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Titles by Discipline - Social Science
Click Here to Print This ListFusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people. America has woken up to what many of its citizens have… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316257978
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: March 28th 2023
Little, Brown and Company
A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a 'fascinating, well-researched' (Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE) journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual—showing how and why our most irrational behaviors are a key driver of our success." Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316462402
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: September 13th 2022
Little, Brown and Company
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismFrom a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world.… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316703321
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: September 6th 2022
Little, Brown and Company
**Shortlisted for the 2021 Stephan Russo Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice** This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom includes a bold new strategy to safeguard our rights, from two lawyers at the forefront of the movement. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306925634
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: July 13th 2021
Hachette Books
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316451482
USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99
On Sale: May 3rd 2022
Little, Brown and Company
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten.… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781645036661
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: May 10th 2022
PublicAffairs
Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a more human future In The Future Is Analog, David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instantly gave us the digital universe we’d spent so long anticipating. Instant communication, online shopping, virtual… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541701557
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: November 15th 2022
PublicAffairs
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781568589374
USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99
On Sale: January 18th 2022
PublicAffairs
How to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this "utterly fascinating" (Adam Grant) big-idea book.Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316457330
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: January 19th 2021
Little, Brown and Company
An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781645036890
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: October 5th 2021
PublicAffairs