Public Policy
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
$21.99 Add to cartFormer Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time… [more below]
- Author: Paulson, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1455551902
- Language: English
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A Case for Compassion: What Happens When We Prioritize People and the Planet
$15.99 Add to cart“This clear-eyed vision for a more compassionate world will inspire you to take action in your own community.” -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of The Willpower Instinct
What would happen if the systems
- Author: Schairer, Sara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: January 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885044561
- Language: English
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Doomed To Fail: Why Government Is Incapable of Living up to Our Hopes
$25.99 Add to cartHuman societies are complex adaptive systems, the nature of which has important ramifications for the way in which countries organize themselves politically and arrange themselves economically.
In Doom
- Author: Paul, Shotton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1956257896
- Language: English
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The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartHow trade imbalances spurred on the global financial crisis and why we aren’t out of trouble yet
China’s economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating ser- Author: Pettis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163626
- Language: English
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Development: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?
The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198736258
- Language: English
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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
$30.00 Add to cartBest-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.
– Susan- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400792
- Language: English
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay- Author: Chaudhary, Ajay Singh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672112
- Language: English
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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
$26.95 Read moreInvestigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.
Big Pharma is more interested in profit t- Author: Dearden, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291455
- Language: English
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.00 Add to cartIn a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind’s greatest innovations.
“A towerin- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525436332
- Language: English
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The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
$26.95 Read moreWe need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economi
- Author: Schmelzer, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765844
- Language: English
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The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
$19.95 Read moreWhy does the United States go to war?–a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers.
A withering expos? of runaway military spending and the private economic interests- Author: Cockburn, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 183976368X
- Language: English
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We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms
$27.95 Add to cart“Houston spread like a glass of milk spilled on the wobbling table of Texan plains,” Micah Fields writes in this unique and poetic blend of reportage, history, and memoir. Developed as the commercial
- Author: Fields, Micah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1324003790
- Language: English
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Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
$27.95 Add to cartThe path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies
Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies–Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google–have built i- Author: Kemp, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1639080619
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$32.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior
“Illuminating…Wils- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863739
- Language: English
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The Complete Guide to Creating a Special Needs Life Plan: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Life, Resource, Financial, and Legal Planning to Ensure
$43.95 Read moreThe purpose of special needs planning is to create the best possible life for an adult with a disability. This book provides comprehensive guidance on creating a life plan to transition a special need
- Author: Faber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1849059144
- Language: English
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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming
$22.99 Read moreThe first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.
The basics of climate science
- Author: Holthaus, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 006288316X
- Language: English
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
$21.95 Read moreCelebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than
- Series: Asian Arguments
- Author: Eyler, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 178360719X
- Language: English
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true stor- Author: Blum, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0143111124
- Language: English
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics
$40.00 Add to cartIn Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 046509676X
- Language: English
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
$17.99 Add to cartA “razor-sharp” introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) — and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in… [more below]
- Author: Sunkara, Bhaskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541647106
- Language: English
