 Add to cartPer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there.
What stories could I unravel from the … [more below]
- Author: Goh, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 196310823X
- Language: English
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My Side of the River: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editor’s Pick
“My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border w
A People Magazine Best Book to Read in February
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2024- Author: Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250817420
- Language: English
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Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
$32.00 Read moreThis is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS–a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of–poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contam… [more below]
- Author: Udasin, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833320
- Language: English
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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
$29.99 Add to cartA timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous ef
- Author: Greenwell, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0063299356
- Language: English
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The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
$29.95 Add to cartFinance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer- Author: McCarthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1788730666
- Language: English
