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  • Why SNAP Works

    A Political History—and Defense—of the Food Stamp Program

    by Christopher Bosso ...
    The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the nation’s largest government effort for helping low-income Americans obtain an adequate diet. How did SNAP, formerly the food stamp program, evolve from a Depression-era project to use up surplus goods into America’s foundational food assistance ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Feeding Cities

    Improving local food access, security, and resilience

    Edited by Christopher Bosso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Governing Uncertainty

    Environmental Regulation in the Age of Nanotechnology

    Edited by Christopher Bosso ...
    Nanotechnology promises to transform the materials of everyday life, leading to smaller and more powerful computers, more durable plastics and fabrics, cheap and effective water purification systems, more efficient solar panels and storage batteries, and medical devices capable of tracking down and killing cancer cells or treating neurological diseases. Policy analysts predict a radical change in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

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    “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money, and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times).A New York Times bestseller that unveils Fifteen Central Park West, the legendary Manhattan luxury ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Madge’s story

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Series Book 1 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Madge’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“On the morning of her Rowntrees job interview, on a warm Monday morning in July 1932, Fourteen-year-old Madge Fisher stood fidgeting in the hallway of her terraced house while her mother, Margaret, pinned ... Read more

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  • American Vertigo

    Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    by Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today?To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.The result isAmerican Vertigo, a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Outpost

    A Diplomat at Work

    by Christopher R. Hill ...
    A “candid, behind-the-scenes” (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding American Politics, Second Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, J. Matthew Wilson, Douglas Koopman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Savage Inequalities

    Children in America's Schools

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system. For two years, he visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington, D.C., and from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • When Courts and Congress Collide

    The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System

    by Charles Gardner Geyh ...
    "This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."-Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley"Professor Geyh has written a wise and timely book that is informed by the author's broad and deep experience working with the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • This Side of Home

    by Ms Renée Watson ...
    Does growing up have to mean growing apart? From Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes a poignant novel about love for home and for ourselves, embracing change, and what it means to grow up.Identical twins Maya and Nikki have always agreed on the important things-their friends, the right boys, their plans for college and the future. But before senior year ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Life & Energy in Agriculture

    by Arden B. Andersen ...
    The energies in fertilizers and in the cosmos do not often move needles, but they preside over crop production. As this manual makes clear, through learning to tap and use "life-force energy" it is possible to develop food production practices that are both high quality and nondestructive. Dr. Arden B. Andersen begins his work with the premise that 'energy is everything'. Through this axiomatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD