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Quality of Life
Quality of life [has subtopics]
Happiness [has subtopics]
Happiness--Economic aspects
Wealth [has subtopics]
Consumption (economics) [has subtopics]
United States--Social conditions [has tons of subtopics]
Well-being--Social aspects
Health behavior
Success [has subtopics]
Successful people
Revolutionary Ideas & Innovations
Creative ability [has subtopics & further entries]
Technological innovations [has lots of subtopics]
Medical innovations [has subtopics]
Diffusion of Innovations
Inventions [has subtopics]
Inventors [has subtopics]
Technology [has tons of subtopics]
Technology--Social aspects [has subtopics]
Technology and civilization
Internet--Social aspects
Social media [has subtopics]
Artificial intelligence [has subtopics]
Electronic commerce [has subtopics]
Sustainability & Justice
Equality [has subtopics]
Educational equalization [has subtopics]
Equality before the law--United States
Pay equity [has subtopics]
Discrimination in [...tons of endings to this statement]
Discrimination in employment [has subtopics]
Discrimination in capital punishment
Affirmative action programs [has subtopics]
Distributive justice
Income distribution [has subtopics]
Wealth [has subtopics & further entries]
Sustainable agriculture--United States
Renewable energy sources
eBooks
These books are found in our eBook collection, so they are available online and not in print on our shelves. Clicking on the book title will take you to a page where you can click on the link under the "View Online" section, which takes you to another page where you need to click on the PDF in the left margin to read the full book.
Happiness Around the World: the Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires by ISBN: 9780191572937Publication Date: 2009
Icons of Invention: The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg to Gates by ISBN: 9780313347443Publication Date: 2009
Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act, and Change Our World by ISBN: 9780749469665Publication Date: 2013-10-28
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It by ISBN: 1400837340Publication Date: 2011-05-27Also available in print!
Making the Good Life Last: Four Keys to Sustainable Living by ISBN: 9781576755884Publication Date: 2009-05-08
Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy by ISBN: 9781610917797Publication Date: 2016-06-02
Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness by ISBN: 9780742565081Publication Date: 2010-01-16
Books on Quality of Life
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Call Number: BF637.S8 D693 2018ISBN: 9781501111105Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Outliers: The Story of Success by Call Number: BF637.S8 G533 2008ISBN: 9780316017923Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Call Number: BF637.S8 K3787 2018ISBN: 9780226550152Publication Date: 2019-05-21
The American Way of Life by Call Number: E169.12 .S236 2017ISBN: 9781683930822Publication Date: 2017-05-25
Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report by Call Number: E184.A1 H4155 2018ISBN: 9781439916025Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Call Number: E185.86 .R55 2015ISBN: 9781594037252Publication Date: 2014-06-17
Good Economics for Hard Times by Call Number: HB171 .B243 2019ISBN: 9781610399500Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods and How Companies Create Them by Call Number: HB841 .S55 2005ISBN: 9781591840800Publication Date: 2004-12-29
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer by Call Number: HC79.D45 M87 2015ISBN: 9781137278982Publication Date: 2015-08-11
Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Call Number: HC79.I5 A822 2015ISBN: 9780674504769Publication Date: 2015-05-11
The Persistence of Poverty in the United States by Call Number: HC110 .P6 M29 2003ISBN: 9780801871306Publication Date: 2003-05-20
The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate by Call Number: HC110.I5 G688 2022ISBN: 9781538167380Publication Date: 2022-09-15
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Call Number: HD4903.5.U58 M33 2006ISBN: 9780674019096Publication Date: 2006-01-30
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections Across Identities, Genders, & Cultures by Call Number: HD4904.25 .C628 2017ISBN: 9781498534154Publication Date: 2016-12-27
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America by Call Number: HD5124 .T35 2003ISBN: 9781576752456Publication Date: 2003-08-31
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems by Call Number: HD7293 .S34 2022ISBN: 9780815739289Publication Date: 2022-02-22
The Psychology of Inequity by Call Number: HM821 .P744 2022ISBN: 9781440879012Publication Date: 2022-09-27
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Call Number: HM891 .E27 2003ISBN: 0679463038Publication Date: 2003-11-25
Happiness in America: A Cultural History by Call Number: HN57 .S245 2018ISBN: 9781538115794Publication Date: 2018-11-08
Affluenza: The All-consuming Epidemic by Call Number: HN60 .D396 2002ISBN: 1576751996Publication Date: 2002-08-12
Income Inequality by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HC110.I5 I477 2016ISBN: 9780737775242Publication Date: 2015-12-22
Poverty in America by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HC110.P6 P5966 2015ISBN: 9780737771831Publication Date: 2015-04-27
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era by Call Number: HT175 .G55 2022ISBN: 9780812253719Publication Date: 2022-06-07
Struggling in the Land of Plenty: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families by Call Number: HV4488 .R63 2019ISBN: 9781793600769Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven't, How We Can by Call Number: HV4493 .E535 2016ISBN: 9781626375079Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Call Number: HV6548.U6 C37 2020ISBN: 9780691190785Publication Date: 2020-03-17Also available in Delano.
The History of College Affordability in the United States from Colonial Times to the Cold War by Call Number: LB2342 .A566 2020ISBN: 9781498588430Publication Date: 2020-10-13
The College Affordability Crisis by Call Number: LB2342 .H55 2020ISBN: 9781440877230Publication Date: 2020-11-06
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement by Call Number: LC2771 .O43 2003ISBN: 0805845151Publication Date: 2003-01-01
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Call Number: RC628 .G674 2020ISBN: 9780807041307Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Books on Revolutionary Ideas & Innovations
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Call Number: BF408 .C77 1996ISBN: 0060171332Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Call Number: HD82 .B3237 2019ISBN: 9781786632623Publication Date: 2019-06-11
Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility by Call Number: HE5611 .S86 2017ISBN: 9780262036665Publication Date: 2017-09-22Chapters on innovation and sustainability
Implications of Social Media Use in Personal and Professional Settings by Call Number: HM742 .I47 2015ISBN: 9781466674011Publication Date: 2014-12-31
The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future by Call Number: HM846 .W33 2017ISBN: 9781626569713Publication Date: 2017-04-03
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It by Call Number: KF3120 .J34 2004ISBN: 9780691117256Publication Date: 2004-10-17Also available as an eBook!
Artificial Intelligence by Call Number: Q334.7.A78 2018ISBN: 9781682178676Publication Date: 2018-07-19
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence by Call Number: Q335 .C26 2014ISBN: 9780521871426Publication Date: 2014-06-12
Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America by Call Number: T36 .M33 1992ISBN: 0345358112Publication Date: 1992-04-28
The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity by Call Number: T39 .S57 2004ISBN: 0275966747Publication Date: 2004-04-30
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving by Call Number: TL152.8 .N66 2021ISBN: 9781642832402Publication Date: 2021-10-21
Books on Sustainability
Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact by Call Number: GE196 .B97 2017ISBN: 9781442269095Publication Date: 2017-03-17
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Call Number: GF75 .K59 2019ISBN: 9780735279223Publication Date: 2019
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by Call Number: HC79.C6 M3324 2021ISBN: 9780062856029Publication Date: 2021-05-25
The Circular Economy and Its Implications on Sustainability and the Green Supply Chain by Call Number: HC79.E5 C53 2019ISBN: 9781522581093Publication Date: 2019-01-18
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Call Number: HC79.E5 R58 2024ISBN: 9780316536752Publication Date: 2024-01-09
Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future by Call Number: HD60 .H387 2024ISBN: 9781503636217Publication Date: 2024-04-09
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming by Call Number: HD8039.F32 U619 2022ISBN: 9781642832211Publication Date: 2022-03-10Also available as an eBook!
The Energy Switch: How Companies and Customers Are Transforming the Electrical Grid and the Future of Power by Call Number: HD9685.U5 2021ISBN: 9781633886667Publication Date: 2021-06-15
The Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science by Call Number: QC981.45 .L45 2020ISBN: 9780197542101Publication Date: 2020-10-01
Growing a Sustainable City?: The Question of Urban Agriculture by Call Number: S494.5 U72 R67 2017ISBN: 9781442650619Publication Date: 2017
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability by Call Number: TA480.A6 A339 2023ISBN: 9780231204484Publication Date: 2023-05-23
Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice by Call Number: TD195.S64 M85 2019ISBN: 9780520288164Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting Out the Recycling System by Call Number: TD794.5 .P6745 2018ISBN: 9781538105399Publication Date: 2018-11-15
Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World by Call Number: TD798 .B84 2019ISBN: 9781440864162Publication Date: 2018-11-02
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by Call Number: TK2896 .T87 2022ISBN: 9780295750248Publication Date: 2022-08-16Also available as an eBook!
Books on Justice
Our Fight Has Just Begun: Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America by Call Number: E99.N3 B46 2022ISBN: 9780816541683Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Mass Incarceration by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HV9469 .M38 2018ISBN: 9781534500457Publication Date: 2017-07-15
America's Prisons by Call Number: Hot Topics Table HV9471 .A49 2016ISBN: 9780737775365Publication Date: 2015-12-16Also available as an eBook!
Gender, Crime, and Justice: Exploring the Dynamics by Call Number: HV6046 .W55 2017ISBN: 9781626376601Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Police-Related Deaths in the United States by Call Number: HV8141 .B245 2021ISBN: 9781793611574Publication Date: 2021-05-25
Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice, & the Death Penalty by Call Number: HV8699 .U5 J33 1996ISBN: 1569247617Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time by Call Number: HV8699.U5 U734 2012ISBN: 9781593324452Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change by Call Number: HV9950 .H395 2018ISBN: 9781442276956Publication Date: 2017-12-08
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century by Call Number: HV9950 .W38 2009ISBN: 9780742562868Publication Date: 2009-07-16
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Call Number: KF373.C585 A3 2022ISBN: 9781982173760Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Call Number: KF5399 .C44 2021ISBN: 9781631496516Publication Date: 2021-08-24
Punishment Without Crime by Call Number: KF9300.N38 2018ISBN: 9780465093793Publication Date: 2018-12-31
The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform by Call Number: KF9685 .O324 2017ISBN: 9781440840876Publication Date: 2017-03-20
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Window Policing by Call Number: KFX2093 .K64 2018ISBN: 9780691174303Publication Date: 2018-04-03
Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by Call Number: LA2317.C36 G37 2011ISBN: 9780807834480Publication Date: 2011-03-21Also available as an eBook!
