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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

  • It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like“A clarion call against the American oligarchs . . . powerful.”—The GuardianIt’s OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Bias That Divides Us

    The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

    A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics?We don’t live in a ‘post-truth’ society—but a ‘myside’ society in which no one can agree on accepted truth and facts.In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don’t live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Next Pandemic

    On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

    An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat -- Ebola, SARS, Zika, coronavirus -- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    **A “**concise and utterly enlightening” look at why we can’t wrap our minds around climate change (Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sovereignty without Power

    Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Right to Try

    How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Life-Saving Treatments They Need

    by Darcy Olsen ...
    Why should you need the government’s permission to save your own life?Jenn McNary’s two sons, Max and Austin, were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and eventually death. In a cruel and unnecessary twist, Max received access to a clinical trial; Austin didn’t. As a result, Max was able to get out of his wheelchair and play on his school ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Out of Captivity

    Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

    “[A] remarkable story….An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.” —Arizona RepublicThe spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors who were held hostage by the FARC rebel group in Colombia for five and a half years. Written with Gary Brozek, this book is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Love Your Enemies

    How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERTo get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The World We Create

    A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril

    Since the dawn of the modern environmental movement, Frances Beinecke has been on its front lines, leading the charge for clean air, fresh water, healthy wildlife and fertile lands. As she prepares to retire as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The World We Create captures the story of her remarkable tenure as head of America’s leading environmental advocacy organization and lays ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Straphanger

    Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

    by Taras Grescoe ...
    Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Internet for the People

    The Fight for Our Digital Future

    by Ben Tarnoff ...
    **"For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibility in this intriguing book, which urges the development of 'a public lane on the information superhighway.' It's worth checking out for yourself." – Seth MacFarlaneWhy is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?**In Internet for the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reputation and Power

    Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA

    Series Book 111 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
    How the FDA became the world's most powerful regulatory agencyThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto

    by Jenny Price ...
    "Pithy, funny, exasperated, and informed…You cannot read a more important hundred pages than Stop Saving the Planet!" —Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It StandsWe’ve been "saving the planet" for decades!…And environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing—and low-income communities continue to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • No Refuge

    Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis

    by Serena Parekh ...
    Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many. In the news we often see photos of people in transit, suffering untold deprivations in desperate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lessons from the Covid War

    An Investigative Report

    This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern timesOur national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • False Alarm

    How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Science Be Dammed

    How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

    Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Saving Us

    A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

    United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Road Taken

    The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

    A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heart of a Lion

    A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America

    "This is one stirring account of one stirring journey: the trek of a fellow creature through a hostile, man-made world**--and through our imaginations."** --Bill McKibben, author of EAARTH: MAKING A LIFE ON A TOUGH NEW PLANETLate one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Live Sustainably Now

    A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life

    by Karl Coplan ...
    Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society—much less to live well? What are the options for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD