Public Affairs & Policy

It's The Pesticide On Our Dinner Plates, A Chemical So Pervasive It's In The Air We Breathe, Our Water, Our Soil, And Even Found Increasingly In Our Own Bod...

The first big book on one of the most overlooked episodes in Canadian history, and the origin of today's greatest national debate, Let the Eastern Bastards ...

An Unprecedented Behind-the-scenes Portrait Of The Trump Presidency From The Anonymous Senior Official Whose First Words Of Warning About The President Rock...

Alateen, part of the Al-Anon Family groups is a fellowship of young people whose lives have been affected by alcoholism in a family member or close friend.....

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…m...

WINNER 2014 – Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionForget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth...

One Of The Country's Leading Scholars On Economics And Social Policy, Isabel Sawhill Addresses The Enormous Divisions In American Society--economic, Cultura...

Legacy And Promise For Social Justice Funding : Charitable Foundations And Progressive Social Movements, Past And Present / Susan A. Ostrander -- Liberal Fo...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

A groundbreaking analysis of political hobbyism—treating politics like a spectator sport—and an urgent and timely call to arms for the many well-meaning...

Tells The Story Of The Conservative Economists Espousing Free Market And Deregulatory Policies During The Four Decades Between 1969 And 2008. Leading Figure...

Zones Of Social Abandonment Are Emerging Everywhere In Brazil's Big Cities - Places Like Vita, Where The Unwanted, The Mentally Ill, The Sick, And The Homel...

Derrick Jensen's most ambitious, important, and best book to date. Publishers Weekly The author, who in earlier books like The Culture of Make Believe dis...

A shocking expose of the CIA’s role as drug baron. On March 18, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, told astounded US Reps that the CIA had ma...

This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar: child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist, and educator. In it he recounts the sources of inspi...

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individual...

In Her First Work Of Nonfiction, Winner Of The 2018 Unesco City Of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an Author Whose Exploration Of The Exile's Predi...

This readable and comprehensive introduction to the principles of public-policy analysis is the first book to integrate the tools students need to analyze ...

Displaying Gleaming New Shopping Centers And Refurbished Row Houses, Harlem Today Bears Little Resemblance To The Neighborhood Of The Midcentury Urban Crisi...

Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are con...

"The Policy Governance Fieldbook is not a theoretical treatise, but a practical study. Its authors are concerned with real people in real organizations wit...

Arguing that changing cultures and biological changes have rendered traditional ways of thinking obsolete, the authors advocate a new set of thoughts and re...

Tough Questions, Great Answers offers specific guidance for responding to difficult patient questions, such as: How do you set your fees? Do you guarantee y...

With its practical, hands-on approach, this text is perfect for counselors, human service workers, law enforcement, nurses, psychologists, social workers ...

Building On The Success Of Its Second Edition, The Third Edition Of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader Provide A Generous Selection Of Classic And Con...

written By A Practicing Architect And Gerontologist, The Complete Guide To Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home Shows You How To Create A Home Environment That ...

Remember When It All Seemed To Be Getting Better? Before Trump Happened? What Went Wrong, And What Can We Do About It? Naomi Klein - Scourge Of Brand Bullie...

Examines How The Wealthy Classes Have Contributed To Growing Inequality In Society And Explains How The Quest To Increase Wealth Has Hindered The Country's ...

The Election Happened, Remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-randall, Then Deputy Secretary Of The Department Of Energy. And Then There Was Radio Silence. Across All...

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015—an...

In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To en...

This Volume Shows How Public And Private Forms Of Power Regulate Three Main Aspects Of Social Reproduction: Biological Reproduction; Reproduction Of Labour ...

In fall 2015, the newly elected Trudeau government endorsed the Paris Agreement and promised to tackle global warming. In 2016, it released a major report w...

this Guide Summarizes Lessons Learned By Studying Successful Community-building Initiatives In Hundreds Of Neighborhoods Across The U.s. It Outlines What Lo...

In Addition To Environmental Change, The Structure And Trends Of Global Politics And The Economy Are Also Changing As More Countries Join The Ranks Of The W...

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-L...

A Healthy Society Draws On One Doctor's Experience In Family Practice, Community Building, And Politics To Envision A New Approach To Politics - And A Healt...

"Black's Manifesto reminds us who we were and, therefore, who we are. In doing so, he lays the groundwork for us to consider who we might yet become." - J...

A Beautiful, Full-color Book Showcasing 20 Best Practice Designs From Ecovillages Around The World--Categories: Arts & Photography ArchitectureSustainab...

Central Bankers Have Emerged From The Financial Crisis As The Third Great Pillar Of Unelected Power Alongside The Judiciary And The Military. They Pull The ...

As A Commentator, Citizen, And Advisor, Daniel Yankelovich Has Had A Long Career Reporting And Analyzing National Issues, Trends, And Opinions. Here, He Sha...

Japan To 1600 Surveys Japanese Historical Development From The First Evidence Of Human Habitation In The Archipelago To The Consolidation Of Political Power...

In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues tha...

Watch a video trailer for The Weather Makers (Requires Flash Player. May take a few minutes to load.) Rarely has there been a time when the fate of every o...

How anyone can become a data ninja From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as...

Is it possible to design a forest policy that satisfies ethical and environmental concerns and is acceptable to business, labour and First Nations represen...

Discusses The Spate Of Wall-building By Countries Around The World And Considers The Reasons Why Walls Are Being Built In An Increasingly Globalized World I...

this New Edition Brings This Study Of Inner-city Life Up To Date. publishers Weekly anthropologist Bourgois Chose Addicts, Thieves, And [drug] Dealers To ...