A Norton Short
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Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
$24.00 Add to cartFood justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a world where everyone has enough? What does it mean to
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Reese, Ashanté M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324076461
- Language: English
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The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
$24.00 Add to cartWhy has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and fina
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881822
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
$24.00 Add to cartDrawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidat
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050985
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$12.00 Add to cartHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110325
- Language: English
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Sex Beyond Yes: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
$24.00 Add to cartEvery discussion of sexual ethics revolves around consent, but is this notion enough to help us understand good sex? How does the dominance of consent help or prevent us from negotiating the complexit
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Kukla, Quill R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064927
- Language: English
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The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers
$24.00 Add to cart“Kaya mo ba?” Can you take it? An instructor asks this of a group of migrant workers in the Philippines, as they prepare for domestic work in wealthier countries. Can you take the grueling work? “Kaya
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 132402030X
- Language: English
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Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion
$24.00 Add to cartWherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it–or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawe
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lam, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051248
- Language: English
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What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
$24.00 Add to cartBiologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical. But we know that racism and its structural impacts shape our health, opportunities, and lives in pro
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Bliss, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021764
- Language: English
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The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
$24.00 Add to cartToday, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of bil
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Sebo, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064803
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$22.00 Read moreHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064943
- Language: English
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Imagination: A Manifesto
$22.00 Add to cartA world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, lo
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020970
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$22.00 Add to cartWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036664
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartHarriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324020873
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$22.00 Add to cartLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882187
- Language: English
