Public Policy
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Sky-High: A Critique of Nyc’s Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom
$40.00 Read morePart architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City’s skyline as well as its streets.
New York City’s penchant for- Author: Nash, Eric P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222546
- Language: English
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A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
$18.99 Read moreA winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
Muhammad Yunus, who created- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1541742397
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
$26.95 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical–and accessible–plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in ti… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0385546130
- Language: English
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
$20.00 Read moreA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane
In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In Humane,- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858712
- Language: English
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The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now
$29.00 Read moreAn NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives–and how our country has nearly always failed to put our children first
The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract- Author: Kamenetz, Anya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1541700988
- Language: English
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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The New Technology State: How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares–And What We Can Do about It
$26.95 Read more“Bill Raduchel started at Harvard as my father’s student, assistant, and friend. He went on to a career in technology as the digital revolution unfolded before his eyes. In The New Technology State, h
- Author: Raduchel, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637557469
- Language: English
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
$17.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and form- Author: Philpott, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1635578450
- Language: English
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The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse
$18.95 Read moreAn American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award Winner
A 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and Criminology A 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist- Author: Van Rooij, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007277
- Language: English
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Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All
$32.00 Read moreNamed one of Investopedia’s 7 Best Economics Books of 2022
The trailblazing story of Janet Yellen, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of economics, and her lifelong advocacy for an economics of empathy that deli- Author: Ullmann, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 154170102X
- Language: English
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Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
$22.95 Add to cartIn this passionate and powerful book–part manifesto, part plan of action–the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward… [more below]
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0231184042
- Language: English
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
$27.95 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Bo- Author: Case, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 069119078X
- Language: English
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Cómo Hacer Grandes Cosas / How Big Things Get Done
$23.95 Read moreLos secretos para planificar y llevar a cabo con ?xito proyectos de cualquier envergadura, por el mayor experto munidal en megaproyectos.
Nada es m?s inspirador que una ambiciosa visi?n que se convier… [more below]- Author: Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 8466674241
- Language: Spanish
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Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
$30.00 Read moreA timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan.
In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of- Author: Kesling, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1419751158
- Language: English
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Money for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide
$14.95 Read moreMoney is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn’t it be good to get out of the fog?
This book will help you understand both the way money wo
- Author: Wray, L. Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1509554610
- Language: English
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No Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
$29.00 Read moreNamed one of Mother Jones’ BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022
An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose The pi- Author: Andrews, Becca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1541768396
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America
$18.99 Read moreThe publication of The Once and Future Worker in November 2018 triggered a “vigorous intra-conservative debate” (Ross Douthat, New York Times), widening the schism between the right-of-center establis… [more below]
- Author: Cass, Oren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771046
- Language: English
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The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
$28.99 Read moreFor years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.
In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial
- Author: Roth, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0063081415
- Language: English
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The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice
$35.00 Read moreLee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he wo… [more below]
- Author: Gillam, Carey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1642830569
- Language: English
