Public Policy
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$31.18 Read moreOne 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 520384490
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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Housing Humans
$22.99 Add to cartEmpathetic and excellent advice from one of our nation’s leading Housing Authority experts, having served in leadership roles across eight major U.S. cities and one in Canada. In his book, Housing Hum
- Author: Jones, Eugene E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1735778117
- Language: English
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Marijuana: A Short History
$36.58 Add to cartFrom “Reefer Madness” to legal purchase at the corner store
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and infor
- Series: Short Histories
- Author: Hudak, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0815738315
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
$30.00 Read moreAn authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted
“Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington’- Author: Prestowitz, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300248490
- Language: English
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Postville U.S.A.
$14.95 Add to cartPostville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town’s experimen… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848646
- Language: English
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UNESCO: Facsimile of French and English Editions
$14.99 Add to cartUNESCO was created “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science, and culture.” No one spoke with greater authority about the plan for UN
- Author: Huxley, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1906267014
- Language: English
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The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
$15.95 Add to cartMyron Magnet’s The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today’s underclass-overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority… [more below]
- Author: Magnet, Mryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554023
- Language: English
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever alter… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1476747776
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization
$20.00 Add to cartHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternativ… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Mary N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173717
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war–and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises–from Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
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Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915
$19.95 Add to cartAn in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
- Author: Harring, Sidney L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468542
- Language: English
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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
$20.95 Add to cartThe United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy th
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Posen, Barry R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1501700723
- Language: English
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The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait
$22.00 Add to cartA timeless resource that describes the evolution of the US military in the first half of the 20th century.More than 50 years after its publication, The Professional Soldier remains a path-breaking stu… [more below]
- Author: Janowitz, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1501179322
- Language: English
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What Are Animal Rights For?
$13.95 Add to cartHow should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize,… [more below]
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Cooke, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1529228417
- Language: English
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The Case for Open Borders
$19.95 Add to cartA beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.
Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders fo… [more below]- Author: Washington, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900727
- Language: English
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It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what trans… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593238737
- Language: English
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Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis
$16.00 Add to cartPresident Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state, warning that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion.
In Our Endangered- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0743285018
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$22.95 Add to cartThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geop
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 023118848X
- Language: English
