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Michael J Graetz
The Power to Destroy

How the antitax fringe went mainstream---and now threatens America's futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards---and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reas…

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

"From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine, to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the…

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Wen Stephenson
Learning to Live in the Dark

In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After t…

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futurism

"Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. …

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James Dougherty, Charles C Bohl
The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual co…

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Brad Swanson
Profit vs. Progress

Why socially responsible investment promises to make investors richer and the world better---but fails at both.Wall Street thrives by telling investors that clever financial strategies can reverse the tra…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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Auden Schendler
Terrible Beauty

"Apple calls its headquarters the greenest building on Earth. Microsoft announces an ambitious commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring an oil conference in Saudi Arabia. Ameri…

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The Art of Scaling

From a multidisciplinary viewpoint, this book introduces fresh insights into the concept of scaling by examining scalability within security contexts.

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Richard Holden
Money in the Twenty-First Century

"A layperson's guide to the way in which digital currencies may evolve over the coming decades and what this means for government-issued currency. This is the issue that will confront policy makers. …

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Petros C Mavroidis
Industrial Policy, National Security, and the Perilous Plight of the Wto

The WTO is facing an unprecedented crisis, one which threatens to critically erode its relevance and destabilize global trade. Petros C. Mavroidis's new book provides insight into current international tr…

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Sarah Fouts
Rebuilding New Orleans

Reveals how after Hurricane Katrina, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

"Liza Grandia expertly weaves together ethnographic narrative, Maya agricultural knowledge, and legal sleuthing to shine light on maize- and seed-related activism in the face of transnational corpora…

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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 anyo…

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Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan
The Sustainability Class

"A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned conc…

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Robert N Spengler
Nature's Greatest Success

"A compelling case for decoupling domestication from the yoke of human dominance and intentionality and instead understanding it as a pervasive and ages-old coevolutionary process. Spengler integrate…

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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 anyo…

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Carissa Veliz
Prophecy

From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies---the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthca…

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Agustina Paglayan
Raised to Obey

"How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly every country today has universal primary education.…

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Patricia a McCoy
Sharing Risk

"Risk sharing is central to the US social contract, but too much risk has been shifted to households while new risks have been ignored. Professor McCoy's book brilliantly addresses these critical gap…

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