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Steve Hilton
Califailure

"An examination of the failures of governance in California"--

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The world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of ho…

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Dan Gaylin
Fact Forward

Praise for FACT FORWARD"As an education leader and policymaker, I've seen how good data, properly understood and wisely used, can drive real and lasting change. Dan Gaylin's Fact Forward shows why da…

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Jeffrey H Cohen
Eating Grasshoppers

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.

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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Teresa M Mares
Will Work for Food

Examining the essential role--and exploitation--of frontline workers across the food chain.Consumers are demanding a healthier and more sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion.…

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Kathryn Cramer Brownell
24/7 Politics

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by …

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Lee Cadesky
Grub

We eat multiple times a day, yet most of us have no idea what food actually is, where it comes from, or what forces will shape our meals in the future.What is food? Why do we eat what we eat? And what kin…

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Policing Not Protecting Families

"Policing Not Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance critically analyzes how the U.S. child welfare system surveils and polices poor families, especially poor Black and Native fami…

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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Marietje Schaake
The Tech Coup

A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracyOver the past decades, under the cover of…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Mark Daley
Safe

"A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activi…

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Sharon K Rudy
The Global Health Career

"This book is an indispensable resource for anyone passionate about making a difference in the field of international public health. Having helped hundreds of global health professionals establish, g…

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Jason de Le n
Soldiers and Kings

Penguin Publishing Group

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 • An NPR Book We Love 2024 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 "A w…

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David Zweig
An Abundance of Caution

"Investigates the initial decisions that led to school closures in the spring of 2020, and looks at why so many schools remained closed despite mounting evidence that schools could be safely reopened…

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Finn Tarp, Rachel M Gisselquist, Ines A Ferreira
Dimensions of Inequality

An authoritative, open access introduction to how and why inequality matters for individuals and societies, with ample in-depth illustrative examples from the Global South.

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Fredrick E Vars
Through the Fire

About one-fifth of the adult population in the U.S. experiences mental illness in any given year -- that's over 50 million people. Most shockingly, more than half of those people receive no treatment at a…

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