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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Margaret Geneva Long · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle... |
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Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
CHARLIE LEDUFF · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President--at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was thereIn... |
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People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Robert W McChesney · Nation Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The consequence of the technological revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people... |
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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY · The Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to comprehensively break down the politics and tensions among the countries of the western Pacific, by a foreign correspondent who has witnessed it firsthandIn the sphere of modern international politics, few regions have been as hotly contested as Asia, an area that President... |
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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives
Helen Pearson · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet,... |
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Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
Reihan Salam · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Will the America of the future be peaceful and united, or it will be wracked by intense ethnic and class conflicts that will undermine our most cherished ideals? Reihan Salam, one of today's brightest young conservatives, argues that the answer hinges on how we as a society choose to manage... |
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Jason DeParle · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas and her family in the Manila slums thirty years... |
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil S. Amrith · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts,... |
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred days, showing... |
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