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  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Reading the Constitution

    Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

    A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nuclear War

    A Scenario

    “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrifying.”—Wall Street JournalThere is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.Every generation, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Abolish Prisons

    Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment

    An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Crisis

    The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises

    By drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on behind the scenes at the highest levels in a diplomatic crisis.The two major foreign policy crises in this book, one successfully negotiated, one that ended tragically, were unique in that they moved so ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Poverty, by America

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lost in Ideology

    Interpreting Modern Political Life

    by Jason Blakely ...
    Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.Lost in Ideology sets out from the conviction that the current disorientation engulfing the world’s liberal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Mediocre

    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thirty Five Years Of State Led Genocide In The Presence Of Au And International Community In Ethiopia

    by Moa Tewahedo ...
    The church is the one that played the leading role in preventing our country from being invaded by white colonists. Being a source of ethics and morals, the contribution that the church made in the building a cultured society that loves the country and is governed by low is witnessed by foreigners as well. It has ists own language and Alphabet, and has contributed books useful for civilization, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moneyball for Government

    Data and evidence don't lie—but for too long, our policy makers haven't paid them nearly enough attention.In 2014, an all-star team of leaders and thinkers from across the political spectrum came together to propose an exciting new vision for the country—one where policy makers base decisions not on politics or expedience, but on the hard evidence of what really works. The first edition of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • GENOCIDE PREPARATION IN ETHIOPIA

    WHEN COMPARED TO THE NAZI PARTY AND HUTU POWER

    by Moa Tewahedo ...
    GENOCIDE PREPARATION IN ETHIOPIA. WHEN COMPARED TO THE NAZI PARTY AND HUTU POWER ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palaces for the People

    How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

    “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon StewartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Return of the Primitive

    The Anti-Industrial Revolution

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd.In Return Of The Primitive (originally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition

    Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

    This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.The world is out of balance. With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that systemic racism and colonial structures are foundational principles to our economies. The $1 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

    21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why.In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Downtown

    Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

    Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: “Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.” —BooklistWritten by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dreamt Land

    Chasing Water and Dust Across California

    by Mark Arax ...
    A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroughtMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Exposure

    Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

    by Robert Bilott ...
    The true story of a lawyer’s fight to expose DuPont’s deadly chemical contamination—“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)1998: Attorney Rob Bilott specializes in helping big corporations follow environmental regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Tweeting to Power

    The Social Media Revolution in American Politics

    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage in politics. Gainous and Wagner propose that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offer the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Pigeon Tunnel

    Stories from My Life

    **DON’T MISS THE PIGEON TUNNEL DOCUMENTARY—NOW PLAYING IN SELECT THEATERS AND STREAMING ON AppleTV+The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies.“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.”** –Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesFrom his years serving in British ... Read more

    $7.99 USD