Public Policy
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics Volume 78
$37.43 Add to cart“A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it’s never too late.”—New York Times
Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowne- Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
- Author: Nestle, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520384156
- Language: English
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1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World
$18.99 Add to cartJoin journalist Devi Lockwood on this “monumental achievement” (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought,… [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, Devi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1982146737
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything–And Endangered the World
$32.65 Read moreFinalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environmen- Author: Zuckerman, Jocelyn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975238
- Language: English
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In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio
$34.95 Read moreIn the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1595349227
- Language: English
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the Us Child Protection System
$19.00 Read moreAnalyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
- Author: Lash, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467430
- Language: English
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Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These base… [more below]
- Author: Vine David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1510728813
- Language: English
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
$19.99 Add to cart“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and…wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 147677787X
- Language: English
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Paid to Piss People Off: Book 3 PRAYER: Book 3 PRAYER
$20.00 Add to cartIn this 3rd book of his three-volume memoir, Barry W. Lynn recounts twenty-five years working against the top leaders of the Religious Right on issues including school prayer, prayer in public places,
- Author: Lynn, Barry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 195872811X
- Language: English
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
$29.95 Add to cart“Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”
Why the market will never solve the
–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292303
- Language: English
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Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the Pill Mill Killer
$29.95 Read moreAn obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opioid epidemic’s longest term for illegal prescriptions — four life sentences
Written in the tradition- Author: Eil, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1586423827
- Language: English
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Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change–floods, droughts, a
- Author: Kormos, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977494
- Language: English
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Embracing Limits: A Radical and Necessary Approach to the Environmental Crisis
$25.00 Add to cartRADICAL MEASURES ARE NECESSARY
If you’ve ever wondered where we’re headed, and what a truly sustainable future might look like-this is the book for you.
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Today’s civilization is like a kid with a
- Author: Akers, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0945528027
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America’s Generals and Politicians
$28.00 Read moreWall Street Journal Bestseller
As Seen on Tucker Carlson Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afgha
USA Today Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Bestseller- Author: Scheller, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585446
- Language: English
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Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
$17.99 Add to cartAmerican veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Ter- Author: Bacevich, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250832497
- Language: English
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
$28.95 Read moreFrom one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139010
- Language: English
