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A staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy. From the Rockefellers to the Vanderbilts, the world’s richest families have for centuries built their fortunes on American soil, serving...

Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working-class residents in London neighborhoods by the professional classes. The Death and Life of Gentrification traces how the word has far outgrown Glass's meaning, becoming a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and the loss of authenticity.

aBundance: The Wealth of Networks reveals how better incentives can reshape our democracies, our money, and progress itself. Humanity’s greatest advances have been marred by unsustainable debt and extreme wealth disparity—problems solvable when openness, accountability, and sustainability form the backbone of our systems. This is essential listening for anyone who senses something is deeply wrong—and is ready to act.

Education is broken, but it doesn’t have to be. In Skoolz R Dumb, Alida Davis Abdullah a no-nonsense and season educator and parent, cuts through the jargon and exposes the deep flaws and truths about today’s educational system. From endless testing to rigid curriculums, she’s seen firsthand how these outdated systems crush creativity and drown out the dreams of students, educators, and parents. However, this book isn’t just about pointing fingers with critiques.

Fact Forward: The Perils of Bad Information and the Promise of a Data-Savvy Society explores how a growing deluge of data has led to a data-rich world with abundant new opportunities and a precipitous decline in trust due to the problems we face in producing, communicating, and consuming data.

Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world's leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three objectives.

Wir müssen handeln – und wir können es auch! Zarah Bruhn wagt den mutigen Blick nach vorn und zeigt aus ihrer Erfahrung heraus konkrete Wege in die Welt von morgen auf. Sie macht sichtbar, wie viele Menschen bereits heute an der Lösung unserer gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Herausforderungen arbeiten, und berichtet von ihren Begegnungen: vom Friedensnobelpreisträger bis zur CEO eines Dax-Unternehmens, von der genialen Superhackerin bis zu visionären Sozialarbeitern aus aller Welt. Sie haben Antworten. Sie sind innovativ. Sie sparen dem Staatshaushalt Milliarden.

Wir wohnen in unseren Gefühlen wie in Häusern. Diese inneren Landschaften prägen unsere Entscheidungen und sind das Ergebnis zahlreicher Einflüsse von der Geburt bis zum Erwachsenwerden. Wenn gewohnte Sicherheiten bröckeln, eine als gegeben vorausgesetzte Welt verschwindet, verunsichert das die Menschen zutiefst, ohne dass sie recht wissen, warum. Das nutzen Antidemokraten aus und schüren Angst, denn Demokratie setzt Vertrauen, Sicherheit und Zuversicht voraus.

Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives. But the companies making it - oil and petrochemical giants like ExxonMobil and INEOS - are hiding in plain sight. Because for all the vivid coverage of where plastic ends up, there is remarkably little discussion of where it comes from. In a shocking investigative deep dive, packed with character-driven storytelling, award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner exposes the truth of the vast, rapacious industry flooding our world with plastic - and now preparing to make more than ever.

The Katrina List: An Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina offers an intimate and powerful account of one of America’s most devastating disasters. Going beyond headlines and statistics, it captures the raw human experiences of those who endured the storm—stories of survival, separation, and resilience. Through overlooked personal narratives, it exposes the emotional toll of loss and the failures of government response. This audiobook also highlights the importance of remembrance, showcasing the Katrina National Memorial Museum’s role in preserving these voices for future generations.

In Teach like an Ally, veteran classroom teacher and celebrated transgender advocate Flint Del Sol weaves humor, storytelling, and expertise into a guide for educator-allies. Del Sol offers actionable strategies that you can implement in classrooms. He also tackles the complex questions teachers face: What should you do when a student asks for one name in the classroom, but another at home?

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment.

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In Greenwashed: The New Religion of Climate Guilt, the gloves come off. With biting wit, deep research, and a healthy dose of skepticism, this book dives into the modern environmental movement—unpacking its dogmas, hypocrisies, and unintended consequences. From carbon credits traded like poker chips on Wall Street, to plant-based meats wrapped in plastic and shipped thousands of miles, Greenwashed exposes how marketing, fear, and virtue-signaling have overtaken real solutions.

When Daniel arrives at Casey and Mike's door he is an out-of-control teenager, whose history of abandonment and abuse has left him angry at the world. But no matter how big the challenge, Casey is determined to break the cycle and prove to Daniel that not all adults will let him down.

Eco Revolution is a humanized and eye-opening journey through the past, present, and future of one of the most crucial topics of our time: Climate change. This book chronicles untold sustainability history, highlights the stories of unsung eco-warrior heroes, and shares solutions for a more sustainable and equitable world, as told through the lens of award-winning environmental activist Maya Penn’s unique and inspiring experience as a young black woman and member of Generation Z.

Performative Outrage delivers a piercing examination of how manufactured fury is eroding the foundations of democracy. Drawing from experience in public administration and backed by profound insights, Brooks Williams reveals how local government, the most direct and impactful form of governance—is being paralyzed by social media theatrics, fear-driven decision-making, and the relentless churn of outrage cycles. With searing clarity, he deconstructs the anatomy of performative anger, exposes its enablers, and traces its devastating consequences for trust, leadership, and community cohesion.

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The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs.

Jay Ruderman, an accomplished activist, has been doing just that for more than three decades—working to change popular opinion and influence public policy on the issues that move him. In this inspiring call to action, Ruderman offers hard-earned wisdom, sure-fire strategies, and actionable lessons for how to create controversy, speak up, and grab attention for the causes closest to your heart.