Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
$18.99 Add to cartThe co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity’s cha… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0316417203
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239938
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$28.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239911
- Language: English
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
Millions of Americans work full- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808316
- Language: English
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Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative
$29.00 Read more- Author: Barker, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1668213176
- Language: English
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition
$17.95 Add to cartNow in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple.
“A classic for our times. It is a- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 9798216390701
- Language: English
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Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia
$39.95 Add to cartPrince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. A
- Author: Simms, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0871548259
- Language: English
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We Shall Not Bow Down: Children of Color Under Siege: An Invocation to Resistance
$17.95 Add to cartAn eloquent and passionate call for educational transformation.
In the culminating work of his career, groundbreaking educator Jonathan Kozol goes back into urban schools, where racial isolation is at- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215306
- Language: English
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City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive and “captivating” (Marty Baron, author of Collision of Power) story of San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and politi… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1668074915
- Language: English
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Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else?: Playing Offense in the Fight for Racial Justice in America
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Brown Is the New White, an explosive new argument for draining the swamp of white male privilege
“Steve Phillips situates our present crisis exactly where it belongs-with- Author: Phillips, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893850215
- Language: English
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Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “barn burner of a book” (The New York Times Book Review) New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones blends personal stories and in-depth reporting to expose the harsh reality of America’s cul… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1982197439
- Language: English
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City
$19.00 Add to cartBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where
- Author: Garcia, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371899
- Language: English
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Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
$27.95 Add to cartIn this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.
Venezuela in Crisi
- Author: Bean, Anderson M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904640
- Language: English
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Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising
$24.00 Add to cartThe dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y
- Author: Williams, Kristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1849354286
- Language: English
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The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
$29.00 Read moreA New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026
“I have found few books lately as immediately compelling as Barrag?n’s, and as a reader, I could not put it down. As an unexpected fresh take- Author: Barragán, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0374609306
- Language: English
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
$20.00 Add to cartHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods–with good schools and good housing–are only acces
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD- Author: Appelbaum, Yoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593449312
- Language: English
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
$19.00 Add to cartYears before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor — and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowle… [more below]
- Author: Bageant, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339378
- Language: English
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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
$56.99 Add to cartThere are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We’re fascinated by their houses and estates, t… [more below]
- Author: Doughty, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1529153042
- Language: English
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Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of Educated and Invisible Child, David Sussillo combines memoir and cutting-edge neuroscience to tell the story of his unlikely journey from group homes and drug-addicted parents to the scien… [more below]
- Author: Sussillo, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1538768577
- Language: English
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Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
$19.99 Add to cartAN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLE
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA’S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538740338
- Language: English
