Public Policy
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The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business: The Business of Child Care
$21.95 Read moreAs more families shift to both parents working outside the home, the demand for high-quality child care continues to rise, creating ample opportunity for entrepreneurs like you. Now that you’ve identi… [more below]
- Series: The Business of Child Care
- Author: Forestieri, Marnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0876598378
- Language: English
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Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
$29.00 Add to cartA deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City — a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Flo… [more below]- Author: Ariza, Mario Alejandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 154178846X
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a countr
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013720
- Language: English
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A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs, California: Revised and Enlarged Edition
$52.95 Add to cartThis is a revised and enlarged version of A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs. The key chapter on the tragedy of the Section Fourteen so-called “urban holocaust,” when minorities were
- Author: Isetti, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977256481
- Language: English
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The Conversation on Guns
$16.95 Read moreFrom TheConversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States–and possible ways to stop it.
In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group of
- Series: Critical Conversations
- Author: Densley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1421447363
- Language: English
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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
$17.95 Read moreA hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that … [more below]
- Author: Boyd, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412387
- Language: English
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Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run
$19.99 Read moreAn unlikely friendship, a four-thousand-mile voyage, and an impenetrable frontier–this dramatic odyssey reveals the chaos and cruelty US immigration policies have unleashed beyond our borders.
Axel K- Author: Vonk, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645037061
- Language: English
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Finding American: Stories of Immigration from All 50 States
$45.00 Add to cartA captivating photographic portrait of the diverse experiences of immigrants in the United States, depicting the resilience and realities of building a home in a new place.
Disturbed by the increasing- Author: Shafer, Colin Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1773272217
- Language: English
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Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship
$23.95 Read more‘The global food system is sick, and almost everyone knows it. But this bold, big-hearted book doesn’t stop at diagnosing the problem–though it does that incisively and with style. If a just, more jo
- Series: Resetting Our Future
- Author: Auerbach, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 180341488X
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing mo- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Widerquist, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546892
- Language: English
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A Global Warming Primer: Pathway to a Post-Global Warming Future
$17.99 Add to cartThe media often portrays our climate future as a choice between bleak and bleaker, which may seem justified given the many impacts of global warming that we are already seeing. But it doesn’t have to … [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1937548880
- Language: English
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$31.18 Read moreOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 520384490
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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Housing Humans
$22.99 Add to cartEmpathetic and excellent advice from one of our nation’s leading Housing Authority experts, having served in leadership roles across eight major U.S. cities and one in Canada. In his book, Housing Hum
- Author: Jones, Eugene E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1735778117
- Language: English
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Marijuana: A Short History
$36.58 Add to cartFrom “Reefer Madness” to legal purchase at the corner store
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and infor
- Series: Short Histories
- Author: Hudak, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0815738315
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
$30.00 Read moreAn authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted
“Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington’- Author: Prestowitz, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300248490
- Language: English
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Postville U.S.A.
$14.95 Add to cartPostville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town’s experimen… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848646
- Language: English
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UNESCO: Facsimile of French and English Editions
$14.99 Add to cartUNESCO was created “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science, and culture.” No one spoke with greater authority about the plan for UN
- Author: Huxley, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1906267014
- Language: English
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The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
$15.95 Add to cartMyron Magnet’s The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today’s underclass-overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority… [more below]
- Author: Magnet, Mryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554023
- Language: English
