Social Sciences
Poverty, by America
Crown, March 2024. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The..... More
Poverty, by America
Crown, March 2023. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New..... More
Poverty, by America
Crown, March 2024. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The..... More
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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
White Fragility
Beacon Press, June 2018. Trade Paperback. The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the..... More
What's a Coal Miner to Do: The Mechanization of Coal Mining (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History)
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, January 1988. Hardcover. More
Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know about Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons, May 2021. Hardcover. A compulsively readable behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the weddings section of The New York Times--the good, bad, and just plain weird--through the eyes of a young reporter just as she's falling in love herself. Growing up in the south, where tradition reigns..... More
Trainwreck
Melville House, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself..... More
The Birth of Neurosis: Myth, Malady and the Victorians
Touchstone / Simon and Schuster, January 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Light user wear. Some small tan splotches along fore-edge. First Simon & Schuster paperback. Complete number line. [432 pages]. More
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Scribner, May 2017. Trade Paperback. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People). The daughter of a scientist who..... More
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Random House, February 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTESLLER - From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work--and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life "A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well..... More
Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Citadel, February 2024. Hardcover. From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with..... More
Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey
The MIT Press, April 2024. Paper Back. A gorgeously illustrated journey through psychedelics and their global history that explores how psychedelic visions have inspired and given meaning to humans throughout time. Interest in psychedelics has grown considerably in recent years--one might even say psychedelics are experiencing a renaissance. But these..... More
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Rodale Books, September 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Comfort Crisis asks: Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can't we ever get enough? "Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain's fixations, so you can..... More
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Mariner Books, August 2023. Hardcover. A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by..... More
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Owl Books, May 2002. Trade Paperback. The "New York Times" bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Ni"ckel and Dimed" has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She..... More
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
Metropolitan Books, June 2008. Hardcover. America in the 'aughts--hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, "The Worst Years of Our Lives," about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim..... More
Stork and the Plow
Putnam Adult, September 1995. Hardcover. America's most respected population experts offer solutions to the coming crisis of widespread starvation. A key to escaping this dilemma, the authors argue, is to increase the equity of all peoples in the world. When women are given power over their own bodies, birth rates..... More
Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the 'Pill Mill Killer'
Steerforth, April 2024. Hardcover. An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who's serving the opioid epidemic's longest term for illegal prescriptions -- four life sentences Written in the tradition of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and True Crime Addict, combining Dopesick's heart rending portrayal of..... More
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More