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Wharton School professor Zeke Hernandez provides an accessible, apolitical, and evidence-based look at the effects of immigration on our local communities and our nation.

Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah provide a meticulously researched work that stands at the intersection of economics, political philosophy and public administration to present an easily digestible book lays out the art and the science of the policymaking.

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....

Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s historic success.

The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Fourth Edition will be an invaluable resource for those embarking on their first stages of training. Well-established practitioners and even seasoned scholars will continue to find much to interest and stimulate them....

In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

This is the inspiring autobiography of Helen Keller, blind and deaf since childhood, who experiences the wonder and joys of discovery of the world around her and of literature....

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....

The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change....

By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it.... 

Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. She upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough questions....

Aviva Chomsky breaks down the concepts, terminology, and debates for activists, students, and anyone concerned about climate change. She argues that science is not enough to change course....

A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project....

The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....

Social scientists have adopted the practices of more traditional scientists - using randomized trials to design policies aimed at improving education, lowering crime, elevating employment, and improving living standards. The authors bring the lives of these radical researchers to life.... 

In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide listeners through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice....

The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....

Award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing provides a radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements—4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement....

From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair....

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy....

In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....

Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

Having a hard time figuring out your optimal Social Security claiming strategy? Navigating Social Security benefits can be a confusing process. Claiming at the wrong time can cost you and your heirs hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime. But it doesn't have to be intimidating. Industry insider Matt Feret helps simplify the process for you and makes it clear. With decades of experience in retirement and aging issues, Matt walks you through the Social Security maze, and gets you ready for the best time of your life...

In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a "meritocracy." In Higher Admissions, Nicholas Lemann reflects on the state of America's aspirational meritocracy and the enduring value and meaning of standardized testing.

Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible—and ready to implement—in twenty-first-century America.

Die Jahre der Coronapolitik haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Lockdowns und andere Maßnahmen waren eine massive Belastung. Senioren vereinsamten, Kinder wurden isoliert, Ungeimpfte diffamiert – die Liste an Menschenrechtsverletzungen ist lang. Damit diese Zeit nie vergessen wird, hat die Autorin die persönlichen Erlebnisse von Menschen dokumentiert, die in den Medien nicht vorkommen. Annette Creft beschreibt die gesellschaftliche Seite der Coronazeit den Hauptteil aber bilden Menschen, die sonst keine Stimme in der Öffentlichkeit haben.