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Deepen your understanding of current events Image Elections, Economics and Politics Browse All See all items Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America Garrett Neiman Current price: $30.00 With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them. ... The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War Jeff Sharlet Current price: $28.95 An Instant New York Times Bestseller. One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. ... End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin Current price: $28.00 “Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. 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Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power Eleanor Herman Current price: $21.99 New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris. ... The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts Loren Grush Current price: $32.50 In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle. ... Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) Rachel Shteir Current price: $27.00 A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism “A lucid portrait of Friedan as a bold yet flawed advocate for women’s equality.”—Publishers Weekly ... 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Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America Garrett Neiman Current price: $30.00 With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them. ...
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War Jeff Sharlet Current price: $28.95 An Instant New York Times Bestseller. One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. ...
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin Current price: $28.00 “Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ...
The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic Stephen Vladeck Current price: $30.00 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exposé of the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors ...
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning Sarah Weinman Current price: $19.99 From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre ...
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy James Risen Current price: $32.00 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See Richard D. Kahlenberg Current price: $30.00 An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it ...
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD Current price: $30.00 An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives—and how we can fix them. ...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It Tobias Rose-Stockwell Current price: $29.00 Amazon's Best History Book of the Month for July 2023 ...
The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life M.T. Connolly Current price: $30.00 An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities. ...
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable Joanna Schwartz Current price: $30.00 An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing ...
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It Will Bunch Current price: $21.99 From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life ...
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson Current price: $29.99 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. ...
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy Lee McIntyre Current price: $14.95 A powerful, pocket-sized citizen’s guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier. ...
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America Cara Fitzpatrick Current price: $32.00 A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school ...
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma Mustafa Suleyman Current price: $32.50 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMin ...
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto Jonathan Taplin Current price: $30.00 An instant bestseller! ...
Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World Michèle Lamont Current price: $28.00 Acclaimed Harvard sociologist makes the case for reexamining what we value to prioritize recognition—the quest for respect—in an age that has been defined by growing inequality and the obsolescence of the American dream. ...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy David Corn Current price: $19.99 The Instant New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback! #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia. ...
Discounted Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Previous price: $28.99 Current price: $23.19 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die ...
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World John Vaillant Current price: $32.50 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The T ...
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future Peter Gleick Current price: $30.00 A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now ...
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life Johan Eklöf Current price: $26.00 This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth. ...
Discounted The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell Previous price: $29.00 Current price: $23.20 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! NATIONAL BESTSELLER Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection • The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice ...
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial David Lipsky Current price: $32.50 A New York Times Editors' Choice • A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 • A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book • A Next Big Idea Must-Read Book • A Library Journal What To Read In 2023 Book ...
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 Cathie Pelletier Current price: $17.95 A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National Bestseller ...
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future Oliver Franklin-Wallis Current price: $30.00 An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? ...
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas Karen Pinchin Current price: $30.00 **THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** ...
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Barry Lopez Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generati ...
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Madeline Ostrander Current price: $19.99 One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment ...
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods Lyndsie Bourgon Current price: $18.99 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTION ...
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Wesley Lowery Current price: $29.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist ...
Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad Tamara J. Walker Current price: $28.00 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores, a powerful history of living abroad while Black. ...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Maureen Ryan Current price: $32.50 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER ...
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Current price: $35.00 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller | An Obama Summer Reading List Pick ...
Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre In Her Own Words Viola Ford Fletcher, Ike Howard Current price: $29.99 "Every day, I have lived through the massacre. While our country may forget this history, I cannot." Viola Ford Fletcher ...
24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy Nora Neus Current price: $27.95 A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation ...
A Space for Us: A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups Michelle Cassandra Johnson Current price: $22.95 “A helpful introduction to facilitating affinity spaces in an inclusive, emergent, and trauma-informed way to foster the communal healing spaces that in turn ignite community action and liberation.”—Resmaa Menakem, best-selling author of My Grandmother’s Hands and Monsters in ...
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Kekla Magoon Current price: $19.99 A National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor Book ...
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey Current price: $30.00 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic ...
The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook Roxy Manning, Sarah Peyton Current price: $24.95 The Antiracist Heart delivers a unique path to antiracist activism and introspection by applying neuroscience exercises, questionnaires, and journaling prompts based on the book How to Have Antiracist Conversations. ...
How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy Roxy Manning Current price: $22.95 Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy. ...
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld T. J. English Current price: $22.99 From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. ...
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners Margaret A. Burnham Current price: $19.95 A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly ...
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future Robert P. Jones Current price: $29.99 Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy. ...
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Bettina L. Love Current price: $29.00 NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER ...
Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women Jaspreet Kaur Current price: $18.99 You might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece. ...
Discounted Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot Previous price: $32.50 Current price: $26.00 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. ...
Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism Macaela MacKenzie Current price: $30.00 An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality—on and off the field ...
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything Sarah Hill Current price: $18.00 An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know ...
Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood Allison Yarrow Current price: $30.00 "Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). ...
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent Lorissa Rinehart Current price: $32.00 The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. ...
The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat Eileen A. Bjorkman Current price: $30.00 This is the untold story of the women military aviators of the 1970s and 1980s who kicked open the door to fly in combat in 1993—along with the story of the women who paved the way before them. ...
Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future Anney Reese, Samantha McVey Current price: $31.99 The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You. ...
Discounted The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America Katherine Turk Previous price: $32.00 Current price: $25.60 "A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." —Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members. ...
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power Leah Redmond Chang Current price: $35.00 The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. ...
Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette Current price: $26.95 A breathtaking history of America’s trail-blazing female science journalists—and the timely lessons they can teach us about equity, access, collaboration, and persistence. ...
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Lena S. Andrews Current price: $32.99 National Bestseller "An ingenious look at WWII.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) ...
Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women Jaspreet Kaur Current price: $18.99 You might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece. ...
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power Eleanor Herman Current price: $21.99 New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris. ...
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts Loren Grush Current price: $32.50 In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle. ...
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) Rachel Shteir Current price: $27.00 A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism “A lucid portrait of Friedan as a bold yet flawed advocate for women’s equality.”—Publishers Weekly ...
New Release 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution Katherine Spillar (Editor) Current price: $50.00 The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice • A celebration of Ms.—the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, mother ...
New Release Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America Dahlia Lithwick Current price: $19.00 Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest An instant New York Times Bestseller! ...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Serhii Plokhy Current price: $30.00 An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe. ...
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl Markiyan Kamysh Current price: $22.00 “His is a voice that must be heard.” —Patti Smith “A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving."—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown ...
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent Lorissa Rinehart Current price: $32.00 The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. ...
No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir Jane Ferguson Current price: $29.99 "A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame ...
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine Christopher Miller Current price: $28.00 A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by the leading journalist of the conflict. ...
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Mikhail Zygar Current price: $30.00 From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)—the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing Ukraine, providing an unprecedented overview of the war for Ukrainian independence that affects us all. ...
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Current price: $30.00 An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. ...
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars Andrew Bacevich (Editor) Current price: $17.99 American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous. ...
Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter Thomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki Current price: $20.99 Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. Always Faithful entwines the stories of Marine Major Tom Schueman, and his friend and Afghan interpreter, Zainullah “Zak” Zaki, ...
Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD Jason Kander Current price: $19.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror Pardis Mahdavi Current price: $29.00 The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them. ...
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East Uri Kaufman Current price: $32.00 "Pacy and enthralling." —Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." —Senator Joseph I. Lieberman ...
