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Knowledge resistance: How we avoid insight from others
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society’s many problems? In a world of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’ that som...
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of tra...
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green sp...
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The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from...
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The Division of Labor in Society
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social ...
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The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /New Third Edition! If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to...
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Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs?Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this ques...
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020• A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice• California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for...
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His rese...
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet ...
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the ...
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Haven in a Heartless World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our butto...
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back?"—Lev Grossman, TimeWhen award-winning...
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China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adopt...
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse a...
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is n...
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Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Winner of the James Beard Cookbook of the Year award, Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine combines delicious recipes of Appalachia...
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Places in My Neighborhood
PaperbackOriginal price $7.29 - Original price $7.29Original price $7.29$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /A neighborhood has homes and stores. There are hospitals and libraries too. Which places do you see in your neighborhood? Product DetailsISBN-13:...
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place i...
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Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father di...
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The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023"Groundbreaking" —Next Big Idea Club"This book helps us live happier, successful, and more fulfilling l...
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existenti...
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The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's Central Valley
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This suspenseful true story of a drug cartel hitman who got away with murder after murder in California's Central Valley over three decades revea...
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The Fall of Public Man
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author. A sweeping, f...
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