Sociology
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Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty
$29.99 Read moreFor generations, creating a family was an ordinary part of human life. But today, there’s a marked gap between how many children people want to have, and how many they actually will. As birth rates pl
- Author: Sussman, Anna Louie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0063046334
- Language: English
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East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood
$35.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed artist and Instagram star Guadalupe Rosales comes this moonlit memoir, a visually stunning, poignant account of growing up in ’90s Los Angeles that weaves stories with snapshots and soc… [more below]
- Author: Rosales, Guadalupe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0593447263
- Language: English
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
$19.99 Add to cartConsuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet–but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world wit
- Author: MacKinnon, J. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063575000
- Language: English
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?
$32.00 Read moreFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel, a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports–seeking to d
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0063517663
- Language: English
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Search Work: A Collective Inquiry Into the Job Hunt
$24.95 Add to cartIt can be enervating, stressful and, occasionally, triumphal–looking for work has never been more of a roller coaster. Now, in compelling testimonies, Search Work shares that experience, giving voice
- Author: Smith, Rachel Meade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 168219454X
- Language: English
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Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See
$25.95 Add to cartA muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city’s historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215446
- Language: English
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What Happened to College?: How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to Fix It
$30.00 Read moreA sociologist who has been tracking the polarization of higher education for twenty years reveals how students are navigating the campus culture wars, what they wish their professors would do differen… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1668200449
- Language: English
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The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda
$30.00 Read moreAn explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.
October 7th, 2023- Author: Kinsella, Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0771021577
- Language: English
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Generation F*cked: How Millennials and Gen Z Were Robbed of the American Dream and How We Can Fix Our Futures
$21.95 Read moreOur economic system has changed, and younger generations are being locked out of the opportunities our parents once had. Generation Fcked* exposes how the system broke, why the old rules no longer wor… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Freddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1637748825
- Language: English
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Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family
$20.00 Add to cartFamilies are created through conception, adoption, fostering and family-blending. As a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist for nearly a decade, Anndee Hochman interviewed hundreds of parents–older and yo… [more below]
- Author: Hochman, Anndee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1439926476
- Language: English
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Outliers: The Story of Success
$42.00 Add to cartThere is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that i
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 18 2008
- ISBN10: 031602497X
- Language: English
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$19.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123508
- Language: English
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
$19.00 Add to cartAn uproarious and “utterly charming” (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Stephen Starring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1668018055
- Language: English
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Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age
$31.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America…
Millions of people are affe- Author: Markee, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891675
- Language: English
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Mommy Burnout
$22.15 Add to cartThe ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the “perfect mom,” filled with funny and all too relatabl
- Author: Ziegler, Sheryl G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0062683691
- Language: English
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Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
$29.95 Add to cartAsylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.
In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forci- Author: Wipond, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1637741480
- 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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Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past
$15.99 Read moreStories of hope, love, and compassion from a bygone era of Singapore’s history Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact. These neve… [more below]
- Author: Devasahayam, Theresa W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9815127128
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings
$22.00 Add to cartIn The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439218
- Language: English
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Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want
$20.00 Add to cartWhat tools do we need to empower ourselves and our communities to create a more just and desirable future?
We are at a watershed moment of rising fascism and rising seas. Yet, our ability to connect an
- Author: Chynoweth, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1945335513
- Language: English
