Public Policy
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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
$30.00 Add to cartBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.
A globe shows the world we think- Author: Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0593329856
- Language: English
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Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
$29.95 Read more“Tad DeLay is one of the most important and disquieting theorists of consciousness and politics writing today. His work is indispensable.”
Capitalism is an ecocidal
–China Mi?ville, author of October- Author: Delay, Tad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1839765437
- Language: English
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
$25.95 Read moreChinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, even threatening the use of force. An invasion or blockade of Taiwan by Chinese forces would be catastro
- Author: Pottinger, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0817926453
- Language: English
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
$29.95 Add to cartInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1595801278
- Language: English
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Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing
$22.95 Add to cartHow to make American higher education fairer
In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The wides- Series: Our Compelling Interests #7
- Author: Krislov, Marvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691246769
- Language: English
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Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
$29.95 Read moreHow does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how the… [more below]
- Author: Weizman, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297100
- Language: English
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Arms and Influence
$20.00 Add to cart“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”–Gordon … [more below]
- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Schelling, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246749
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics Volume 78
$37.43 Add to cart“A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it’s never too late.”—New York Times
Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowne- Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
- Author: Nestle, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520384156
- Language: English
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1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World
$18.99 Add to cartJoin journalist Devi Lockwood on this “monumental achievement” (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought,… [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, Devi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1982146737
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything–And Endangered the World
$32.65 Read moreFinalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environmen- Author: Zuckerman, Jocelyn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975238
- Language: English
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In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio
$34.95 Add to cartIn the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1595349227
- Language: English
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the Us Child Protection System
$19.00 Read moreAnalyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
- Author: Lash, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467430
- Language: English
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Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These base… [more below]
- Author: Vine David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1510728813
- Language: English
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
$19.99 Add to cart“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and…wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 147677787X
- Language: English
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Paid to Piss People Off: Book 3 PRAYER: Book 3 PRAYER
$20.00 Add to cartIn this 3rd book of his three-volume memoir, Barry W. Lynn recounts twenty-five years working against the top leaders of the Religious Right on issues including school prayer, prayer in public places,
- Author: Lynn, Barry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 195872811X
- Language: English
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
$29.95 Add to cart“Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”
Why the market will never solve the
–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292303
- Language: English
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Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the Pill Mill Killer
$29.95 Read moreAn obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opioid epidemic’s longest term for illegal prescriptions — four life sentences
Written in the tradition- Author: Eil, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1586423827
- Language: English
