Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which T…
Shelve Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclaimed, “The American Dream is dead,” a message that resonated across the country. Washington Examiner edito…
Shelve Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American…
Shelve The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Consider Facebook—it’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connec…
Shelve Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won't be truly complete…
Shelve This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class
Life expectancy in the United States has rece…
Shelve Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and…
Shelve How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones a…
Shelve The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society …
Shelve The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called 'managerialism' - rule by managers.
Written in 1941, this is the book …
Shelve The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of a…
Shelve How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degrada…
Shelve Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and…
Shelve Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to driv…
Shelve The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--and why it might be necessary for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling techno…
Shelve Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and incl…
Shelve The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart…
Shelve Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Huma…
Shelve Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillful…
Shelve The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem , Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a depart…
Shelve Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra …
Shelve Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world--from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts
As…
Shelve Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people eme…
Shelve Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
