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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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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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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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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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Twentieth Century Society
100 20th-Century Sports and Leisure Buildings

100 20th Century Sports and Leisure Buildings gives a fascinating insight into the spaces where we play from swimming pools and skate parks to cricket pavilions and ice rinks, this book explores some of t…

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Evelyn D Ravuri
Displacing the Ordinary City

For decades, gentrification research has predominantly focused on large cities. Arguing that gentrification has occurred throughout the urban hierarchy, Ravuri fills this gap in the literature by analyzin…

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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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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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Brodie Ramin
Written in Blood

Written in Blood is an urgent exploration of how disasters happen -- and how they can be prevented.Award-winning author and physician Brodie Ramin, trained in prevention through his work in primary care a…

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Shefali Luthra
Undue Burden

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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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Scott W. Berg
The Burning of the World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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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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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Lucy Schiller
Aging Out

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has …

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The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 2nd EditionGlobal Insights on Navigating Today's Complex CrisesNow in its second edition, The Handbook of International Crisis and Ris…

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Kevin Fagan
The Lost and the Found

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

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Geography in the 21st Century

These 40 chronologically arranged entries examine the key events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st Century.

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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 movem…

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Family and Disability Activism

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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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 movem…

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