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Deepen your understanding of current events Image Elections, Economics and Politics Browse All See all items Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America Garrett Neiman Current price: $30.00 With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them. ... End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin Current price: $28.00 “Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ... 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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin Current price: $28.00 “Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ...
The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic Stephen Vladeck Current price: $30.00 An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the Supreme Court uses unsigned and unexplained orders to change the law behind closed doors. ...
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning Sarah Weinman Current price: $19.99 From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre ...
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy James Risen Current price: $32.00 In this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. ...
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See Richard D. Kahlenberg Current price: $30.00 An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it ...
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD Current price: $30.00 An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives—and how we can fix them. ...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It Tobias Rose-Stockwell Current price: $29.00 Amazon's Best History Book of the Month for July 2023 ...
The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life M.T. Connolly Current price: $30.00 An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities. ...
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable Joanna Schwartz Current price: $30.00 An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing ...
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It Will Bunch Current price: $21.99 From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life ...
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson Current price: $29.99 A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. ...
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy Lee McIntyre Current price: $14.95 A powerful, pocket-sized citizen’s guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier. ...
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America Cara Fitzpatrick Current price: $32.00 A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school ...
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma Mustafa Suleyman Current price: $32.50 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence ...
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto Jonathan Taplin Current price: $30.00 An instant bestseller! ...
Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World Michèle Lamont Current price: $28.00 “A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexamining what we value—the quest for respect—in an age that has been defined by growing inequality and the obsolescence ...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy David Corn Current price: $19.99 The Instant New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback! #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia. ...
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Current price: $28.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die ...
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War Jeff Sharlet Current price: $18.99 An Instant New York Times Bestseller. A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Nonfiction One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 One of The New Republic's Best Books of 2023 ...
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World John Vaillant Current price: $32.50 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best- ...
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future Peter Gleick Current price: $30.00 A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now ...
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life Johan Eklöf Current price: $26.00 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Scientific American ...
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell Current price: $29.00 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for The Los Angles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism ...
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial David Lipsky Current price: $32.50 A New York Times Editors' Choice • A New Yorker and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 • A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 • A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book • A Next Big Idea Must-Read Book • A Library Journal What To Read In 2023 Book ...
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 Cathie Pelletier Current price: $17.95 A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National Bestseller ...
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future Oliver Franklin-Wallis Current price: $30.00 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWS ...
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas Karen Pinchin Current price: $30.00 **THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** ...
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Barry Lopez Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired gen ...
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Madeline Ostrander Current price: $19.99 One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment ...
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods Lyndsie Bourgon Current price: $18.99 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTION ...
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Wesley Lowery Current price: $29.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ...
Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad Tamara J. Walker Current price: $28.00 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores, a powerful history of living abroad while Black. ...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Maureen Ryan Current price: $32.50 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year ...
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Current price: $35.00 A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post | Chicago Tribune | Time ...
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