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Elissa Strauss
When You Care

In this "urgent and necessary book" (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and comm…

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Jonathan Burkham
Migrant Midwest

The American heartland is poised for a demographic decline with very real consequences. Migrant Midwest tracks the history of population growth and its projected decline in the Midwest to highlight the ne…

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Robert G Hasson
Unaccompanied Children in America

How many unaccompanied children enter US territory every year? What challenges, dangers, and risk factors are they most likely to face on their migration journeys?What immigration policies and laws determ…

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regul…

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Edward Alden, Laurie Trautman
When the World Closed Its Doors

In When the World Closed Its Doors, Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman tell the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond to an external threat during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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Vivek Chibber
The Class Matrix

Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have made the second claim, sidelining materialism. Now, amid deepening in…

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Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre
The Making of Public Space

This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provis…

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Laura Mauldin
In Sickness and in Health

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses …

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Bridget Conley
Covid Diagnosed the System

The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical change -- nowhere more so than in Massachusetts, which had just passed major crimin…

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Bridget Conley
Covid Diagnosed the System

The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical change -- nowhere more so than in Massachusetts, which had just passed major crimin…

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Jennifer Carlson
Merchants of the Right

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right …

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We Are Civic Media

Through the experiences of grassroots practitioners working across a range of mediums and disciplines, this book offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicin…

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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 enforcem…

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Richard D Kahlenberg
Class Matters

"Richard Kahlenberg has been on a lifelong journey to expand social and economic opportunity and provide a much wider group of people the opportunity to have a place at the table. In this highly pers…

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Marion Nestle
The Fish Counter (Picador Shorts)

America's leading nutritionist teaches you how to navigate the fish counter. A standalone extract from the newly revised edition of her groundbreaking What to Eat (which is being reissued as What to Eat N…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee On National Statistics,
Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency

The 8th Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency supports the essential role of relevant, credible, trusted, independent, and innovative government statistics. Since 1992, this…

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Jonathan Balcombe
Fish Sense (Picador Shorts)

A quirky, intimate, and eye-opening look into the ways of thinking like a fish. An extract from the much-loved modern classic on the subject of fish consciousness, What a Fish Knows. Do fishes think? Do t…

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John Mcphee
They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad. A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee's twenty-sixth book, The Founding F…

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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Jennifer Marlene Randles
Living Diaper to Diaper

A revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families--through the humble diaper.Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden conse…

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