Social Policy
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
$15.00 Read moreA Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.
- Author: Collective, Debt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592625
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
$26.90 Add to cartAwarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975483
- Language: English
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To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood
$18.00 Add to cart“To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.” –Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller The Trouble with Boy… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128097
- 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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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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Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
$21.99 Add to cartThe preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best–and how we can b
- Author: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797752
- Language: English
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American Fix
$24.00 Add to cartIn American Fix, Ryan Hampton describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of action to
- Author: Hampton, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1250257093
- Language: English
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Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
$19.99 Add to cartAn urgent exposﾃ(c)f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with ment- Author: Roth, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646479
- Language: English
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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
$19.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book yet: A revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination.
Behind a
- Author: Hegseth, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0063215055
- Language: English
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
$21.95 Add to cartAn eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities… [more below]
- Author: Mattlin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013331
- Language: English
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Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
$21.95 Read moreWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Brown, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1935408038
- Language: English
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Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
$31.48 Read moreA revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who are working on the front lines to reduce overdose death
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976382
- Language: English
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Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World’s Past and America’s Future
$30.99 Read moreThe melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate m… [more below]
- Author: Heycke, Jens Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773197
- Language: English
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Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism
$18.99 Read more“Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who’s thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world.” –Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-… [more below]
- Author: Staley, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608447
- Language: English
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
“This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of h- Author: Rosenthal, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 143110853
- Language: English
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La Batalla Cultural: Reflexiones CrÃticas Para una Nueva Derecha
$22.99 Add to cartEl afamado escritor, politólogo, y conferencista AgustÃn Laje presenta La batalla cultural: Reflexiones crÃticas para una Nueva Derecha – un manifiesto que informará, animará y facultará a los “
- Author: Laje, Agustin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1400238412
- Language: Spanish
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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
$18.99 Add to cartBEST OF THE 2022 RUSA Book & Media AWARDS One of Biblioracle’s 8 favorite nonfiction books of 2021 in the Chicago Tribune The New York Post‘s BEST BOOKS OF 2021 USA Today‘s 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS
“Alexa- Author: Alexander, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828686
- Language: English
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
$21.00 Add to cartGroundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.
“Get your hands on this book.”-Bill- Author: Wilkinson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1608193411
- Language: English
