Basic Books, November 2023. Hardcover. A sociologist explores why "green cities" won't fix everything--and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure..... More
Basic Books, November 2023. Hardcover. The definitive history of the idea of equality--and why we're so ambivalent about it Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As much..... More
Gotham, April 2006. Trade Paperback. The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world--period. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She..... More
Avery, October 2023. Paper Back. A New York Times bestseller One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been..... More
Verso, November 2023. Hardcover. Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades? Questions of care, intimacy, education, meaningful work, and social engagement lie at the core of our ability to..... More
Random House, October 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks..... More
Penguin Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers..... More
MCD, May 2023. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023 A TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2023, A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2023 BY CHIGAO PUBLIC LIBRARY A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2023. Hardcover. A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York Magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and Noble Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2023. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023 "I've been raving about Naomi Klein's Doppelganger . . . I can't think of another text that better captures the berserk period we're living through." --Michelle Goldberg..... More
Seal Press, September 2019. Trade Paperback. In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2020. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis--and charts a way out. "An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America..... More
Princeton University Press, 1973. Reprint. Soft Cover. 3rd prnting. Octavo with curling front cover toward fore-edge. Heavy dust stains and darkening. Heavily underlined. [181 pages]. More
Oxford University Press / Galaxy, February, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Well worn. Rubbing. Some few scattering marginal markings & underlinings. Cover design by Yaroslava. [234 pages]. More
PublicAffairs, December 2023. Paper Back. An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself and an essential companion book to the new documentary America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and..... More
Hogarth, February 2023. Hardcover. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem). "Cristina Rivera..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2022. Paper Back. From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Hailed for their "colorful, smooth, and wonderfully engaging" writing (Smithsonian), Tom Standage's fleet-footed..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023. Hardcover. Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California's Coachella Valley--but the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Paper Back. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that..... More
Harper, November 2023. Hardcover. "Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true."--Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The..... More
Random House, October 2023. Hardcover. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A "journalistic masterpiece" (The New Yorker) about a nation careening into violent autocracy--told through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens--from a reporter of international renown "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked..... More
University of California Press, October 2022. Paper Back. An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced..... More
Celadon Books, October 2023. Paper Back. **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "It's a mark of the highest honor when I say it's even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'." --The New York Times From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir..... More
Celadon Books, October 2023. Paper Back. "Pringle's fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability." --The New York Times For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption..... More
University of Chicago Press, November 2023. Hardcover. A visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience--being stuck in traffic. But things weren't always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most..... More
