Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
By: Katherine Beckett
3.82
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" …
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1. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
By: Loïc Wacquant
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
2. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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- history
- sociology
4. Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
By: None
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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- history
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7. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
By: Forrest Stuart
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by po… read more
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8. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
By: Naomi Murakawa
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and … read more
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9. Rules of Civility
By: Amor Towles
2.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village… read more
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10. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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11. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- history
- sociology
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
13. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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14. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
15. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
16. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
17. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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- nonfiction
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
18. Carceral Capitalism
By: Jackie Wang
4.61
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more
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"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
19. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- history
- sociology
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
20. Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
By: Patrick Sharkey
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Over the past two decades, American cities have experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, d… read more
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- history
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21. Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
By: Matthew Clair
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court--and denies justice to… read more
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22. Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
By: Katherine Beckett
3.82
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" … read more
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