Public Policy
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of N- Author: Geithner, Timothy F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0804138613
- Language: English
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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age
$25.00 Add to cartIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-ri
- Series: Contending Modernities
- Author: Ritchie, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0268105782
- Language: English
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Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
$17.95 Add to cartA London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this “discovery,” a handful of parents declared that a
- Author: Offit, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2010
- ISBN10: 023114637X
- Language: English
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Many Ways to Be
$8.99 Read moreWe all do things in the way that works best for us. Learn with Sesame Street how to listen to our bodies and give them the tools they need.
- Series: Sesame Street (R) Celebrating You and Me
- Author: Peterson, Christy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728463734
- Language: English
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The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital
$22.00 Add to cartThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, und
- Author: Pérez Orozco, Amaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173199
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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Meander: Making Room for Rivers
$19.95 Add to cartDraws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Wooster, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1438484682
- Language: English
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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
$30.00 Read moreA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 154175087X
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
$20.00 Add to cartA young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it–and his new neighborhood–to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meanin… [more below]
- Author: Philp, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1476797994
- Language: English
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Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
$29.95 Read moreA harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.
A race is on to exploit- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Pollon, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649127
- Language: English
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Fixing America
$33.99 Add to cartHave you been wondering about the big issues dominating the news? Is climate change a massive threat or not? What is really going on with immigration? More importantly, how did American politics becom
- Author: Taggart, William M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1954779879
- Language: English
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Walking in Daniel’s Shoes
$14.99 Add to cartA father’s journey through grief, controversy, activism and healing following his son’s death in the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The book describes the experiences of Tom Maus… [more below]
- Author: Mauser, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: April 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0985302119
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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Eradicating Ecocide 2nd Edition: Laws and Governance to Stop the Destruction of the Planet
$22.95 Read moreIn Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and gover
- Author: Higgins, Polly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0856835080
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$46.58 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 801474450
- Language: English
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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
$27.00 Add to cartWelcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn’t exist…Now with updated material for the paperback edition.
This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through- Author: Paglen, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0451229169
- Language: English
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis #0
- Author: Nelson, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0393091732
- Language: English
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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
$19.99 Add to cartThe former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended
- Author: Garten, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062887688
- Language: English
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The Party Is Over: The New Louisiana Politics
$39.95 Add to cartFor decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental chall
- Author: Maloyed, Christie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176583
- Language: English
