To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...

At trial, some jurors turned to a Ouija board for guidance...

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure economic philosophy has been gaining a growing following on the left...

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Glass evaluates the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....

Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....

Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...

Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...

Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...

Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..

Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex...

"Welfare for the Rich" is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run...

Wakin offers an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered homelessness....

Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?

Loughnan questions assumptions about the rise and prominence of criminal responsibility from the late colonial period until recent times...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...