Public Policy
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built
$18.00 Add to cartSocial justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searin… [more below]
- Author: Mallory, Tamika D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1982173475
- Language: English
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The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful and heartwarming exploration of cuisine in conflict zones, highlighting the heroic persistence of people struggling to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.… [more below]
- Author: Shaikh, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0593442849
- Language: English
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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
$32.99 Add to cartDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.
In 2016, 1,100
- Author: Boiarsky, Carolyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1612499473
- Language: English
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Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses
$28.99 Read moreA firsthand account of how Richard Corcoran, former education commissioner of Florida, successfully took on powerful progressive interest groups, broke their monopoly, and paved the way for higher edu… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888458273
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician’s Personal Account
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90,000 in 2020, opioid researchers around the country exp
- Author: Lebaron, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891380431
- Language: English
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Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
$29.00 Add to cartA lively and engrossing cultural history of the avocado and the people who transformed it into an American obsession
“Whether you’re a history buff or just enjoy a chip full of guacamole, you’ll be t- Author: Allaback, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096760
- Language: English
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
$43.75 Add to cartA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached to- Author: Rogoff, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275315
- Language: English
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Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
$22.95 Add to cartA pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis–featuring a new preface by the author.
“Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more tha
- Author: T??w?, Ol?fẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903698
- Language: English
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.
Humanity has cleared a l- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1982160071
- Language: English
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The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School Funding
$24.95 Add to cart“An essential addition to any library’s collection, particularly those focusing on education policy or social justice. Its relevance extends beyond New Hampshire, addressing issues that affect schools… [more below]
- Author: Volinsky, Andru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1942155905
- Language: English
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Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History
$34.95 Add to cartFrom city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate dea
- Author: Garodnick, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754378
- Language: English
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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
$24.95 Read more“Comes at a perfect time for our collective rethinking of how society can, and must, be reorganized so that all life can flourish” Marina Sitrin, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University
“T
- Series: The Fireworks
- Author: Finley, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745346901
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$24.00 Add to cartThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
“Riveting.”–Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journa- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281935
- Language: English
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Why Government Is the Problem
$5.00 Add to cartFriedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by “we, the people.” Instead of Lincoln’s government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” we now have a government “o… [more below]
- Series: Essays in Public Policy
- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 18
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0817954422
- Language: English
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The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones
$27.00 Add to cartA road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood–by a leading tech policy expert
It’s no secret that addictive digita- Author: Morell, Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 059373629X
- Language: English
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Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City
$32.99 Add to cartFormer Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local go
- Author: Miner, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638288
- Language: English
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant new voice in science writing–“witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best” (Mary Roach)–shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science
Why would anyone research how elephants p- Author: York, Carly Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605217
- Language: English
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet
$30.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end
- Author: Marvel, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63241536
- Language: English
