Sociology
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The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now
$29.00 Read moreAn NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives–and how our country has nearly always failed to put our children first
The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract- Author: Kamenetz, Anya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1541700988
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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Eyaculación Responsable
$17.95 Read moreIn a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of accoun… [more below]
- Author: Blair, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 8415732619
- Language: Spanish
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
$26.95 Read moreOn the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe–at least for the time being–in Egypt, wher
- Author: Kingsley, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492551
- Language: English
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A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
$28.00 Read moreGotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.
This is the story of New York City, told through- Author: Bird, Christiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1632867427
- Language: English
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
$17.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and form- Author: Philpott, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1635578450
- Language: English
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Enjoy Me Among My Ruins
$15.95 Read moreCombining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Juniper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 155861382X
- Language: English
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An Unplanned Life: A Memoir
$33.82 Read moreA major autobiography of a remarkable life that broke down racial barriers, transformed institutions, and energized the struggle for justice, by the former president of the Ford Foundation
“Frank has- Author: Thomas, Franklin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977575
- Language: English
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
$28.99 Read moreCaribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain
Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories. Steeped in history where ancestors arrived as slave- Author: Shearer, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750994894
- Language: English
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Why Food Matters
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history
“A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Freedman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268084
- Language: English
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
$20.00 Read moreThe mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement–with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fo- Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970470
- Language: English
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Naturaleza, Cultura Y Desigualdades
$13.95 Read moreA comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the pe… [more below]
- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 8433921797
- Language: Spanish
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I Live with Down Syndrome
$8.95 Read moreMeet Cecilia! She goes to school and likes to bake cupcakes. She also has Down Syndrome. Learn about her family, her friends, and her dreams for the future. Includes a support page of teaching tips fo… [more below]
- Series: I Live with
- Author: Earley, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887354309
- Language: English
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Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
$15.00 Read moreShawna Potter has been a touring musician for over twenty years–and has been sexually harassed for just as long. Here’s her DIY guide to fighting back.
Shawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women- Author: Potter, Shawna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1849353565
- Language: English
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The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales
$28.99 Read moreCarefully selected stories from the celebrated Folk Tales series have been gathered here for this special volume. Herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performin… [more below]
- Author: History Press Uk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0750993219
- Language: English
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
$30.00 Read moreA piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must… [more below]
- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0525657193
- Language: English
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Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
$46.58 Read moreJames Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee – Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists – Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social
- Author: Ewoodzie, Joseph C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691203946
- Language: English
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy
“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”–The New… [more below]- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0812988116
- Language: English
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
$27.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics–from t… [more below]
- Author: O’Neil, Cathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1984825453
- Language: English
