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  • Solo Planet

    How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling

    by Anna Broadway ...
    How can the church do better for its millions of singles? Journalist Anna Broadway traveled around the world to interview nearly 350 Christians for answers.Solo Planet draws on her 17 months of fieldwork to provide a first-of-its-kind account of the single life of Christians from nearly 50 countries. Discussing a variety of topics—loneliness, sexuality, aging, housing, cooking, celebrations, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • How to Know a Person

    The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

    by David Brooks ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second MountainAs David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 2020

    One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

    **A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg“A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the stories of seven ordinary people. Klinenberg’s narrative shows how the legacy of that year continues to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fat Talk

    Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Book Riot best book of 2023A Science Friday best book of 2023An Audible best well-being audiobook of 2023By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do?Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a surv... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Women Without Kids

    The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

    “A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”—Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a WomanWhat is “woman” if not “mother”?Anything she wants to be.Forgoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessi... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Language City

    The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

    by Ross Perlin ...
    From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planetHalf of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Get Married

    Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

    by Brad Wilcox ...
    A Next Big Idea Club Must-ReadWhat's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single without kids**—and you'd be wrong. Nothing predicts happiness better than a good marriage.**According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox, our kids and communities—not to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Uncontrollability of the World

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by James Wagner ...
    The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.Our lives are played out on the border between what ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Fiery Angel

    Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

    by Michael Walsh ...
    Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it also has something that it must tell us. In this profound and wide-ranging historical survey, Michael ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Heat Wave

    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communal Luxury

    The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

    by Kristin Ross ...
    Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today’s concerns—internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bad Therapy

    Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children**In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How Children Succeed

    Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

    by Paul Tough ...
    **"A persuasive wake-up call.”—PeopleA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning journalist Paul Tough, a provocative and profound examination of childhood success and character—an insightful study that reveals the power to transform young people’s lives.**Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

    From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Divorce Colony

    How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

    by April White ...
    ****SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"****AMAZON, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH (Nonfiction)"****APPLE, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH"**From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms**For a woman traveling without her husband in the late ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Triple Package

    How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

    "That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are black and Hispanic subgroups in the United States far outperforming many white and Asian subgroups. Moreover ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Aesthetics of Pop Music

    Series series Theory Redux
    In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural systems, of which music is only a part. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Sex, Love & Marriage in the Elizabethan Age

    The romantic and practical entanglements practiced by the working class, gentry, nobility, and even the Queen—from the author of Scandalous Liaisons.Most people have always been interested in sex, love and marriage. Now, this entertaining and informative book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth’s England. A range of writers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latina/o Studies

    Series series Short Introductions
    Who are Latinos? What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino – or indeed Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx? Beyond the political rhetoric and popular culture representations, how can we explore what it means to be part of the largest minority group in the United States?This compelling book acts as an illuminating primer introducing the multidisciplinary field of Latina/o Studies. Bringing ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Other Significant Others

    Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

    by Rhaina Cohen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER"An arresting work of compassion and insight." ―Lori Gottlieb"I loved and recommend [The Other Significant Others] to everybody." —Ezra Klein**"I feel like I've been waiting for this book for my entire adult life." ―Anne Helen PetersenWhy do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Wave

    The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

    An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth.“In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko Kakutani explains the cascading chaos of our era and points ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Waking Up

    A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

    by Sam Harris ...
    For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important ... Read more

    $13.99 USD