Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
$31.99 Read moreShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrower- Author: Kardas-Nelson, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1250817226
- Language: English
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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor
$28.99 Add to cartA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book
A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”-the myriad businesses that profit from the poorPoverty is big business in America. The federal g
- Author: Kim, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977818
- Language: English
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Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
$32.00 Add to cartImagine: You are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it–rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593801687
- Language: English
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Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
$30.00 Add to cartThe root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging
We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division a
- Author: Powell, John A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1503638847
- Language: English
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The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
$32.50 Read moreThe dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upe
- Author: Popper, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0063205866
- Language: English
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The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy
$28.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Angela Garbes
From the president of the Economic Security Project, a book that shows how a just future is around the corner, if we are ready to seize it
The Guarantee asks us to imagi- Author: Foster, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978466
- Language: English
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The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
$24.99 Add to cart“A profoundly moving, well-researched examination of a uniquely American crisis.” —Library Journal, starred review
The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating it
- Author: Watson, Jamal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506495168
- Language: English
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The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid
$29.00 Add to cartWhy is it so expensive to be a woman in America? From a rising star in economics comes the first comprehensive look at the costs women face and why the bill runs especially high for women of color–wi… [more below]
- Author: Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593714253
- Language: English
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Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (and How It Got That Way)
$19.00 Add to cartA moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it–told through the experience of one youn… [more below]
- Author: Slade, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 059346799X
- Language: English
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
$24.95 Add to cartA probing investigation of Southeast Asia’s online scam industry – told through the voices of survivors
Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extorti- Author: Franceschini, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296902
- Language: English
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It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and “an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists” (Naomi Klein).
For too long, repres
- Author: Loach, Mikaela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904428
- Language: English
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Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics
$22.95 Add to cartA deeply reported look at how polarization and compounding crises, including the war in Gaza and threats to democracy, have reshaped American politics
Fascism or Genocide is New York Times Magazine wr- Author: Barkan, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1804299383
- Language: English
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Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
$30.00 Add to cartA poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America–written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfu… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549652
- Language: English
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Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits
“I’m not any more altruistic than the next guy, I’m just greedy for a differe
- Author: Driscoll, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978822
- Language: English
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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs–and the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken- Author: Adams, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0374250421
- Language: English
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Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
$32.50 Add to cartIn the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the story of two grandfathers–one white, one black–who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies wea… [more below]
- Author: Atuahene, Bernadette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0316572217
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
$20.00 Add to cartHegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Hopeful about the potential of today’s burgeon… [more below]
- Author: Smucker, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1849352542
- Language: English
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Negative Money
$14.95 Add to cartFinalist for the New England Book Award
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and em- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767536
- Language: English
