<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for ca:3* nw:180]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for ca:3* nw:180]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/oaklandlibrary/rss/search?query=ca%3A3%2A%20nw%3A180&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=Social%20sciences&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:55:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Time Tax]]></title><description><![CDATA["A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time--and make the government work for us Everyone knows that dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Doing your taxes is bad enough, but for those applying for financial aid, housing assistance, unemployment, disability, or Medicaid, it's worse--and the stakes are infinitely higher. If time is money, the hoops we must jump through to access government services or comply with the law are just one more bill we as citizens are forced to pay. Journalist Annie Lowrey has termed this the "time tax": the paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens to access their rights and benefits. So how did the world's wealthiest country end up with such a convoluted, punitive, and inept system of public administration? Lowrey traces the pathbreaking history of administrative burdens in the United States from the Civil War to today, revealing how they were historically built as a tool of discrimination. She examines the effect of time taxes on civic life in the US, from how they amplify inequality and entrench poverty to how they reduce trust in the government. Lowrey not only diagnoses the problem and gives this miserable experience of interacting with our government a name; she also shows that it doesn't have to be this way. Countries from Estonia to Vietnam have made it a priority to reduce administrative burdens for their citizens, and she argues there's no reason we can't do the same. The Time Tax will enrage you, enlighten you, and, most important, provide a point-by-point guide for reclaiming our precious time"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410464</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410464</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lowrey, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4410464183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How the Government Wastes Our Time--and How to Fix It</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063442559/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Common Good Economy]]></title><description><![CDATA["Whether it's the water crisis, widespread poverty, or the next global pandemic, the problems that threaten humanity require collective action. But policymakers are confronting these problems armed with economic models that are missing one crucial element: They do not treat the common good as an objective worth achieving. In this ambitious and timely book, economist Mariana Mazzucato issues a corrective to prevailing economic thinking by defining a new theory of economics with the common good at its center. She shows how to go beyond fixing markets around the edges and instead reshape them to embody principles of reciprocity rather than extraction, and collectivism rather than individualism. It is not enough, she argues, to talk about "public goods" and the "commons"; we must truly achieve the "common good. "Drawing on wide-ranging philosophical traditions and global examples where seeds of the common good are found, Mazzucato reveals how common-good economics can help systematically transform how we build community and an economy that serves all." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678790</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678790</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mazzucato, Mariana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678790183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Make Capitalism Work for Us All</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541609341/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Final Solution to the Jewish Question]]></title><description><![CDATA[After publishing the "extremely engaging" (The Washington Post) and award-winning essay collection People Love Dead Jews about the insidious nature of contemporary antisemitism, Dara Horn heard from thousands of people, online and in person, demanding solutions. Then, in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel and the subsequent attacks on Jewish communities worldwide, the calls started coming not just from average readers but from university presidents and the United States government. From her front-row seat to this nightmare--including serving on Harvard's Antisemitism Advisory Group, meeting with the White House and Congress, and speaking with communities of all backgrounds across North America--she was surprised to discover that there was far more ignorance than malice, and saw an opportunity for change. Combining deep historical research, investigative reporting, and storytelling bravado, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question is both diagnosis and prescription. She explores and exposes the failures of Holocaust education, the long history of the antizionist movement, the compromises of the American Jewish "Golden Age," and the organized plot to poison artificial intelligence with anti-Jewish propaganda, and weaves it all into an erudite, audacious, and convincing series of arguments that invites readers of every background and inclination to become curious about their blind spots and to absorb new and uncomfortable truths. From there, she proposes a dramatic solution rooted in a new understanding of freedom and responsibility, and clears a path toward a shared future.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4701294</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4701294</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Horn, Dara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4701294183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Love Story for the Living</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668090169/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book of Genocides]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Book of Genocides is a haunting, captivating interactive graphic narrative delving into five centuries of extermination and atrocity. More than a lament, this unique work from award-winning writer and artist Dana Mashoian Walrath dramatizes the mechanisms of dehumanization enabling genocides past and present, insisting that we not look away."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4679267</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4679267</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walrath, Dana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4679267183</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780674299054/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Presidents' Wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen's All the Presidents' Wars examines U.S. counterterrorism and foreign policy after 9/11 through the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Drawing on interviews and intelligence sources, it analyzes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of al-Qaeda and ISIS, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the resurgence of the Taliban, and U.S.-Iran tensions. The book assesses the military and political decisions, strategies, consequences, and costs of the post-9/11 "war on terror," while considering lessons for future U.S. foreign policy.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678758</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678758</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bergen, Peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678758183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Twenty-five Years of America&apos;s War on Terror</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324124061/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coding Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA["Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and Apple. Many educators and parents would object if Exxon wrote their school's climate curriculum--or if schools assigned nutrition lessons from Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Yet today, tech giants influence nearly every step of the education supply chain. They provide the classroom devices and software many students use to do assignments. They sell schools on the latest artificial intelligence tools. And increasingly, tech companies are launching their own corporate-branded school curricula, shaping how and what millions of children learn. In recent years, the tech industry has helped spread computer science and AI education in schools at astonishing speed and scale. In Coding Kids, award-winning New York Times journalist Natasha Singer draws on a decade of reporting to reveal how tech titans used the promise of coding (high-paying jobs! change the world!) to weave rosy industry visions of technology into the very fabric of American education, sometimes sidelining crucial ideas like civics and critical thinking. Along the way, Singer takes readers through the powerful playbook Big Tech used to scale coding lessons nationwide. Then she shows readers how tech companies are now applying the same playbook to mainstream their AI tools in schools. A revelatory account of the powerful forces shaping education and our kids' futures, Coding Kids also offers hope. It tells the compelling stories of pioneering teachers fighting for a broader vision of tech education--one that not only teaches kids algorithms and app-making, but also asks students to grapple with the societal impacts of tech giants and their disruptive digital tools." -- Publisher marketing.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678787</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Singer, Natasha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678787183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Big Tech&apos;s Battle to Remake Public Schools</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393881943/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landbridge]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the Prime Minister shaking Troeung's father's hand and patting baby Y-Dang's head. Troeung became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project. She returns to this moment forty years later in her arresting memoir Landbridge, where she explores the tension between that public narrative of happy "arrival," and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to her family. In precise, beautiful prose, Troeung moves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son's illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Throughout this brilliant and astonishing book, Troeung looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence and dares to imagine a better future, with love." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678342</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678342</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Troeung, Y-Dang]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678342183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Life in Fragments</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478026884/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings]]></title><description><![CDATA["Can one person change the world?  In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings, he studies leaders throughout time to answer the question: do the actions of individuals truly influence history? Or is humanity subject to larger historical, technological, cultural, geographical forces, far beyond the influence of individuals, no matter how powerful they may seem?  On 13 March 1930, a truck sped into an intersection, headed straight for another cars right front door. The passenger of this chauffeur-driven car happened to be Adolf Hitler. If the truck had hit the door, Hitler would have been crushed and killed. But the chauffeur managed to accelerate, and Hitler survived. Would tens of millions of people have died in the Holocaust and World War Two if the chauffeur had been slower to react? Some believe Hitler was unique in his evil abilities, while others think the war was guaranteed by the harsh conditions imposed on Germany post-war. Do leaders like Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Genghis Khan, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Belichick, or Christ really change our world? If yes, what qualities and circumstances are required of a leader to make their mark?  Drawing on his deep study of the life and career of a diverse cast of leaders famous and obscure from Botswana president Seretse Khama, to environmentalist Rachel Carson, to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678913</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678913</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diamond, Jared M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678913183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>(when) Do Leaders Matter?</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063517660/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always Have Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Master your finances in six weeks with a money system designed to reflect your values and ambitions--no matter what your starting point. If you didn't grow up with money or advice on how to manage it, this guide will walk you through key steps to building generational wealth with clarity and confidence. You can master your money in just six weeks, and set in motion a financial life that reflects the personal, family, and cultural values that shape how you define success.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410373</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410373</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Melchor, Maria]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4410373183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Build Wealth When You Don&apos;t Come From Money</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316580465/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyperpolitics]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­lic life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency — while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.  Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the "end of history" and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post–Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private pas­sions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power.  Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq’s disenchanted fictions, Hyperpolitics makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678324</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678324</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jäger, Anton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678324183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781836742074/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decolonizing Money]]></title><description><![CDATA["To change the world, we need a money revolution. Yet the debate over money has been dominated by two perspectives: those free-market capitalists who want money to rule everything, and those who want the state to harness money's power. Decolonizing Money presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital. Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, Julio Linares makes the heretical argument for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a necessary step towards the cancellation of debt and establishing a worldwide basic income. Linares shows that money, beyond a store of value and a medium of exchange, is a series of promises a society makes to itself - and he challenges us to make them otherwise." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4681059</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4681059</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Linares, Julio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4681059183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780745349831/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work Won't Love You Back]]></title><description><![CDATA["Sarah Jaffe examines the 'labor of love' myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries (from the unpaid intern, to the overworked nurse, to the nonprofit worker, and even the professional athlete) Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction." -- Provided by the publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678347</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678347</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaffe, Sarah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678347183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781568589374/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope for Democracy]]></title><description><![CDATA["Concerned citizens across the globe fear that democracy is failing them, but civic reformers are crafting new tools that bring back into politics the wider public and its capacity for reason. This book spotlights one such innovation-the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR). Each review gathers a random sample of twenty voters to study a statewide ballot measure. These citizen panelists interrogate advocates, opponents, and experts and distill what they learn into a one-page analysis for the official Voters' Pamphlet. The Oregon government permanently established the CIR in 2011, and reformers have tested it in locations across the United States and Europe. This book introduces the citizen activists responsible for the development of the CIR, as well as key participants at the inaugural CIR whose experiences changed their lives. Along with these stories, this book provides evidence of the CIR's impact on voters, who not only make better decisions as a result of reading the citizen analysis but also change the way they understand their role in government. The CIR fits into a larger set of deliberative reforms occurring around the world and into a long history of democratic experiments that stretch back through the American revolution to ancient Athens. The book weaves together historical vignettes, contemporary research, and personal narratives to show how citizens, civic reformers, and politicians can work together to revitalize modern democracy."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678414</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678414</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gastil, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678414183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back Into Politics</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780190084523/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pocket]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This first book-length study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives-from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen--and explore their consumption practices, work, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. The authors draw on an unprecedented study of surviving pockets in museums and private collections to identify their materials, techniques, and decoration; their use is investigated through sources as diverse as criminal trials, letters, diaries, inventories, novels, and advertisements. Richly illustrated with paintings, satirical prints, and photographs of artifacts in detail, this innovative book reveals the unexpected story of these deeply evocative and personal objects.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678358</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678358</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burman, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678358183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Hidden History of Women&apos;s Lives, 1660-1900</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300253740/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times]]></title><description><![CDATA["Skye Perryman--Time 100 honoree and CEO of Democracy Forward--offers an urgent, inspiring blueprint for how ordinary people can fight for freedom in extraordinary times. The future of our country lies in all of our hands. From protecting voting rights and public schools to finding courage in the face of fear, Skye Perryman makes the case that defending democracy isn't the job of lawyers or politicians alone--it's a role for every one of us, seasoned and brand-new activists alike. Drawing on her frontline experience challenging threats to democracy in courtrooms across the nation, Perryman combines gripping personal stories with practical 'how-to' guides that empower readers to take action in their own communities. Accessible, hopeful, and deeply practical, this inspiring book shows that the path forward begins not in the halls of power but at our kitchen tables, in our neighborhoods, and through the everyday choices we make to speak up, build community, and protect our future." -- Description provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410497</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410497</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Perryman, Skye]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4410497183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Guide for All of Us : How to Reclaim your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217273997/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seasons of Fury]]></title><description><![CDATA["In this closely reported and elegantly written book, Rozina Ali shows how the War on Terror, conceived in the wake of the September 11 attacks, only accelerated long-standing conflicts between American law enforcement and Muslim communities around the country. From the surveillance of Arab activists that began in the 1960s and laws in the 90s that broadened the definition of terrorism, to the mass detention of entire Muslim communities in the 2000s and the rise of think tanks and nonprofits that sowed panic about the threat of Islam itself, Seasons of Fury shows that the history of policies that have warped the American perception of Muslim communities reaches deep into our past. Through the powerful stories of four families across eight decades, Ali narrates a range of Muslim experiences shaped by relentless suspicion and prejudice. Introducing readers to Abdeen Jabara, Mohammad Ali Chaudry, Shahina and Matin Siraj, and the pseudonymous Omar family, she shows how fears about American Muslims have always been inextricable from the Israel Palestine conflict, stoking the idea of a religious war between Muslims and the West. Ultimately, the U.S. government's Islamophobic policies disillusioned generations of Muslims who sought the promise of the American dream only to find their communities torn apart, their relatives imprisoned, and their religion villainized by politicians and media. Ali's story of how we got to our terrifying present is a magisterial accomplishment and a damning indictment of the United States abandonment of its core principles in the face of fear." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410493</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410493</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ali, Rozina]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4410493183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593239544/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]></title><description><![CDATA["Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The book is one of those rare works of scholarship which no informed citizen can afford to ignore." -- Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678428</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678428</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weber, Max]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678428183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780415254069/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness]]></title><description><![CDATA["What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for non-human nature, and increase wellbeing? This book explores ways the reader can live their life, engage with cultural change, and engage with policy making, to build that world. We are presently on a path to environmental destruction, as our societies are driven by forces which leave many people without what they need to meet their basic needs, while also wasting vast resources on an unsatisfying consumer economy. The current system does not lead to a sense of wellbeing, even among those who are relatively materially comfortable. This book focuses on solutions for building a world of enough. It explains how we can reorient our thinking and take the steps necessary to transform our social systems. It looks at ways to reduce the insatiable desire for status and consumption that drive our economies. It focuses on emerging approaches to economics that take wellbeing as their goal, and explores the policies that are crucial for getting there, such as reducing inequality, investing in public goods, and reducing work time. The book arms the reader with a variety of tools for building a world where everyone has enough for a good life." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678429</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678429</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kaufman, Cynthia C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678429183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Build A World Where Everyone Has Enough</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781032408224/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the Lab, Into the Streets]]></title><description><![CDATA["Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in American higher education and set a new standard of militancy in one of the fastest-growing sectors of the labor movement. In doing so, these workers also taught organizers everywhere lessons about the effectiveness of collective power cemented through worker-to-worker organizing, militant escalation strategies, and cross-union solidarity. On November 14, 2022, academic workers of the University of California began a strike that brought workers out of the lab and into the streets to fight for more equitable working conditions. The strike was a hard-fought achievement and a learning practice for workers across campuses, disciplines, job classifications, political affiliations, and identities. This book documents the on-the-ground making of union organizing and power building." -- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4679043</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4679043</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4679043183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798887441573/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation of the Revenue Sharing Project of Lincoln Child Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[[Eighth month] evaluation of the Day Treatment Program Alameda County, conducted by Bay Area Social Planning Council during the period May 8-13, 1975. -- Adapted from Introduction.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4703660</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4703660</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4703660183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Log No. 5101</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightingales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wilson’s pensive but ultimately hopeful debut follows a Portland, Ore., teen navigating her final year of high school against the backdrop of mid-1980s AIDS panic. Lou, an All-State hurdler benched by injury, shifts to drama club (and kissing a jock named Jerry backstage). Then her father adds to the drama: his colleague, Jim, has been having “a hard time” and is moving in—along with his pair of Pomeranians. Lou’s mother, Annemarie, simmers, but Lou takes to Jim almost immediately. Their frank porch-side conversations on music and queer life in New York City draw out “confident” parts of her: “This man—gay and foulmouthed—is the first person to talk to her like she’s an adult.” Lou’s parents are quick to attribute Jim’s weight loss, fatigue, and Kaposi sarcoma spots to cancer. The portrait of domestic tension is unsparing: tight-lipped resentments take hold, and Annemarie—rattled by misconceptions about AIDS—keeps a wary eye on her daughter’s easy rapport with Jim. Wilson renders it all in loose colored pencil sketches, with dialogue typed on slips of paper and taped to the page—a scrapbook approach attuned to the fragmentary nature of memory. Intimate and soft-spoken, this family album finds a hard-won note of grace in America’s fraught early reckoning with AIDS.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678720</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678720</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson, Emil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678720183</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle>Emil Wilson</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668217771/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Shield]]></title><description><![CDATA["An exploration of race and policing through the complex stories of Black police officers: the braided narratives of Cooper's family, three generations of cops in Cleveland, and of Black Shield, an organization for Black police officers in Cleveland"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410342</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4410342</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper, Wilbert L.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4410342183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An American Memoir of Family and Power</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374613525/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation of Companions of Alameda County, Inc]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seven month evaluation of Companions of Alameda County, Inc., a friendship program for children of single-parent, low-income families in Alameda County, conducted by Bay Area Social Planning Council during the period April 1 through April 10, 1975. -- Adapted from Introduction.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4702489</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4702489</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4702489183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Log No. 5022</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[1873]]></title><description><![CDATA["Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in borrowing through the global bond market, which provided financing for the century's most costly and transformative innovation: the railroad. At the hub of the bond market stood one family-the Rothschilds. With offices in London, Paris, Vienna, and Frankfurt, and through their agent August Belmont in New York, the Rothschilds were arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in world history, possessing an unmatched ability to mobilize capital on a massive scale and wielding unparalleled political influence. The boom predictably swelled into a series of bubbles that burst simultaneously in the early 1870s, cascading from one country to the next across Europe and the world. Governments of the major economic powers responded by blundering amid the tumult into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system-a move that not only exacerbated the ensuing economic collapse but set the stage for a prolonged twenty-year period of punitive deflation. This deflation sparked waves of populism and anti-globalization sentiment. As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire's slow death spiral and Britain's takeover of Egypt. Ironically, as markets grew irrationally frenzied, the Rothschilds had presciently managed to protect themselves from the worst financial effects. Nevertheless, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated everywhere as part of a wider spasm of hatred directed at "Jewish finance," a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower in Austria and Germany during the 20th century."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678753</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4678753</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahamed, Liaquat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4678753183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594204173/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cross-cultural Medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is the boundary between cultural beliefs and Western medicine? This is the essential question that the Public Health Academy juniors converged upon after experiencing multiple perspectives on medical treatment and investigating what could go wrong when doctors and patients left the boundary unexamined. Can we use our understanding of a patient's belief system to teach them ours? Can we suspend our beliefs about one truth to consider multiple truths? The health narratives on the following pages are a culmination of the students' inquiry into cross-cultural medicine and the authors hope that they will push the reader right up to the chalky line between beliefs and that the line will become slightly more smudged as a result. -- Adapted from the introduction to volume 1.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4702477</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4702477</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4702477183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Volume 7 : A Collection of Health Narratives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>