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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Unmasking Autism

    Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

    A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing AutismFor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania

    Series series Pennsylvania History
    In her concise history Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, Beverly Tomek corrects the long-held notion that slavery in the North was “not so bad” as, or somehow “more humane” than, in the South due to the presence of abolitionists. While the Quaker presence focused on moral and practical opposition to bondage, slavery was ubiquitous. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania was the first state to pass an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • There's Always This Year

    On Basketball and Ascension

    A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop DreamsGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of ... 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

  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    New York Times Bestseller: A “marvelous” account of how the tiny sect of Christianity rapidly became the dominant religion in the West (Reza Aslan, New York Times–bestselling author of Zealot).How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire become the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Doppelganger

    A Trip into the Mirror World

    by Naomi Klein ...
    A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One of Slate’s ten best books of 2023 | A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 | One of Time’s ten best books of 2023 | **Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book A... ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • Unhumans

    The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)

    If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming.The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed—to deplatform, debank, destroy. This is the daily news, yet none of it’s new. Patterns from the past make sense ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Selling the Dream

    The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

    by Jane Marie ...
    A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for March 2024 * A Bustle Best New Book of Spring 2024Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Masiosare, nuestro extraño enemigo

    Después del éxito rotundo de Los mitos que nos dieron traumas, llega la esperada segunda parte.México necesita una transformación. Sólo tú puedes hacerla.Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nuevamente nos quita la venda de los ojos para hacernos responsables del país y de sus circunstancias.Masiosare se esconde en el pasado, en la profundidad de nuestramente, y detrás de muchos de nuestros mitos. Está o... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Los mitos que nos dieron traumas

    México en el divan: cinco sesiones para superar el pasado

    Juan Miguel Zunzunegui disecciona múltiples aspectos sociales y políticos de eso que solemos llamar "México"; analiza las condiciones que han evitado su progreso y que lo han configurado como una nación repleta de traumas históricos.Vamos a mandar a México a unas cuantas sesiones de psicoterapia. Lo acostaremos en el diván y lo enfrentaremos contra sí mismo, para ver si la lógica y la razón logran ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tipping Point

    How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

    From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Trouble with White Women

    A Counterhistory of Feminism

    by Kyla Schuller ...
    An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Why New Orleans Matters

    by Tom Piazza ...
    Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring a smile to the face of someone who has never even set foot there?What is the meaning of a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wheelchair Warrior

    Gangs, Disability, and Basketball

    Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended college and made wheelchair basketball his passion—ultimately becoming a star athlete and playing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lo que se siente pensar o la cultura como psicología

    La cultura es sentir lo que se piensa y pensar lo que se siente.Ya estamos cansados de tanta inteligencia y tan poca sensatez.Esta frase parece ser la crítica, la queja, el motivo, la esperanza y el resumen de esta obra que pone en tela de juicio las aproximaciones que han utilizado las ciencias sociales para entender y transformar la realidad. A lo largo de ella, el autor busca la manera de hacer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Detroit Project

    Three Plays

    Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • Sidelined

    Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

    by Julie DiCaro ...
    “Sidelined is the feminist sports book we've all been waiting for.”—Jessica ValentiShrill meets Brotopia in this personal and researched look at women's rights and issues through the lens of sports, from an award-winning sports journalist and women's advocateIn a society that is digging deep into the misogyny underlying our traditions and media, the world of sports is espec... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD