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Report copyright infringementby Bernie Sanders (Author)"Oligarchy is a system in which a small number of extremely wealthy individuals control the economic, political, and media life of a nation. It is a system in which ordinary people have very little power to determine the future of their country. If you're an American, it is the system in which you're living. That must change. In the wealthiest nation on earth we must build a political movement that creates a government that represents all...

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Borden (Author)For readers of Fantasyland and Cultish, a colorful and enlightening pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all. Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained ...

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Pinker (Author)From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or "out there," is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Co...

The Last Supper: How to Overcome the Coming Food Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Kass (Author)A former senior food policy advisor to President Obama breaks down how changing the way we eat can help fix the climate crisis, from rethinking daily habits to investing in new technology. "Smart, timely, and full of purpose."--Michelle Obama"A wake-up call for the future of our planet."--Chef José Andrés"An impressively compelling manifesto for food system transformation."--Marion NestleAs a chef in high-end restaurants, and later, in the home...

The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--And How to Overcome It

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Report copyright infringementby James Kimmel (Author)In this definitive book on revenge, psychiatry researcher James Kimmel, Jr. exposes the unseen neurobiological cause of violence--a compulsive desire for retribution--and offers a profound new understanding of human behavior and breakthrough framework for making our lives and communities safer. "This riveting, science-based exploration of why we feel pleasure from other people's pain is a must-read."--Anna Lembke, MD, author of Dopamine Nat...

Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Gregg (Author)A playful deep dive into anthropomorphism (our peculiar tendency to humanize the nonhuman) that will resonate with anyone who has thrown a birthday party for their dog. Bestselling science writer Justin Gregg explores the science behind our instinct to see ourselves in the creatures and objects around us. Ours is a world filled with emotional support alligators, a woman who married her briefcase, and Soviet super babies that drink dolphin ...

In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms

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Report copyright infringementby William J. Kole (Author)In this unsettling investigation into white evangelicals' fusion of the gospel and guns, veteran journalist William J. Kole exposes how some Christians are standing in the way of reasonable restrictions on firearms--and how it makes us all less safe. On the evening that the bass player on his worship team casually showed him his handgun, the author's world shifted. In that moment, Kole--who was the AP's New England bureau chief when a gu...

The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt

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Report copyright infringementby Åsne Seierstad (Author)"An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation."--Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity From the internationally bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an expansive, deeply felt portrait of Afghanistan, examining the human cost of wars fought, lost, and won. From Soviet occupation to the rise of the Taliban, from the outbreak of the W...

Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Miller-Idriss (Author)The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West--from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentator What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, o...

Thrive: How the Science of the Adolescent Brain Helps Us Imagine a Better Future for All Children

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa M. Lawson (Author), Wes Moore (Foreword by)A bold new argument for harnessing brain science to help young people realize their full potential, from the noted business and foundation leader "In the last decade, a growing body of longitudinal neuroimaging research has demonstrated that adolescence is a period of continued brain growth and change, challenging longstanding assumptions that the brain was largely finished maturing by puberty." -National Institut...

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising

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Report copyright infringementby Fatemeh Jamalpour (Author), Nilo Tabrizy (Author)A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists "Unlike anything I've read . . . A searing, courageous, and ultimately beautiful book filled with the spirit of the movement that it covers." --Ben Rhodes, author of The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died afte...

That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Szetela (Author)An alarming exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media--when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor. In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Although progressives are correct to be focused on right-wing attempts at legislative c...

Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Author), Awo Fatokun Faniyii (Foreword by), Keri Facer (Afterword by)The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones--and it's past time to face it. The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse--includes reflections, exercises, and prompts Climate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our fu...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark R. Levin (Author)The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star Mark R. Levin delivers a profound analysis of the philosophy and structure of power and the critical impact of liberty on our collective future. Throughout history, from ancient civilizations to modern Western republics, power has been used to both oppress and liberate. To reward and exploit. To destroy and build. Monarchs, dictators, and elites who impose ...

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Chatterton Williams (Author)An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice ("anti-racist") orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences. In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of th...

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

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Report copyright infringementby Bench Ansfield (Author)"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color.Yet as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in F...

Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Rowe (Author)A compelling exploration of the broken American foster care system, told through the stories of six former foster youth. This powerful narrative nonfiction book delves into the systemic failures that lead many foster children into the criminal justice system, highlighting the urgent need for reform. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in child welfare, social justice, and the transformative power of the best narrative nonfictio...

And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Foscarinis (Author)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 Homelessness Law Center Maria Foscarinis reveals the human impact of the housing crisis by sharing personal stories and examining the flawed policies that have perpetuated it. As millions face rising housing costs and encampments spread n...

The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Shaikh (Author)A powerful and heartwarming exploration of cuisine in conflict zones, highlighting the courageous persistence of people struggling to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence. "The Last Sweet Bite tells the powerful and personal stories of the heroic home cooks fighting to keep their food--and their identity--alive."--José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen War changes every part of human culture: art, e...

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Snyder (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "bracing" (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from a "public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" (The New York Times)--now in hardcover for the first time "Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting bu...

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara McQuade (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER UPDATED EDITION: The MSNBC legal analyst explores the impact of disinformation after the 2024 presidential election--and what Americans can do before it's too late. "A comprehensive guide to the dynamics of disinformation and a necessary call to theethical commitment to truth that all democracies require." --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as trut...

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Author)The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads.Traditional African/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a pl...

Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements

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Report copyright infringementby Shanelle Matthews (Editor), Marzena Zukowska (Editor), Radcomms (Editor)From an international cast of leading activist communicators, a timely and instructive handbook for telling stories that change the world The twenty-first century has seen a profound shift in the global sociopolitical and economic landscape, shaped by seismic interventions ranging from the War on Terror to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2000 and 2024, social movements like Black Lives Matte...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Schulman (Author)From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the inherent psychological and social challenges to solidarity movements, and what that means for the future For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, awa...

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Schaller (Author), Paul Waldman (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens--who are also the least likely to defend its core principles "This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump."--David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographi...

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

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Report copyright infringementby Quinn Slobodian (Author)How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory--but they didn't. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote. To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to ...

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Osnos (Author)From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape--and sometimes warp--our social and political landscape. The ultrarich hold more of America's wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos's incisive repo...

The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future

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Report copyright infringementby Carter Sherman (Author)Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v. Wade, post-#MeToo America--and how the challenges they face are harbingers of what's coming for the rest of us. As a college student, award-winning journalist Carter Sherman, along with several members of her sorority, was interviewed by a writer looking for salacious details about their sex lives. But the sex the gi...

Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back

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Report copyright infringementby Joan C. Williams (Author)An eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US. Is there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the class dynamics driving American politics. The far right manipulates class anger to...

How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity - Hardcover

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by Stuart Getty (Author), Brooke Thyng (Illustrator)"This tender, smart, personal book is a gift. Stuart Getty generously shows us, with witty illustrations and kind humor, the hows and whys of they/them pronouns. A wonderful and necessary resource that is a delight to read."--Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot and Valencia What does nonbinary really mean? What is gender nonconforming? And isn't they a plural pronoun? In this charming and disarming guide, a real-life they-using genderqueer ...

On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Murray (Author)In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a side.Murray is not Jewish and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the biggest, deepest, longest lies in history. Israel's commitment to fundamental Western values--capit...

The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West

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Report copyright infringementby Amitav Acharya (Author)The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, offering a "timely" (Odd Arne Westad, coauthor of The Great Transformation) argument that the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers--especially China--threaten to unravel today's Western-led world order. Many fear ...