Public Policy
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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
$18.99 Add to cartForbes, Best Business Books of 2022
The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly m
Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022- Author: Abramitzky, Ran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541797841
- Language: English
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American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience
$16.95 Read more“A moving and timely book that strips away misleading politics to reveal the complexities of real human lives.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A provocative, conversation-sparking exploration of r- Series: Truth to Power
- Author: Abdo, Diya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423428
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
$30.00 Add to cartSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting… [more below]
- Author: Trounstine, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1108454984
- Language: English
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
$32.00 Add to cartBest Books of 2024: “Frerick’s prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes. This is no alarmist screed but rather a careful… [more below]
- Author: Frerick, Austin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1642832693
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$147.50 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2005
- ISBN10: 801444330
- Language: English
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
$30.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work–restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans–would not call th
- Author: Horn, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354873
- Language: English
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Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
$26.99 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Philip H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 125088991X
- Language: English
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The Economist’s View of the World
$21.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking tour of the economist’s mind using non-technical language and relevant political examples throughout.
- Author: Rhoads, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1108994075
- Language: English
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Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It
$31.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed science journalist’s extraordinary seven-year investigation into how the U.S. oil and gas industry has avoided environmental regulations and created a dangerous and radioactive public hea
- Author: Nobel, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989546237
- Language: English
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi” —Vanity Fair
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love l
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062439685
- Language: English
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On Violence and on Violence Against Women
$20.00 Add to cartA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.
Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visibl- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849373
- Language: English
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From Knowledge to Power: The Comprehensive Handbook for Climate Science and Advocacy
$28.95 Read moreThe Earth is slowly heating up, and only we, as a global community, can stop it. With the knowledge behind what is happening, we can effect change. Using his Ph.D in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemis
- Author: Perona, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1947845292
- Language: English
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Democracy Unchained: How We Should Fulfill Our Social Rights and Save Self-Government
$18.95 Add to cartDemocracy Unchained draws upon lessons from Professor Richard Dien Winfield’s 2018 campaign for US Congress in Georgia to show how the United States’ failure to fulfill our social rights has put our s
- Author: Winfield, Richard Dien Dien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 195079413X
- Language: English
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The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast
$18.95 Read moreThe Edge is a dramatic snapshot of the California coast’s past, present, and probable future in a time of climate change and expanding human activity. Written by two marine experts who grew up on the … [more below]
- Author: Steinhardt, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353099
- Language: English
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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- Language: English
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
$39.95 Read moreThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
- Author: Sagalyn, Lynne B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204854X
- Language: English
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$17.95 Add to cartPrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066091
- Language: English
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America in Turmoil: Essays on Politics, the Economy, Society, and the Future
$29.99 Add to cartA wonderfully readable collection of trenchant essays addressing our society’s challenges and offering non-partisan solutions.” -William F. Weld, Governor of Massachusetts 1991-1997 (R), and author of
- Author: Briggs, John Deq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1647047331
- Language: English
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
$31.99 Add to cartA counterintuitive examination into how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict.
Just two decades ago, observers spoke of the US as a “hyperpower”–a- Author: Kilcullen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 019026568X
- Language: English
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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
$28.99 Add to cartUsing examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the pol… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197694578
- Language: English
