 | Africa's Turn?
Edward Miguel; Foreword by William R. Easterly
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.
Cloth / April 2009
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 | After America's Midlife Crisis
Michael Gecan
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.
Cloth / September 2009
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 | The End of the Wild
Stephen M. Meyer
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.
Cloth / September 2006
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 | God and the Welfare State
Lew Daly; Foreword by James Carroll
Can religion cure poverty? The first book to explore the ideas about God and government behind the faith-based initiative.
Cloth / October 2006
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 | Inventing American History
William Hogeland
A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
Cloth / April 2009
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 | Making Aid Work
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money.
Cloth / April 2007
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 | The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.
Cloth / September 2008
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 | Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life
Alan A. Stone; Foreword by Joshua Cohen
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
Cloth / September 2007
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 | Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Glenn C. Loury
Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.
Cloth / September 2008
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 | The Road to Democracy in Iran
Akbar Ganji; Foreword by Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
Cloth / April 2008
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 | Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
Elaine Scarry
A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not.
Cloth / April 2010
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 | The Story of Cruel and Unusual
Colin Dayan
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
Cloth / April 2007
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 | Taking Economics Seriously
Dean Baker
A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.
Cloth / April 2010
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 | What We Know About Climate Change
Kerry Emanuel
An introduction to the scientific consensus on the human role in global warming.
Cloth / September 2007
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 | Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters
Hans Blix
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
Cloth / April 2008
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 | Why We Cooperate
Michael Tomasello
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Cloth / October 2009
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