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  • The Little Blue Book

    The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic

    The indispensable handbook for DemocratsVoters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection clearly and forcefully, with hands-on advice for discussing the most pressing issues of our time: the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blue Revolution

    Unmaking America's Water Crisis

    Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don’t realize these freshwater sources ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rewilding the Urban Soul

    searching for the wild in the city

    by Claire Dunn ...
    We’re a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The River That Made Seattle

    A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish

    by BJ Cummings ...
    With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cancer Factory

    Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

    by Jim Morris ...
    **“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and doctor’s offices.”—Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River“The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with how our bodies pay the price for our nation’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Nature, Choice and Social Power

    We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do.Using case studies from different ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Das Zeitalter der Resilienz

    Leben neu denken auf einer wilden Erde

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    Translated by Jürgen Neubauer ...
    Die Geschichte der Menschheit und die Zukunft unserer Spezies auf der Erde - beides zusammen muss ganz neu gedacht werden. Der Ökonom und Bestsellerautor Jeremy Rifkin zeigt, wie die Inbesitznahme der Erde und das industrielle Effizienzdenken alle Lebensbereiche durchdrungen und uns an den Rand des ökologischen Untergangs geführt haben. Nur ein radikaler Wandel unseres Selbstbildes kann uns noch ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Great Society

    A New History

    by Amity Shlaes ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes and catastrophic missteps of our well-meaning leaders." —Alan GreenspanToday, a battle rages in our coun... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe

    Man, Nature, and Climate Change

    A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Flyover Nation

    You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

    by Dana Loesch ...
    Dana Loesch believes in Christianity, patriotism, traditional marriage, and the right to bear arms, among other “quaint” ideas. For the elites in DC, Los Angeles, New York, and Silicon Valley, that makes her as bizarre as a three-headed dog.Loesch is alarmed that America is fracturing into two countries—not North and South, but Coastal and Flyover. Worse, the people in charge don’t understand the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

    An internationally recognized legal expert provides a road map for understanding—and defending—privacy in the twenty-first century.Danielle Keats Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are—in bathrooms and bedrooms, with our families and our lovers, in the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable—and shows us that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Who Rules the Earth?

    How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives

    Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the latest ecological crisis. What will it really take to move society onto a more sustainable path? Many of us are already doing the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Emergency

    A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

    by Thomas Fisher ...
    **The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go wrong.”—The New York TimesONE ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Systems Ultra

    Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

    by Georgina Voss ...
    A TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLDSystems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on code drives dangerously? What does massmarket graphics software tell us about the workplace politics of architects? And, in these human-made systems, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Vision Of The Annointed

    Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalismIn The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Politics Industry

    How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

    Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and practical solutions to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system.Provocative view of our political system as an industry.Extremely well-argued and well-researched.Provides ideas for practical solutions, a distinguishing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • What's the Worst That Could Happen?

    A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

    by Greg Craven ...
    7.2 million YouTube viewers can't be wrong: A provocative new way to look at the global warming debate.Based on a series of viral videos that have garnered more than 7.2 million views, this visually appealing book gives readers-be they global warming activists, soccer moms, or NASCAR dads-a way to decide on the best course of action, by asking them to consider, "What's the worst that could happen? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • End of Discussion

    How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)

    They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion.In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. You’ve felt it and “End of Discussion” can help you fight it.The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • How to Interpret the Constitution

    From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpretedThe U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today—about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are profoundly affecting the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Carmageddon

    How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

    A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealthy—from a talented young writer at the Economist.**“**Briskly written, well researched, and with a knack for landing the significant statistic right after the crisply summarized argument.” —The New YorkerThe automobile was one of the most miraculous inventions of the 20th century. It promised freedom ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multiculturalism without Culture

    by Anne Phillips ...
    Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Winter World

    The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

    From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions.Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren ... Read more

    $15.99 USD