New Books: February 2022
Business/Commerce
Out of Office
A future-looking, game-changing book about the radical transformational potential of working from home.
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Corrections/Criminal Justice
The Crisis in America’s Criminal Courts
This book highlights the variety of problems that judges, prosecutors, and public defenders face within a criminal justice system that is ineffective, unfair, and extraordinarily […]
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Stratified Policing
Stratified Policing seeks to facilitate organizational change for crime reduction by providing a clear and adaptable structure for analysis, problem solving, and accountability. This book […]
Read MoreDisabilities
Turn on the Words!
The evolution of Captioned Films for the Deaf (CFD) program is a primary focus of the book. Topics such as movie theater captioning and closed […]
Read MoreEducation
School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy
Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K-12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. […]
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Teaching Black History to White People
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college […]
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Mastering the Art of Teaching
Mastering the Art of Teaching not only identifies and explains what teachers do but also makes suggestions for new and practicing teachers may further hone […]
Read MoreEnvironment/Agriculture/Natural Resources
An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism
Tourism is an astonishingly complex phenomenon that is becoming an ever-greater part of life in today’s global world. This clear and engaging text introduces students […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Jane Elliott, a third-grade school teacher in rural Iowa, tried out a shocking experiment to show the […]
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Raising LGBTQ Allies
Raising LGBTQ Allies is the first book to focus on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. It encourages families to have […]
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Bias Interrupted
A cutting edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts […]
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A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Field Guide to White Supremacy illuminates the long and complex career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and […]
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Forged in War
The tools of our information age-from search engines to data mining to smart appliances-grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present […]
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Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics
Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics is a powerful introduction to the topic of the anti-Muslim landscape in the U.S. In it, Kazi shows that Islamophobia […]
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Manipulated
Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
The Power of Fun
We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a […]
Read MoreHistory
The Dawn of Everything
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of “the […]
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The 1619 Project
A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past […]
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Career and Family
In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between […]
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The Power of Scenery
The Power of Scenery tells the story of how the world’s national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted’s insights and energy serving to […]
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Deplorable
Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty–very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
The People’s Constitution
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution–the product of compromises and an artifact of its time–and made it more […]
Read MoreLibraries/Archives
Library Services and Incarceration
This book provides librarians and those studying to enter the profession with tools to grapple with their own implication within systems of policing and incarceration, […]
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The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries
“This handbook provides an array of resources to enable library staff to serve their communities in disaster planning, response, and recovery”–
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The Six-Step Guide to Library Worker Engagement
Offering proven strategies alongside recommended action points in each chapter, this resource guides managers and administrators through developing and maintaining a more engaged and diverse […]
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
Gentelligence
Gentelligence is a book about harnessing the untapped potential from the diversity of thought in a multigenerational workforce. It presents a transformative way to end […]
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