New Books in Public Policy
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William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
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Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A...
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
47 min
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Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student L...
American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....
27 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
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Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Sch...
If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..
23 min
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The...
Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...
58 min
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
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Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitio...
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...
53 min
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Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution...
Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..
55 min
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Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
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William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander...
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
42 min
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Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
42 min
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Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
42 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min
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Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
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Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race a...
Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...
20 min
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Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
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Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should...
What is the future of work?
29 min
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
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Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, "Citizenshi...
"Citizenship" takes the reader through our own approaches to this concept and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood...
41 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min