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Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence
Samantha J. Simon - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers... |
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H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z
Elizabeth Kolbert - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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In twenty-six essays - one for each letter of the alphabet - the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.. Climate change resists narrative - and yet some... |
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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
Teresa Ghilarducci - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States - and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all.... |
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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.
Something strange is going on in the cosmos.... |
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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon
Lyn Slater - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon,"brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental... |
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot... |
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Sarah Scoles - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite... |
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling... |
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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Orisanmi Burton - University of California Press
Format: Paperback
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A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton... |
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