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King : A Life
Eig, JonathanMacmillan Audio 2023 UnabridgedWinner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won mu...
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The Genetic Lottery : Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Harden, Kathryn PaigePrinceton University Press 2021A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DN...
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Work Won't Love You Back : How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Jaffe, SarahHachette Book Group 2021 UnabridgedA deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over...
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Why Didn't We Riot? : A Black Man in Trumpland
Bailey, Issac J.Other Press 2020In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump's America. South Carolina–based journalist Issac J....
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What Can I Do? : My Path from Climate Despair to Action
Fonda, JanePenguin Publishing Group 2020A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we...
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The Vanished Queen
Campbell, LisbethS&S/Saga Press 2020A stunning blend of vivid fantasy and political drama, The Vanished Queen is the timely story of a young resistance fighter working to overthrow a totalitarian ruler's regime of te...
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Capital and Ideology
Piketty, ThomasHarvard University Press 2020A New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing crit...
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Arguing with Zombies : Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Krugman, PaulW. W. Norton & Company 2020New York Times Bestseller An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning ec...
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How to Be an Antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X.Random House Publishing Group 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting rac...
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Trick Mirror : Reflections on Self-Delusion
Tolentino, JiaHarperCollins Publishers 2019A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith We are living in the era of the self, in a...
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The Levelling : What's Next After Globalization
O'Sullivan, MichaelHachette Audio 2019 UnabridgedA brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions. The world is at...
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Where We Go from Here : Two Years in the Resistance
Sanders, BernieMacmillan Audio 2018 UnabridgedSenator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose...
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Bullshit Jobs: a Theory
Graeber, DavidSimon & Schuster 2018From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—"a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate" (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise o...
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Hired : Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
Bloodworth, JamesAtlantic Books 2018Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019 The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018'A...
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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
Schweiger, Gottfried; Graf, GunterSpringer 2015 1. editionTable of contents 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Child Poverty Gottfried Schweiger, Gunter Graf 2. Social Justice for Children — A Capability ApproachGottfried Schweiger, Gunter G...
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Requiem for the American Dream : The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Chomsky, NoamSeven Stories Press 2017A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, pati...
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Feminism : Reinventing the F-Word
Higgins, Nadia AbushanabLerner Publishing Group 2016While most people say they believe in equal rights, the word feminism—America's new F-word—makes people uncomfortable. Explore the history of US feminism through pioneers such as E...
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Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Stevenson, BryanScribe Publications Pty Ltd 2015WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION Now a majo...
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The Divide : American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Taibbi, MattRandom House Publishing Group 2014NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the...
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Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century
Dillon, MicheleJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2014 2. editionThe extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth i...