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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (HC) (2022)
9781839766268$24.95A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$24.95Subtotal: -
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us about the Future of Urban Life (PB) (2017)
9780062234735$17.992017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherIn the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose--a visionary in urban development and... -
Standing Our Ground: A Mother's Story (PB) (2020)
9781501187797$17.00From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and a mother who "turned her sorrow into a strategy and her mourning into a movement" (Hillary Clinton) comes the riveting memoir of a mother's loss and call to action for common-sense gun laws... -
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea (PB) (2017)
9780374536770$18.00A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area... -
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to Change the World (PB) (2021)
9780008444020$14.99'The best of England' The New Statesman'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.99Subtotal: -
How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (PB) (2019)
9781501173066$17.00"This book merits every American's serious consideration" (Vice President Joe Biden): from the Secretary of Education under President Obama, an exposé of the status quo that helps maintain a broken system at the expense of our kids' education, and... -
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust (PB) (2022)
9781250799142$18.99James Comey, former FBI Director and bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that... -
A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America (PB) (2022)
9781250798497$17.99Named a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews "A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency."... -
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement (PB) (2017)
9780262534420$19.95An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It... -
Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs (HC) (2016)
9780399589607$28.00A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and... -
The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and Amaxhosa in the Cape Colony (PB) (2020)
9781776094998$18.50Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution... -
The Black Boom (PB) (2022)
9781599475899$12.95As we leave behind the tumultuous year of 2020, we have the growing sense that most Americans are eager to calm our strident politics and move forward in a way that brings peace, justice, and prosperity to all citizens, but particularly to Black... -
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It (PB) (2019)
9780525432012$16.95In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America's core values--meritocracy, innovation,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.95Subtotal: -
Suburban Socialism: (Or Barbarism) (PB) (2022)
9781913462895$16.95Reflecting on his own landslide loss in conservative suburbia, Oly Durose asks how we can transform the urban outskirts of the status quo into centres of transformative change. In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party... -
Free Speech in an Open Society (PB) (1993)
9780679742135$19.00This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. "Intellectually venturesome. . . ... -
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (PB) (2022)
9781786630353$19.95An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further. In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$19.95Subtotal: