Social Policy
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
$19.95 Read moreWhen House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been dis
- Author: Brown, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 162963638X
- Language: English
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Skateboarding, Power and Change
$44.99 Add to cartThis book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders
- Author: Willing, Indigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9819912334
- Language: English
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Paid to Piss People Off: Book 2 PORN: Book 2 PORN
$20.00 Add to cartAs a lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court bar, Lynn litigated and debated. As a clergyperson in the United Church of Christ, empathy and a passion for correcting injustice and inequality pulled him to
- Series: Paid to Piss People Off #2
- Author: Lynn, Barry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958728101
- Language: English
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The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
$41.99 Add to cartPut the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying … [more below]
- Author: Borrup, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0940069474
- Language: English
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Walking in Daniel’s Shoes
$14.99 Add to cartA father’s journey through grief, controversy, activism and healing following his son’s death in the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The book describes the experiences of Tom Maus… [more below]
- Author: Mauser, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: April 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0985302119
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$46.58 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 801474450
- Language: English
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis #0
- Author: Nelson, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0393091732
- Language: English
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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
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On Dope: Drug Enforcement and The First Policeman
$25.95 Add to cartOn Dope is a fierce and scholarly polemic in defense of America’s current global efforts to control the use and trafficking of illegal drugs. With blistering evidence, the book indicts both a polluted… [more below]
- Author: Stamm, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1478751452
- Language: English
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There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law and Tradition
$28.99 Add to cartHow can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?
“Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic cycles, the causes of inequality, and our obligations
- Author: Jacobs, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580234259
- Language: English
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On Medicine as Colonialism
$17.95 Add to cartIn this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief.
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- Author: Fine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639907
- 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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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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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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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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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
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Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915
$19.95 Add to cartAn in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
- Author: Harring, Sidney L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468542
- Language: English
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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn’t have to be
Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscie- Author: Reinhardt, Uwe E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208530
- Language: English
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The Virtue of Color-Blindness
$29.99 Read moreA black professor takes on the cult of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this compelling appeal to true justice, he demolishes the identity politics that makes a travesty of Martin Luther King’s dr… [more below]
- Author: Archie, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 168451309X
- Language: English
