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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

Matthew Greenslade describes the damage done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a targeted approach to social protection in lower-income countries, while also describing some of the successes in t…

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Mitch Pearlstein
Second Chance Hiring

Addressing both policy and socio-cultural realities, this book makes the economic and ethical case for hiring formerly incarcerated individuals-affording them the chance for re-entry into the workforce an…

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Petros C Mavroidis
Industrial Policy, National Security, and the Perilous Plight of the Wto

The WTO is facing an unprecedented crisis, one which threatens to critically erode its relevance and destabilize global trade. Petros C. Mavroidis's new book provides insight into current international tr…

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Wen Stephenson
Learning to Live in the Dark

In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After t…

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Josephine Ensign
Way Home

"This is a work of narrative nonfiction set in Seattle-King County, Washington, that explores the contemporary landscape of homelessness with an emphasis on innovative local solutions"--

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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

Matthew Greenslade describes the damage done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a targeted approach to social protection in lower-income countries, while also describing some of the successes in t…

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

"Liza Grandia expertly weaves together ethnographic narrative, Maya agricultural knowledge, and legal sleuthing to shine light on maize- and seed-related activism in the face of transnational corpora…

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Sarah Fouts
Rebuilding New Orleans

Reveals how after Hurricane Katrina, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

"From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine, to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the…

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Michael J Graetz
The Power to Destroy

How the antitax fringe went mainstream---and now threatens America's futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards---and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reas…

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Noah Weisbord
The Crime of Aggression

A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime…

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Robert N Spengler
Nature's Greatest Success

"A compelling case for decoupling domestication from the yoke of human dominance and intentionality and instead understanding it as a pervasive and ages-old coevolutionary process. Spengler integrate…

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Brad Swanson
Profit vs. Progress

Why socially responsible investment promises to make investors richer and the world better---but fails at both.Wall Street thrives by telling investors that clever financial strategies can reverse the tra…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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Agustina Paglayan
Raised to Obey

"How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly every country today has universal primary education.…

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Kate Brown
Tiny Gardens Everywhere

This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food activists, social-justice warriors, urban planners, WOOFers, and the climate-conce…

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyo…

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Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan
The Sustainability Class

"A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned conc…

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Carissa Veliz
Prophecy

From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies---the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthca…

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyo…

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