Public Policy
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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
$30.00 Add to cartWho works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.
The government is a vast, complex system that Amer- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Attach? Case: Backstage at the Embassy
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Pierce, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1943444420
- Language: English
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From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World
$30.00 Read moreAccelerate your real-world, social impact by driving systemic policy changes
As Co-Founder of Global Citizen–an international education and advocacy organization with the mission to end extreme pover
- Author: Sheldrick, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1394202342
- Language: English
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Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World
$32.00 Add to cartFor most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort–long hours of teaching,… [more below]
- Author: Sawin, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833770
- Language: English
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The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs
$28.95 Read moreThe liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation … [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762076
- Language: English
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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
$19.99 Read moreLibrary of Science Book Club selection
“A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles T
Discover magazine “What to Read” selection- Author: Ellard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1942658001
- Language: English
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
$78.00 Add to cartAnthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of … [more below]
- Author: Wondrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0199311137
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Add to cartThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science
$29.99 Add to cartAI isn’t magic. How AI Works demystifies the explosion of artificial intelligence by explaining–without a single mathematical equation–what happened, when it happened, why it happened, how it happen… [more below]
- Author: Kneusel, Ronald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1718503725
- Language: English
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refriger
- Author: Brende, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060570059
- Language: English
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Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
$19.00 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Most Ancitipated Book of Spring 2025
A bold call to abandon the myth of endless economic growth and embrace a sustainable, just, and thriving future.
One of the most deeply ingraine
- Author: Parrique, Timothée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661016
- Language: English
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Medicare Mama’s Guide to Medicare and Social Security Retirement
$24.99 Add to cartMedicare Mama’s Guide to Medicare and Social Security Retirement
2025 MEDICARE & SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES, INCLUDING IRMAA, PART D, AND RETIREMENT STRATEGIES
With over 1 million social media followers w
- Author: Gordon, Sylvia A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992214000
- Language: English
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On Oil
$15.95 Add to cartA journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.
Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening
- Series: Field Notes #10
- Author: Gillmor, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 177196667X
- Language: English
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Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
$30.00 Add to cartFrom political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-b… [more below]
- Author: Reich, Robert B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803280
- Language: English
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Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI–as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children… [more below]
- Author: Kai, de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 262049767
- Language: English
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Leading with My Glass Half Full
$19.95 Add to cartWith his glass half full and strong sense of optimism, Peter Crichton tells the remarkable story of his unique leadership journey in local government and public service. Through his story and those of
- Author: Crichton, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893152463
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016772
- Language: English
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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 Add to cart“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
