Social Policy
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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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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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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
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On Dope: Drug Enforcement and The First Policeman
$25.95 Add to cartOn Dope is a fierce and scholarly polemic in defense of America’s current global efforts to control the use and trafficking of illegal drugs. With blistering evidence, the book indicts both a polluted… [more below]
- Author: Stamm, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1478751452
- Language: English
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There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law and Tradition
$28.99 Add to cartHow can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?
“Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic cycles, the causes of inequality, and our obligations
- Author: Jacobs, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580234259
- Language: English
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On Medicine as Colonialism
$17.95 Add to cartIn this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief.
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- Author: Fine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639907
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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The Conversation on Guns
$16.95 Read moreFrom TheConversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States–and possible ways to stop it.
In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group of
- Series: Critical Conversations
- Author: Densley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1421447363
- 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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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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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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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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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn’t have to be
Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscie- Author: Reinhardt, Uwe E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208530
- Language: English
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The Virtue of Color-Blindness
$29.99 Read moreA black professor takes on the cult of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this compelling appeal to true justice, he demolishes the identity politics that makes a travesty of Martin Luther King’s dr… [more below]
- Author: Archie, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 168451309X
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
$15.00 Read moreA Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.
- Author: Collective, Debt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592625
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
$26.90 Add to cartAwarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975483
- Language: English
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To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood
$18.00 Add to cart“To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.” –Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller The Trouble with Boy… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128097
- Language: English
