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Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds

Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios

“If you want to understand how to analyze and avert potential catastrophes of the modern world, from pandemics to climate change, you should start with this brilliant book. Ranging widely and deeply over law, economics, and philosophy, Sunstein explains through examples and principles how societies can deal with the deep uncertainties we face.”—William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate in Economics

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The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

Bernadette Barton offers an up-close look at how porn permeates our culture.

“Zippy and well illustrated, this book persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.'”—New York Times Book Review

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Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Explore a vivid memoir of life in one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods.

“Florio charms in her debut memoir about a life well-lived on Greenwich Village’s Bank Street. This sentimental memoir will uplift any reader, no matter where they may call home.”—Publishers Weekly

Take a stroll through Greenwich Village

The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

Ian Rosenberg offers a user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States.

“A deep dive into 10 precedent-setting legal actions that helped define the scope—and limits—of the First Amendment … Essential reading for journalists, political activists, and ordinary citizens alike.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred

Learn your rights

Avidly Reads Passages

In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what prevents so many Black Americans from moving or being moved.

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