Public Policy
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Democracy Unchained: How We Should Fulfill Our Social Rights and Save Self-Government
$18.95 Add to cartDemocracy Unchained draws upon lessons from Professor Richard Dien Winfield’s 2018 campaign for US Congress in Georgia to show how the United States’ failure to fulfill our social rights has put our s
- Author: Winfield, Richard Dien Dien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 195079413X
- Language: English
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The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast
$18.95 Read moreThe Edge is a dramatic snapshot of the California coast’s past, present, and probable future in a time of climate change and expanding human activity. Written by two marine experts who grew up on the … [more below]
- Author: Steinhardt, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353099
- Language: English
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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- Language: English
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
$39.95 Read moreThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
- Author: Sagalyn, Lynne B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204854X
- Language: English
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$17.95 Add to cartPrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066091
- Language: English
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America in Turmoil: Essays on Politics, the Economy, Society, and the Future
$29.99 Add to cartA wonderfully readable collection of trenchant essays addressing our society’s challenges and offering non-partisan solutions.” -William F. Weld, Governor of Massachusetts 1991-1997 (R), and author of
- Author: Briggs, John Deq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1647047331
- Language: English
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
$32.99 Add to cartA counterintuitive examination into how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict.
Just two decades ago, observers spoke of the US as a “hyperpower”–a- Author: Kilcullen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 019026568X
- Language: English
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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
$29.99 Add to cartUsing examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the pol… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197694578
- Language: English
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Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks
$22.95 Read moreA manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544539
- Language: English
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Conquering the Political Divide: How the Constitution Can Heal Our Polarized Nation
$18.95 Add to cartThe American Dream is Still Alive. America’s promise for the future has always been that the current generation will leave a more prosperous nation and a higher standard of living for the next generat
- Author: Beck, Eric a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1640851062
- Language: English
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- Language: English
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Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse
$24.99 Add to cartThe collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary sy
- Author: Bendell, Jem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1399954474
- 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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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
