Public Policy
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$19.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123508
- Language: English
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In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
$19.95 Add to cartOne of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
Featured on the New York Times’ The Daily podcast and CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria GPS
What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must d- Author: Macedo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0691267146
- Language: English
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Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026
$18.95 Read moreLiberties features the world’s sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection of writing about today worth rereading tomorrow.
In the Spring 2026 issue, Micha… [more below]
- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992201024
- Language: English
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Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet
$21.95 Read moreAn urgent warning about the financialization of nature and the quiet rise of corporate control over the planet’s resources
Most agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on- Author: Barlow, Maude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1770418660
- Language: English
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
$19.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 – THE WASHINGTON POST‘S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 – THE ATLANTIC‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 – THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S BEST BOOKS OF… [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Haley Cohen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1668017156
- Language: English
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Public Startup: How America’s Least Likely Government Program Became Its Boldest Experiment
$14.99 Add to cartPublic Startup is a work of narrative nonfiction that explores how American government, particularly Medicaid, can function as a platform for innovation rather than an obstacle to progress. Drawing on
- Author: Cogle, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1965121438
- Language: English
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
$19.00 Add to cartAn uproarious and “utterly charming” (The Washington Post) 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… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Stephen Starring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1668018055
- Language: English
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How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy
$19.95 Read moreThe promise of the ‘new economy’ gone, we have regressed into the age of techno-feudalism
The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. T- Author: Durand, Cédric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429439X
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Add to cartWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age
$31.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America…
Millions of people are affe- Author: Markee, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891675
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing mo- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Widerquist, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546892
- Language: English
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Atlas of Cities
$49.50 Add to cartA unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to thre- Author: Knox, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0691157812
- 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
$20.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller – Recommended by Financial Times as “What to Read in 2025”
“The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem–that the greenback’s pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might pla- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Rogoff, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0300292287
- Language: English
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We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare
$30.00 Add to cartTake control of your healthcare and understand the rights that protect you.
In America, it’s hard enough to stay healthy, but it’s doubly brutal when your care and your outcome hinge on one question:
- Author: Zachary, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1394381336
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Add to cartA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
“It’s a rare person who won’t find something of interest in The Works, whether it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change
$27.95 Add to cartHow we can challenge social injustice–with data and humanity
The American legal system does not offer equal justice to all; we can see obvious racial disparities in sentencing, policing, and incarcer- Author: Topaz, Chad M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0691276153
- Language: English
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition
$17.95 Add to cartNow in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple.
“A classic for our times. It is a- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 9798216390701
- Language: English
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Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves
$34.95 Add to cartA radical reframing of the current global food system to address injustices and existential threats
The global food system stands at a critical juncture. Food production is among the largest causes of
- Author: Negowetti, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1647126479
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$30.00 Read moreIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior
“Illuminating…Wils- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548117
- Language: English
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
$24.95 Read moreHow oil greases the wheels of global capitalism
This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic nar- Author: Hanieh, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1839763434
- Language: English
