Hill and Wang, January 1966. Paper Back. Mild wear & slightly foxed edges & inside first blank pages. Large rectangle of darkened glue(?) verso of rear cover. Text is clean & without markings. Good reading copy of this classic 'indictment of slum life'. More
Harper & Row / Harper Torchbooks The Academy Library, January 1965. Paper Back. Worn, tanned spine, bookplate with name marked over affixed inside front cover. Another scribbled over name on half title page. Paper binding is starting to loosen but remains intact. More
Texas Wesleyan University, January 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
University of Minnesota Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce..... More
Criterion, January 1959. Cloth. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean & solid. 738 pages. In edgeworn jacket with one inch tear top front panel at spine & small chip top back panel. Tanning/darkening to spine & margins. NOT price clipped. Original price of $8.50 on front flap. More
BenBella Books, March 2020. Hardcover. Forget the speculation of pundits and media personalities. For anyone asking "Now what?" the answer is out there. You just have to know where to look. In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA..... More
Franklin Library, 1981. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2019. Hardcover. From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind--in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox..... More
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all..... More
Penguin Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2005. Trade Paperback. In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to..... More
Little, Brown and Company, May 2019. Hardcover. A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the..... More
Counterpoint, April 2020. Paper Back. Based on the provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, this memoir alternates between the examination of a working-class upbringing and a cultural analysis of the historical, psychological, and sociological sources that make up the roots of toxic masculinity and its impact on society. As..... More
All Points Books, June 2019. Hardcover. Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr..... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, April 2017. Paper Back. From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation. Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating into..... More
St. Martin's Press, July 2019. Hardcover. Elle's 30 BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER "A jaw-dropping investigation into the women's health industry." --Shelf-Awareness "A fascinating examination of the past and present of women's healthcare" --Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in..... More
Penguin Books, March 2020. Paper Back. "A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius."--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah "Poignant....important and illuminating."--The New York Times Book Review "Groundbreaking."--Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious..... More
Duke University Press Books, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that..... More
Duke University Press Books, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that..... More
Verso, October 2019. Paper Back. An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places..... More
Melville House, April 2019. Hardcover. ** A New York Times Bestseller ** "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."--Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019"..... More
Tarcher, December 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto. Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2018. Trade Paperback. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have..... More
Verso, March 2020. Hardcover. Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden's revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender..... More
