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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for any…

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Sara Martucci
There Was Nothing There

"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those…

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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three …

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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Christian Bjørnskov
Social Trust in the Nordic World

Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world. Danes in particular trust other people and organizations--including strangers, businesses, governments, law enforceme…

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Jason M Barr
Cities in the Sky

"Fascinating." ---Daily Mail"Informative." ---Publishers WeeklyFrom one of the world's top experts on the history of skyscrapers---a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for s…

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Amanda Becker
You Must Stand Up

The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

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Maria Foscarinis
And Housing for All

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis.In And Housing for All , founder of the National Hom…

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Andrea Louise Campbell
Taxation and Resentment

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practiceMost Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more. But the specific tax policies that most fa…

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Brodie Ramin
Written in Blood

Written in Blood, by physician and author Brodie Ramin, draws on lessons from past disasters to argue that proactive, preventative strategies can reduce risks and help avert crises - in our personal lives…

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Scott W Berg
The Burning of the World

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker ) story of the Gre…

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Shefali Luthra
Undue Burden

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction • A TIME Best Book of 2024 • Longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall…

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Sonali Kolhatkar
Talking about Abolition

"Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream d…

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Jason M Barr
Cities in the Sky

From one of the world's foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers comes the story of the global quest for skyscrapers in the 21st century.

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Eva Fedderly
These Walls

"A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice." ---Alex Vitale, author ofThe End of PolicingIn the …

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Agonistic Assemblies

"This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the relevance of small-scale and decentralized spatial formats of local knowledge production to community building and embedded poli…

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Shawn Micallef,
Stroll, Updated Edition

"The updated edition of a Toronto favorite meanders around some of the city's unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkable What is the 'Toronto look'? Glass skyscrapers rise beside V…

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Josephine Ensign
Way Home

"This is a work of narrative nonfiction set in Seattle-King County, Washington, that explores the contemporary landscape of homelessness with an emphasis on innovative local solutions"--

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Maarten A Hajer, Jeroen Oomen
Captured Futures

In this radical age, environmental politics 'as we know it' cannot deliver. To change this, Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen suggest a new, more cultural approach to environmental politics with new disco…

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Andrew Dan Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Diego Chaves-Gonzalez, Ariel G Ruiz Soto
On the Move

"The Americas is a region on the move and is both the source and recipient of some of the largest migrations in the world today. While much scholarship and public commentary focus on the considerable…

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Andrew Dan Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Diego Chaves-Gonzalez, Ariel G Ruiz Soto
On the Move

"The Americas is a region on the move and is both the source and recipient of some of the largest migrations in the world today. While much scholarship and public commentary focus on the considerable…

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