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Jonathan Balcombe
Fish Sense (Picador Shorts)

A quirky, intimate, and eye-opening look into the ways of thinking like a fish. An extract from the much-loved modern classic on the subject of fish consciousness, What a Fish Knows. Do fishes think? Do t…

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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Marion Nestle
The Fish Counter (Picador Shorts)

America's leading nutritionist teaches you how to navigate the fish counter. A standalone extract from the newly revised edition of her groundbreaking What to Eat (which is being reissued as What to Eat N…

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Jennifer Randles
Living Diaper to Diaper

A revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families--through the humble diaper.Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden conse…

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Maria Foscarinis
And Housing for All

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis.In And Housing for All , founder of the National Hom…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Keith K Miyake
The Racial Environmental State

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state This book delivers a bold rethinking of how race, environment, and state power are entangled. At its …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Sonali Kolhatkar
Talking about Abolition

"Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream d…

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Brodie Ramin
Written in Blood

Written in Blood is an urgent exploration of how disasters happen -- and how they can be prevented.Award-winning author and physician Brodie Ramin, trained in prevention through his work in primary care a…

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Twentieth Century Society
100 20th-Century Sports and Leisure Buildings

100 20th Century Sports and Leisure Buildings gives a fascinating insight into the spaces where we play from swimming pools and skate parks to cricket pavilions and ice rinks, this book explores some of t…

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Shefali Luthra
Undue Burden

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction • A TIME Best Book of 2024 • Longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall…

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Scott W. Berg
The Burning of the World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker ) story of the Gre…

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Andrea Louise Campbell
Taxation and Resentment

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practiceMost Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more. But the specific tax policies that most fa…

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Guillermina Altomonte
Chasing Independence

How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America---and why it is never quite realizedIn twenty-first century America, as people live longer than ever before, it's taken for granted tha…

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Kevin Fagan
The Lost and the Found

A "riveting, deeply compassionate" (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope .Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness …

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Geography in the 21st Century

These 40 chronologically arranged entries examine the key events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st Century.

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Andrew Dan Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Diego Chaves-Gonzalez, Ariel G Ruiz Soto
On the Move

The Americas is a region on the move and is both the source and recipient of some of the largest migrations in the world today. While much scholarship and public commentary focus on the considerable movem…

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Lucy Schiller
Aging Out

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has …

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Family and Disability Activism

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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