Public Policy
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Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In
$21.99 Add to cartThe transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our
- Author: Nussey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1732544646
- Language: English
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Designing Creative Communities: Your Town Is Your Canvas. Learn How To Make Your Mark
$19.99 Add to cartWe all want to be a part of a thriving community. But few of us know how to meaningfully contribute to the places where we live, work, learn and play.
Whether you dream of launching a community innova
- Author: Marshall, Spud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1737638908
- Language: English
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Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War
$35.00 Add to cartFuture Peace urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and is an impassioned plea for peace from an individual who spent decades preparing for war.
Today’s militaries are increasi
- Author: Latiff, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0268201897
- Language: English
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19
$13.00 Read moreA concise history of how American law has shaped–and been shaped by–the experience of contagion, “taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arriv… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261519
- Language: English
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Charmers & Con Artists: And Their Flip Side
$15.00 Add to cartThis is a psychological study of charmers, con artists, and their hidden alter-ego, the abusers — how they got that way, various profile examples, and how to recover from their artistry of killing yo… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1632325950
- Language: English
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There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law and Tradition
$28.99 Add to cartHow can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?
“Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic cycles, the causes of inequality, and our obligations
- Author: Jacobs, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580234259
- Language: English
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397444
- Language: English
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A Denier No More: Leading the Charge for Climate Change
$29.99 Add to cartIn “A Denier No More: Leading the Charge for Climate Change” by David M. Kargbo, readers embark on a riveting and enlightening journey through the profound transformation of an individual’s perspectiv… [more below]
- Author: Kargbo, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989473229
- Language: English
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Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail
$22.95 Read moreObserving its busy stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and Puget Sound without Sound Transit. Or to imagine how close the transportation agency came to folding. Back on Track reveals it
- Author: Wodnik, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0874223695
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$28.95 Read moreA young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming
In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer–the daughter of a forbidden marriage b- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045306
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
$17.95 Add to cartFrom an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financi- Author: Rajan, Raghuram G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0691152632
- Language: English
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On Medicine as Colonialism
$17.95 Add to cartIn this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief.
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- Author: Fine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639907
- Language: English
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Life and Death
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin is the unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women.
In this important work, Dworken gathers essays published between 1987 and 1995,- Author: Dworkin, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0743236262
- Language: English
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Hate Speech
$15.95 Add to cartAn investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.
Hate speech can happen anywhere–in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in kha- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Carlson, Caitlin Ring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 026253990X
- Language: English
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The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business: The Business of Child Care
$21.95 Read moreAs more families shift to both parents working outside the home, the demand for high-quality child care continues to rise, creating ample opportunity for entrepreneurs like you. Now that you’ve identi… [more below]
- Series: The Business of Child Care
- Author: Forestieri, Marnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0876598378
- Language: English
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Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
$29.00 Add to cartA deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City — a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Flo… [more below]- Author: Ariza, Mario Alejandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 154178846X
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a countr
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013720
- Language: English
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A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs, California: Revised and Enlarged Edition
$52.95 Add to cartThis is a revised and enlarged version of A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs. The key chapter on the tragedy of the Section Fourteen so-called “urban holocaust,” when minorities were
- Author: Isetti, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977256481
- Language: English
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The Conversation on Guns
$16.95 Read moreFrom TheConversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States–and possible ways to stop it.
In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group of
- Series: Critical Conversations
- Author: Densley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1421447363
- Language: English
