Public Policy
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The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals, and Rogue Politicians
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the award-wining Sierra Leonean journalist, political activist and human rights advocate Chernoh Alpha M. Bah presents an in-depth investigation that challenges t
- Author: Bah, Chernoh Alpha M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0996973923
- Language: English
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It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and “an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists” (Naomi Klein).
For too long, repres
- Author: Loach, Mikaela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904428
- Language: English
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Paddy’s Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
$19.99 Add to cartA highly engaging, yet hearbreaking account of the Irish’s plight due to the Great Potato Famine. Gallagher explains why and how the famine happened, but also details the agonizing human experience of… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 1987
- ISBN10: 0156707004
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything
$21.95 Add to cartCan messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?
Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a po
- Author: Ebrahim, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455033
- Language: English
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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The Conservative Heart
$19.99 Add to cartArthur C. Brooks, one of the country’s leading policy experts and the president of the American Enterprise Institute, offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for happiness, unity, and
- Author: Brooks, Arthur C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062319760
- Language: English
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Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
$30.00 Add to cartAn illuminating account of one wolf’s journey across the Alps into Italy, and what the resurgence of wolves says about our connection to nature, immigration, and one another–from an award-winning jou… [more below]
- Author: Weymouth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
$32.00 Add to cartA tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renter- Author: Tarleton, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017809
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$19.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental g- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297083
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250342732
- Language: English
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What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartA vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris–“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacie… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0316577413
- Language: English
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Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy
$18.95 Add to cartA profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy
In Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose
- Author: Brownell, Ginanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1965278116
- Language: English
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The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change
$19.95 Read moreIn an age of climate catastrophes and extinction, we need to turn back to nature and learn, once again, how to live sustainably on planet Earth–beginning with our relationship to food.
Four billion y
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022870
- Language: English
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Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It
$29.95 Add to cartRenowned ethicist provides essential guide to successfully navigating the future AI landscape
In Building a God, Christopher DiCarlo explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence surpas
- Author: Dicarlo, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1493085883
- Language: English
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True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
$27.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
In True Wealth, economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sa
- Author: Schor, Juliet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119427
- Language: English
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Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway
$27.95 Add to cartA summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm–and learns far more than how to herd sheep
In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of yste- Author: Greensfelder, Liese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917662
- Language: English
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Spirits Distilled: A Guide to the Ingredients Behind a Better Bottle
$34.95 Read moreDo you know what’s in your drink? Which grains go into your favorite Bourbon? What makes an artisanal Tequila? Or why molasses-based rum is so different in flavor from its sugarcane juice counterpart?
- Author: Harry, Nat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1958510017
- Language: English
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
$22.95 Add to cartCo-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
Rubbing two st
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263515
- Language: English
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Carbon: The Book of Life
$28.00 Add to cartA journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living w- Author: Hawken, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525427449
- Language: English
