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“Tragic, infuriating, impeccably researched…. [A] remarkable story, brilliantly told.” — John Grisham A shocking story of fire science gone wrong and mob mentality run amok, when Victor Rosario, an immigrant in Lowell, Massachusetts, is wrongfully convicted following a deadly blaze and...

From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller It Begins with You comes a transformative roadmap to rewriting your story and healing the most important relationship you will ever have: the one you have with yourself. “After more than two decades of helping people heal—and healing...

Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? This is not an accident, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has...

An in-depth, nonpartisan analysis of gentrification as an opportunity to make change work for everyone from a veteran architect and urban planner. Constant transformation is a given in urban life. However, re-vitalization and growth projects can often be sources of loss and displacement for many...

What happens in the brain on the brink of death? One person’s last words might be lucid, revealing deep-seated thoughts and emotions. Another person might be brought to intensive care and never awaken. Electroencephalograms of dying patients record surprising activity in portions of the brain...

A laser-sharp examination of how elite universities, in their neglect of sociological reasoning, failed our society's biggest test: that of an airborne pandemic. Hobbled by conservative cuts to education beginning in the Reagan era, universities became increasingly consumer-focused, giving rise...

The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future? Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary...

For readers of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Why Nations Fail, a bold, revelatory history of confiscation, or the government seizure of private property, stretching from medieval Europe to World War II and illuminating its role in the biggest atrocities—and most revolutionary social...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including primates. The fist has played a crucial role in the birth of language and appears in nearly every...

In the US, approximately forty percent of children are born to single mothers. In the African American community, that number jumps to seventy percent. But even when a father is physically present in a household, that doesn't mean he is engaged with his children or leading his family. In our...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic explores how modern cities thrive when urban planning leaves room for happy accidents and innovations. “A city is not a symphony, composed as a single work,” Paul Goldberger writes. “It is more like jazz, with its mix of order and...

A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth – and the lack of it – shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi. Anna has a comfortable life in a beautiful house thanks to her husband – until he suddenly asks...

Taking into account their history, this book explores the Black gangs of London. It addresses the important but often overlooked questions, on how, why and when they emerged - all while touching on cultural and societal influences on Black Gangs. From the Windrush generation to the ongoing...

Death comes too soon for some and too late for others, but in the end it does come for us all. Yet we spend much of our lives ignoring it, fearing it, or attempting to postpone it. But if death is inescapable, how should Christians prepare? Centuries ago, medieval Christians developed a guide to...

A visually striking exploration of money—and the lack of it—in America told through the lives of ten individuals, from a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist “Astonishing . . . Chalabi’s taboo-busting transparency about peoples’ financial lives is revolutionary enough...

A New York Times bestselling historian confronts the myth of American meritocracy and our enduring reverence for the uber-rich—and how that feedback loop corrodes democracy Americans are taught to see aristocracy as everything we are not. Yet from the Revolution forward, the nation has...

A sweeping history of the British village, both rural and urban, which makes a compelling case for why we need to protect our local communities, from bestselling author Simon Jenkins We are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit...

Gandhi for a new century: his major legacies and why they still matter, from his foremost biographer. Any shortlist of the most impactful political leaders of the twentieth century must include Gandhi, and once we eliminate the tyrants—Mao, Stalin, and Hitler—Gandhi stands virtually alone...

An adoptive parent and historian delves into the differences of families made by law, not biology-- and shows us the deep value of those differences Adoption touches on some of our most vexing social questions, about race and sexuality, abortion rights, economic inequality, even foreign policy...

This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree. For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film...