High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Harper Paperbacks, February 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Social Science (Sociology)
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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Vintage International)
Vintage, November 2008. Trade Paperback. From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and..... More
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Counterpoint, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from..... More
Having and Being Had
Riverhead Books, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . .... More
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Seven Stories Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they..... More
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
Harper Design, May 2022. Hardcover. In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women. "This book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger..... More
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers (Untold Lives)
Biblioasis, August 2021. Trade Paperback. Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize - A Globe and Mail Book of the Year - A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland..... More
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Mariner Books Classics, August 2001. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (The New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James..... More
The Female Eunuch
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, October 2008. Trade Paperback. More
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Modern Library, September 2011. Hardcover. More
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
Random House, January 2023. Hardcover. More
Power of Women
Flatiron Books, September 2022. Trade Paperback. From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the..... More
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Hardcover. More
Regarding the Pain of Others
Picador, February 2004. Trade Paperback. A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question..... More
The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
New Press, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel oeuvre The Studs Terkel Reader, originally published under the title My American Century, collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each..... More
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
The New Press, February 1997. Trade Paperback. Studs Terkel's classic oral history of Americans' working lives--and the inspiration for Barack Obama's new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to..... More
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