The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics
10 best books like The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics (Ryan D. Enos): Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone), Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, Pot Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States, Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier, Worthless: The Indispensible Guide to Choosing the Right Major, Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans sat riveted in front of their televisions as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become a symbol of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive....
| Author | James Attlee |
| ISBN | 0241144329 |
One of our favourite travel books of the past decade was James Attlee's debut, Isolarion, a journey around the author's own Oxford neighbourhood, published to acclaim by the University of Chicago Press. In this follow-up, Nocturne, the author starts again outside his own front door, but this time...
Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact Early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much...
| Author | Greg Campbell |
| ISBN | 1402779259 |
Greg Campbell, coauthor of the best-selling Flawless and Blood Diamonds, presents a compelling, close-up investigation of a hot-button topic: America's schizophrenic attitude to the legalization of pot. Campbell, a suburban father whose biggest vice is a cold beer, seems like the last person...
Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
| ISBN | 0199832706 |
Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these...
Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
| Author | Emily Brady |
| ISBN | 1455506761 |
In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.
Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might...
Worthless: The Indispensible Guide to Choosing the Right Major
| Author | Aaron Clarey |
| ISBN | 1467978302 |
"Worthless" is the single most important book young men and women can read before they attend college. While teachers, guidance counselors and even parents are afraid to tell you the truth in an effort to spare your feelings, "Worthless" delivers a blunt and real-world assessment about the economic...
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
| Author | John Sides |
| ISBN | 0691174199 |
A gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump's historic victory
Donald Trump's election victory stunned the world. How did he pull it off? Was it his appeal to alienated voters in the battleground states? Was it Hillary Clinton and the scandals...
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization...
The Kennedy Years: From the Pages of The New York Times
| Author | Richard Reeves |
| ISBN | 1419708554 |
The year 2013 is the 50th anniversary year of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who still ranks as one of the top five presidents in every major annual survey. To commemorate the man and his time in office, the New York Times has authorized a book, edited by Richard Reeves, based on its unsurpassed...
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
| Author | James T. Kloppenberg |
| ISBN | 0691147469 |
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to...
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
| Author | Fred Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0470121181 |
America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled...
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
| Author | Michael J. Gerhardt |
| ISBN | 1299457886 |
Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak...
UnSelling: The New Customer Experience
| Author | Scott Stratten |
| ISBN | 1118943007 |
UnSelling is about everything but the sell. We put all of our focus on the individual purchase transaction, while putting the rest of our business actions second. We've become blind to customer service, support, branding, experiences and even product quality. Sixty percent of a purchasing decision...
Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives
| Author | Robert Draper |
| ISBN | 1451642083 |
The U.S. House of Representatives—a large, often unruly body of men and women elected every other year from 435 distinct microcosms of America—has achieved renown as “the people’s House,” the world’s most democratic institution, and an acute Rorschach of biennial public passions....
| Author | Spiro Kostof |
| ISBN | 0821225995 |
The City Assembled continues Kostof's unique study of urban landscape and process that began in The City Shaped. Moving from the historical and cultural overviews of the city, Kostof descends into the streets, sidewalks, squares, markets, and waterfronts and presents a detailed urban anatomy....
Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
| Author | Marc J. Hetherington |
Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time, a scholarly controversy has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are and that the reason is growing polarization of worldviews - what guides people's view of right and wrong and good and...
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
| Author | Richard Sennett |
| ISBN | 0393308782 |
Richard Sennett sosyal bilimler dünyasının en çok bilinen düşünürlerinden biridir. Kitaplarını okurken fark edersiniz ki birden, onun anlattığı her şeye her söylemine katılmasanız bile hatta yanlış ya da eksik bulduğunuz fikirleri olsa bile okumadan edemezsiniz. Akademik...
| Author | Donald B. Kraybill |
| ISBN | 1421409143 |
The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate...
Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
| Author | James E. Ryan |
| ISBN | 0195327381 |
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?
In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes...
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space
| Author | John R. Bowen |
| ISBN | 0691125066 |
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social...
The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
| Author | Edward C. Banfield |
| ISBN | 0029015103 |
At first I wasn't sure about reading a book describing the problems challenging the democratic process of small towns in Southern Italy in the 1950s. But the more I delved in this book, the more similarities I could observe with the problems challenging the democratic process of my country: Malta. The...
