Public Policy
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be
$18.00 Add to cartProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a d
- Author: West, Marcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656835
- Language: English
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
$35.00 Add to cartReal-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems–from housing to retirement to drug addiction–based on original reporting from around the world
A new generation of Americans has declared
- Author: Hakimi Zapata, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 162097844X
- Language: English
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Democracy and Urban Form
$27.95 Add to cartIf discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 191560947X
- Language: English
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world–and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.
How we live is shaped b- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368191
- Language: English
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
$28.00 Add to cartAn inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time, that frames the challenges we face as a society and–with grace, generosity, and
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1954118686
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$30.00 Add to cartThrough the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend–the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America
The- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593237145
- Language: English
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Abundance
$30.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling authors and journalistic titans, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in syst… [more below]
- Author: Klein, Ezra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668023482
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$48.95 Read moreInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic re- Author: Gelinas, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508219
- Language: English
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The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
$40.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world
Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much o- Author: Murray, Williamson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270682
- Language: English
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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story
$35.00 Add to cartA radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North
- Author: Parker, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063161915
- Language: English
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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
$30.00 Add to cartWho works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.
The government is a vast, complex system that Amer- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Attach? Case: Backstage at the Embassy
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Pierce, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1943444420
- Language: English
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From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World
$30.00 Read moreAccelerate your real-world, social impact by driving systemic policy changes
As Co-Founder of Global Citizen–an international education and advocacy organization with the mission to end extreme pover
- Author: Sheldrick, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1394202342
- Language: English
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Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World
$32.00 Add to cartFor most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort–long hours of teaching,… [more below]
- Author: Sawin, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833770
- Language: English
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The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs
$28.95 Read moreThe liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation … [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762076
- Language: English
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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
$19.99 Read moreLibrary of Science Book Club selection
“A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles T
Discover magazine “What to Read” selection- Author: Ellard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1942658001
- Language: English
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
$75.00 Add to cartAnthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of … [more below]
- Author: Wondrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0199311137
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Add to cartThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science
$29.99 Add to cartAI isn’t magic. How AI Works demystifies the explosion of artificial intelligence by explaining–without a single mathematical equation–what happened, when it happened, why it happened, how it happen… [more below]
- Author: Kneusel, Ronald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1718503725
- Language: English
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refriger
- Author: Brende, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060570059
- Language: English
