New Books: January 2023
Business/Commerce
Poverty and Power
Most Americans persist in believing that poverty results primarily from individual deficiencies: people are poor because they lack intelligence, determination, and skills. In opposition to […]
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Humans at Work
Shift your organization’s mindset, culture and processes in order to create a human-centric workplace enabled by new technology and organizational design.
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Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
Reinvent your organization for the hybrid age. Hybrid work is here to stay—but what will it look like at your company? If your organization is […]
Read MoreCorrections/Criminal Justice
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers In this powerful call to action, author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. […]
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The Plea of Innocence
Providing the first fundamental reform of its kind for the adversarial legal system, The Plea of Innocence introduces a new method through which to free […]
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Trigger Points
Beginning with the pioneering study in the late 1970s of “criminally insane” assassins and the stalking behaviors discovered after the murder of John Lennon and […]
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Education
The Gender Equation in Schools
This book takes you inside a teacher’s journey to explore the question of gender in education. Jason Ablin uses his background in math teaching, school […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality
Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have to have it—is false. It’s […]
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A Kaleidoscope of Identities
This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and extensive rather than […]
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The Facilitator’s Guide for White Affinity Groups
While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed […]
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When They Tell You To Be Good
After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur’s family is rocked by the murder of Prince’s biological father in 1995. Behind the murder […]
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The Religion of American Greatness
What is Christian nationalism, and how is it different from patriotism? Political theorist, veteran, and former White House staffer Paul D. Miller provides a detailed […]
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Who’s Raising the Kids?
n Who’s Raising the Kids? Linn—one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children—explores the roots and […]
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Virtual Ei (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Virtual EI explores how to develop, practice, and demonstrate your emotional intelligence and social skills in a virtual or hybrid setting. You’ll learn how to […]
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The Fight for Privacy
The essential road map for understanding—and defending—your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, […]
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Behind Their Screens
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
HBR Guide to Better Mental Health at Work (HBR Guide Series)
Build a mentally healthy workplace. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Yet being honest about depression, anxiety, and other psychological conditions at […]
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Breastfeeding Doesn’t Need to Suck
This book helps new mothers reach their breastfeeding goals and feed their babies with confidence. The scientific literature tells us that when breastfeeding is going […]
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Move More At Your Desk
A practical guide to show you small, simple, varied and doable ways to move more so that your body is less stiff, stronger, more energized […]
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Compassion’s COMPASS
Offers a systematic approach to developing compassionate insight that has been adapted from Tibetan mind training strategies, secularized for modern audiences, and supplemented with relevant […]
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What’s Your Grief?
Losses, big and small, turn your world upside down. What’s Your Grief? will help you through all of them. Many life changes need to be […]
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Drugs and the FDA
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug […]
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Breathless
The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
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History
Modern Conspiracies in America
America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear […]
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Half American
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, […]
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Formidable
The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to […]
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Life on the Mississippi
A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
Redistricting
This authoritative overview of election redistricting at the congressional, state legislative, and local level provides offers an overview of redistricting for students and practitioners. The […]
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American Crusade
Is a fight against equality and for privilege a fight for religious supremacy? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate on religious liberty, the modern […]
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Can Legal Weed Win?
Cannabis “legalization” hasn’t lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On […]
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The Big Lie
In the more than five tumultuous, paradigm-shifting years of Donald Trump’s presidency and beyond, his near-constant lying has become a fixture of political life. It […]
Read MoreLibraries/Archives
Banned Books
Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published. Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the […]
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Information Issues for Older Americans
Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.
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Liaison Engagement Success
This book prepares academic liaison librarians for successful engagement whether they are new to the profession, new to liaison librarianship, or part of a transitioning […]
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Interim Leadership in Libraries:
It’s common for libraries to use visiting, interim, temporary, and acting roles to solve a variety of personnel vacancies. And with the current, widespread retirements […]
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Virtual Technical Services
No matter what the future brings for academic libraries, technical services librarians need to be ready to face the unexpected. Virtual Technical Services guides librarians […]
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The Ultimate Privacy Field Guide
Designed for use in school, public, and academic settings of all shapes and sizes, this easy-to-use workbook is packed with practical, hands-on exercises to guide […]
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
Decision Leadership
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures […]
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Leading Systems Change in Public Health
Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Field Guide for Practitioners is the first resource written by public health professionals for public health professionals on […]
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Leadership Hacks
This is a book for leaders looking for the life, work, and business hacks that will help you manage and inspire others. Whether you’re feeling […]
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Cultivating Culture
In Cultivating Culture, author, speaker, and leadership coach Brad Federman provides actionable tools for immediately promoting better teamwork, creating two-way conversations with your people, and […]
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