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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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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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James Dougherty, Charles C Bohl
The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual co…

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Mitch Pearlstein
Second Chance Hiring

The USA prison system holds over a million people each year, but they are routinely barred from securing jobs upon their release. Addressing both policy and socio-cultural realities, Second Chance Hiring …

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Auden Schendler
Terrible Beauty

"Apple calls its headquarters the greenest building on Earth. Microsoft announces an ambitious commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring an oil conference in Saudi Arabia. Ameri…

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Thomas Hale
Long Problems

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climat…

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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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Andrew Friedman
Dish

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"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." -Wall Street JournalAcclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the …

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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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Cédric Durand,
How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever.In fact, in…

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Richard Holden
Money in the Twenty-First Century

"A layperson's guide to the way in which digital currencies may evolve over the coming decades and what this means for government-issued currency. This is the issue that will confront policy makers. …

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The Art of Scaling

Increased existential threats demand that Western Democracies and their armed forces can swiftly scale up, rapidly expanding their capabilities to deter potential adversaries and defend borders effectivel…

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Robert N Spengler
Nature's Greatest Success

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force--and the science behind it.Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As…

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Richard Damania, Ebad Ebadi, Kentaro Mayr, Jun Rentschler
Nature's Paradox

Nature's Paradox is about the intersection of two major crises of the 21st century; the sustainability crisis and the social exclusion and inequality crisis. It explores the disproportionate impact that e…

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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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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers h…

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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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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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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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Eurie Dahn,
Snack

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial - perhaps even childish - especially in contr…

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