Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Social Policy eBooks

If you like Social Policy eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 5506 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Of Boys and Men

    Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

    Lost.Disaffected.Adrift.Checked out.Dislocated.Withdrawn.What is happening with so many of our boys and men? Economists lament inexplicable drops in male labor force participation. Public health officials point to disproportionately male “deaths of despair” from suicide or overdose. Parents see their sons struggling and worry what it means for their future.In Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Orwell On Truth

    by George Orwell ...
    Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell’s career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his ... Read more

    $10.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • Chasing the Scream

    The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"

    by Johann Hari ...
    The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.One of Johann Hari's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    **A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Zamanın Sabrı - Faili Meşhur 90'lar!

    ZAMANIN SİHRİ SABIR, LANETİ İSE TEKERRÜRDÜR.Bizi biz yapan, aldığımız kararları etkileyen en temel şey hatırladıklarımız ve unuttuklarımızdır. Ancak her seçiş bir vazgeçişi ve ödenmesi gereken bir bedeli beraberinde getiriyor. 90’ların bitmesiyle birlikte unutmayı seçtiklerimiz, yüzleşmediğimiz, hesabını sormadığımız her şeyin bedelini; şimdi kırılgan bir demokraside, güvercin tedirginliğinde ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Forgotten Girls

    A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

    by Monica Potts ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over America.“[A] clear-eyed and tender debut . . . This book is as much the author’s story as a piece of reportage.”—The ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • 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

  • Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and AgingWhen the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • No More Police

    A Case for Abolition

    **An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers**“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework.” —NBCNews.com on Mariame KabaIn this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Prison

    What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis

    by Jeff Smith ...
    The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • With Liberty and Dividends for All

    How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough

    by Peter Barnes ...
    Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor income. To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together— ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more AmericansMuch ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Healing of America

    A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

    by T. R. Reid ...
    A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unleashing Opportunity: Why Escaping Poverty Requires a Shared Vision of Justice

    There is a perfect storm undermining something important about America: the opportunity for people born into poverty to advance over their lifetimes.This book explores how to unleash opportunity in five key areas: early childhood, the graduation gap, foster care, juvenile justice, and predatory lending. For each issue Gerson explores the magnitude of the problem, Summers applies a theological ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • God Believes in Love

    Straight Talk About Gay Marriage

    by Gene Robinson ...
    From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument, made by someone who holds the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies

    Edited by Gregor Fitzi ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Georg Simmel’s work. Starting with the established role of Simmel as a classical author of sociology, and including the growing interest in his work in the domain of philosophy, this volume explores the research on Simmel in several further disciplines ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Can't Pay, Won't Pay

    The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition

    Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We’ve been told there is no way to change an economy that pushes the majority of people into debt while a small minority hoard wealth and power.The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that mass ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Abolition of Sex

    How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls

    by Kara Dansky ...
    Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the “transgender” agenda, or the so-called “gender identity” movement, poses to all of us—especially women and girls—nor do they understand the extent to which it is taking over U.S. law and civil society. The simple truth is that “gender identity” functions to abolish sex, and all of our civic institutions—government, media, academia, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Entry Lessons

    The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration

    by Jorja Leap ...
    “A call to action … A reminder of the beautiful resilience of formerly incarcerated women and a celebration of all that they have to offer.” —Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms. Burton and founder of A New Way of LifeUrgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their familiesRecent reports show that women make up the ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Youth Policy and Social Inclusion

    Critical Debates with Young People

    Edited by Monica Barry ...
    Taking a holistic and multidisciplinary approach this book identifies and analyzes the factors which promote or discourage social inclusion of young people in today’s society. It critically examines the discriminatory attitudes towards young people, and focuses on the 'problem' of adults rather than the 'problem' of young people themselves.The authors ask searching questions about society's ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Marriage and Civilization

    How Monogamy Made Us Human

    In his stunning new book, Marriage and Civilization, author William Tucker looks at the evidence from biology, evolution, anthropology, history, and culture to come to a remarkable conclusion: it was the monogamous pairing of male and female - unusual among mammals - that led to human evolution. Moreover, it is monogamous marriage that has shaped Western Civilization, giving us our sense of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD