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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
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Mitchell Jackson
Alan Scott
, November 09, 2021
I recommend this moving and engaging read. Mitchell S. Jackson explores racism, gentrification, substance abuse, masculinity and fatherhood through the lens of his life experiences growing up in Portland, Oregon. The author slips seamlessly from raw, personal introspection in the vernacular of the streets he grew up on, to astute historic and cultural investigations in the lexicon of the literary and academic world he now inhabits. He tells a universal story of the will to survive and the unique means and methods we each embrace to achieve this within the culture and context we inhabit. I will not adopt a privileged conceit that the book allowed me to walk a mile in the author’s shoes, but perhaps it let me slip them on, feel the places where they pinch, and imagine the blisters and calluses he experiences as he walks through life.
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Open The Progressive Case for Free Trade Immigration & Global Capital
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Kimberly Clausing
Alan Scott
, May 10, 2019
Required reading for anyone running for office, and more importantly, anyone who plans to vote! The brilliant economist Kimberly Clausing takes on the propensity of the right and the left to propose overly simple solutions to our difficult problems, often by scapegoating others, namely immigrants, free trade, globalization and large corporations. This book cuts through the bluster of sound bites and looks objectively at the benefits and challenges of open borders. She makes a clear, compelling and evidence-based case for a common sense approach to updating our economic policies to fit our modern world, increasing peace and prosperity for all.
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