Public Policy
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island
$23.99 Add to cartBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania perma… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393324699
- Language: English
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Carbon Capture
$16.95 Read moreA concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.
The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 em
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Herzog, Howard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535750
- Language: English
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Theodore Rex
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”–San Francisco Chronicl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966007
- Language: English
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Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically
$15.95 Add to cartEven before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now, in W
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1631498568
- Language: English
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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
$24.95 Read moreA plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a ra- Author: Vettese, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839760311
- Language: English
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
$19.95 Read moreThe Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has become the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, yet most Americans are in the dark about the damage their government’s nuclear obsession h
- Author: Frank, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598283
- Language: English
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Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
$21.99 Add to cartThe preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best–and how we can b
- Author: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797752
- Language: English
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Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care
$24.95 Add to cartA critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.
Within social work–a profession that has b
- Author: Kim, Mimi E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900918
- Language: English
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The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
$19.95 Add to cartFour decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their popu
- Author: Chaney, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750979
- Language: English
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Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre
$18.95 Add to cartA personal investigative journey into the so-called Chelan Falls Massacre of 1875.
“The particulars of the crime, Spagna’s work suggests, matter less than understanding how something awful can change- Author: Spagna, Ana Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814692
- Language: English
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When China Attacks: A Warning to America
$29.99 Add to cartWhen China Attacks is a fire bell in the night–a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen next.
China pose- Author: Newsham, Grant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1684513650
- Language: English
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The Coming Insurrection
$13.95 Add to cartA call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.
Thirty years of “crisis,” mass unemployment, and flagging growt
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention #1
- Author: The Invisible Committee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584350806
- Language: English
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
$23.00 Add to cartWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both dev… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: November 07 1993
- ISBN10: 140445757
- Language: English
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Survival Spanish for Social Services
$25.00 Add to cartSurvival Spanish for Social Services is designed for adults working in any area of the social services profession. No experience in the Spanish language is needed for success. This book contains hundr… [more below]
- Author: Melton, Myelita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: March 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0978699882
- Language: English
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Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics
$20.00 Read moreBreathing new life into revolutionary ideas.
According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; … [more below]
- Author: Bookchin, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354421
- Language: English
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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War
$39.95 Add to cartThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central q… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640121528
- Language: English
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American Fix
$24.00 Add to cartIn American Fix, Ryan Hampton describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of action to
- Author: Hampton, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1250257093
- Language: English
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The Present Time – Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)
$13.95 Add to cartIn The Present Time, Carlyle takes aim at modernity. This essay was, even in its time, seen as so blistering that the Southern Literary Messenger described its contents as “purely monstrous, and the m
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1922602027
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
