big-box store
description: a large retail establishment, usually part of a chain
216 results
Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States
by Bernadette Hanlon · 18 Dec 2009
(Morton 2002). The mall area still struggled until, in 1998, the old Severance mall was demolished. The new structure that replaced it was anchored by big-box stores, such as Walmart and Home Depot, and a large cinema complex. New housing developed around the new town center. Cleveland Heights sees such redevelopment as
Designing for Emotion
by Aarron Walter · 4 Oct 2011 · 89pp · 24,277 words
headless corporations pitting profits against human welfare. But local farmers are finding new markets as consumers search for food produced by people for people. While big-box stores proliferate disposable mass-market goods, websites like Etsy and Kickstarter are empowering artists, craftspeople, and DIY inventors who sell goods they’ve designed and created
The Gated City (Kindle Single)
by Ryan Avent · 30 Aug 2011 · 112pp · 30,160 words
-- NIMBYs (for Not-In-My-Backyard). Residents use government zoning rules, historical designations, and public pressure to block changes of all kinds: from skyscrapers and big box stores to fiber optic cable hubs and trauma helicopters.[1] Their actions aren’t necessarily nefarious. Most just want to protect neighborhoods, views, and buildings they
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by Cathy O'Neil · 15 Mar 2022 · 318pp · 73,713 words
grandmother to her sessions at the dialysis center. Yet if those activities preclude him from a long commute to a minimum-wage job at a big-box store, he risks losing the skimpy benefits he might have qualified for. As society punches down on him, he and his family suffer. To roll back
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
by David Goodhart · 7 Sep 2020 · 463pp · 115,103 words
to manipulate heavy machinery in a factory manufacturing autos, appliances, or the steel to make them laments his current circumstances driving a forklift in a big-box store—if he is lucky enough to be doing that. A robot does his old job, maybe in the same factory but more likely in Mexico
The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World
by Aaron Hurst · 31 Aug 2013 · 209pp · 63,649 words
aisles may be harder to navigate than the typical chain grocery store, the popularity of these markets is undeniable. From bodega-lined urban neighborhoods to big-box store suburbs, we are seeing a longing for a meaningful connection to our food—a way to create community, connect with the growers, and heal the
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel · 2 May 2022 · 363pp · 98,496 words
Cambodian sweatshops are packed into forty-foot containers, then winched by dockside cranes into ships bound for Europe, where they will line the shelves of big-box stores. Oil sucked from a 150-million-year-old deposit beneath the Saudi desert travels the aquatic highway of the Suez Canal, ultimately filling the tanks
Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse
by Thomas Chatterton Williams · 4 Aug 2025 · 242pp · 76,315 words
this trip still alarmed me. During the summer, I’d watched grainy videos of brazen, racially inclusive bands of looters ransacking boutiques in Manhattan and big-box stores in Philadelphia (and many other locations), stripping clothing racks clean or wheeling heavy appliances through seething parking lots, but I was not prepared for the
Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After
by Sophia Dembling · 6 Jan 2015 · 170pp · 47,569 words
with the proprietor, who sees a lot of people every day. (One good reason among many, by the way, to patronize small, independent stores over big-box stores.) When he worked at night, Eric would often stop for “exactly two drinks” at a low-key bar where there were rarely any other patrons
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
by Danielle Ofri · 1 Feb 2017 · 289pp · 87,137 words
a bag of chocolate-covered pretzels or a vat of caramel corn the size of an oil drum that someone had lugged in from a big-box store in the suburbs. Leftover pumpkin pies and apple pies showed up in the teachers’ lounge. There were bowls of chocolate Kisses in the principal’s
Sabotage: The Financial System's Nasty Business
by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan · 28 Jan 2020 · 218pp · 62,889 words
Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right
by Thomas Frank · 16 Aug 2011 · 261pp · 64,977 words
Tyler Cowen-Discover Your Inner Economist Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist-Plume (2008)
by Unknown · 20 Sep 2008 · 246pp · 116 words
What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions
by Peter Neuwirth · 2 Mar 2015 · 161pp · 51,919 words
Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America
by Jamie Bronstein · 29 Oct 2016 · 332pp · 89,668 words
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
by Diane Coyle · 23 Feb 2014 · 159pp · 45,073 words
Innovation and Its Enemies
by Calestous Juma · 20 Mar 2017
Future Sex
by Emily Witt · 10 Oct 2016 · 197pp · 64,958 words
Home Building Secrets: Save Thousands Building Your Next Home: For the first time homeowner or the second time homeower who did not learn from their first mistakes
by Ronald Jones · 22 Dec 2015 · 83pp · 26,284 words
Venice: A New History
by Thomas F. Madden · 24 Oct 2012 · 466pp · 146,982 words
Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society
by Thomas Frank · 18 Jun 2018 · 182pp · 55,234 words
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
by Eric Klinenberg · 1 Jan 2012 · 291pp · 88,879 words
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
by Juliet B. Schor · 12 May 2010 · 309pp · 78,361 words
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
by Steven Ujifusa · 9 Jul 2012 · 650pp · 155,108 words
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature
by Beth Shapiro · 15 Dec 2021 · 338pp · 105,112 words
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins · 1 Jan 2006 · 497pp · 123,718 words
How to Fix Copyright
by William Patry · 3 Jan 2012 · 336pp · 90,749 words
30 Days to a Clean and Organized House
by Katie Berry · 13 May 2014
Habitat
by Lauren Liess · 27 Aug 2015
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
by Jonathan Tepper · 20 Nov 2018 · 417pp · 97,577 words
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
Where We Want to Live
by Ryan Gravel · 2 Feb 2016 · 259pp · 76,797 words
Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
by Howard Karger · 9 Sep 2005 · 299pp · 83,854 words
Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Nov 2010 · 103pp · 32,131 words
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg · 10 Sep 2018 · 281pp · 83,505 words
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel · 14 Jun 2020 · 287pp · 86,870 words
The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
by Fred Pearce · 28 May 2012 · 379pp · 114,807 words
The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
by Guy Spier · 8 Sep 2014 · 240pp · 73,209 words
The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure
by Shawn Micallef · 10 Jun 2014 · 104pp · 34,784 words
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
by Witold Rybczynski · 8 Oct 2024 · 187pp · 65,740 words
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
by Sofi Thanhauser · 25 Jan 2022 · 592pp · 133,460 words
Protecting Pollinators
by Jodi Helmer · 15 Nov 2019 · 249pp · 66,546 words
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida · 22 Apr 2010 · 265pp · 74,941 words
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
by Christopher Wylie · 8 Oct 2019
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen · 14 Jan 2021 · 297pp · 88,890 words
The Great Railroad Revolution
by Christian Wolmar · 9 Jun 2014 · 523pp · 159,884 words
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
by Charles de Ganahl Koch · 14 Sep 2015 · 261pp · 74,471 words
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass
by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri · 6 May 2019 · 346pp · 97,330 words
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing · 6 May 2008 · 484pp · 131,168 words
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino · 5 Aug 2019 · 305pp · 101,743 words
City on the Verge
by Mark Pendergrast · 5 May 2017 · 425pp · 117,334 words
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil
by Alex Cuadros · 1 Jun 2016 · 433pp · 125,031 words
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
by Carl Safina · 18 Apr 2011
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
by Julia Watkins · 6 Apr 2020
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert · 15 Mar 2021 · 221pp · 59,755 words
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
by Chris Arnade · 3 Jun 2019 · 166pp · 52,755 words
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
by Eva Dou · 14 Jan 2025 · 394pp · 110,159 words
Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future
by Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon and Eric Schlosser · 2 Feb 2009 · 323pp · 89,795 words
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele · 14 Apr 2013 · 270pp · 79,992 words
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
by Tyler Cowen · 11 Apr 2012 · 364pp · 102,528 words
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
by Jeff Rubin · 19 May 2009 · 258pp · 83,303 words
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 words
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up
by Annabelle Gurwitch · 31 Aug 2010 · 237pp · 82,266 words
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
by Paul Jarvis · 1 Jan 2019 · 258pp · 74,942 words
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
by Beth Macy · 15 Aug 2022 · 389pp · 111,372 words
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer · 31 Aug 2017 · 281pp · 71,242 words
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles · 30 May 2022 · 318pp · 91,957 words
Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
by Tim Queeney · 11 Aug 2025 · 264pp · 88,907 words
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks · 8 Aug 2016 · 548pp · 147,919 words
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by Kevin Roose · 9 Mar 2021 · 208pp · 57,602 words
The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly · 14 Jun 2021 · 265pp · 75,202 words
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 28 Sep 2014 · 243pp · 65,374 words
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne · 5 Sep 2007 · 458pp · 134,028 words
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
Stuffocation
by James Wallman · 6 Dec 2013 · 296pp · 82,501 words
Green Interior Design
by Lori Dennis · 14 Aug 2020
The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition
by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek · 17 Aug 2015 · 257pp · 64,285 words
Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World
by Michal Zalewski · 11 Jan 2022 · 337pp · 96,666 words
Poverty for Profit
by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words
Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring
by Michael A. Tompkins and Tamara L. Hartl · 31 Mar 2007 · 183pp · 59,353 words
Digging Out
by Randy Frost · 13 Feb 2013 · 210pp · 64,632 words
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability
by David Owen · 16 Sep 2009 · 313pp · 92,907 words
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
by Daniel Knowles · 27 Mar 2023 · 278pp · 91,332 words
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words
Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
by Glenn Adamson · 6 Aug 2018 · 220pp · 64,234 words
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
by Richard E. Nisbett · 17 Aug 2015 · 397pp · 109,631 words
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
by Tom Slee · 18 Nov 2015 · 265pp · 69,310 words
The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
by Timothy Sandefur · 16 Aug 2010 · 399pp · 155,913 words
Slow
by Brooke McAlary · 22 Aug 2017 · 149pp · 44,375 words
Simple Matters: Living With Less and Ending Up With More
by Erin Boyle · 12 Jan 2016 · 127pp · 38,674 words
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words
Bad Company
by Megan Greenwell · 18 Apr 2025 · 385pp · 103,818 words
There's Got to Be a Better Way
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The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee · 23 May 2016 · 383pp · 81,118 words
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
by Tamara Draut · 4 Apr 2016 · 255pp · 75,172 words
Peer-to-Peer
by Andy Oram · 26 Feb 2001 · 673pp · 164,804 words
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
by Alex Prud'Homme · 6 Jun 2011 · 692pp · 167,950 words
Freedom
by Daniel Suarez · 17 Dec 2009 · 427pp · 112,549 words
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
by William Poundstone · 4 Jan 2012 · 260pp · 77,007 words
Suburban Nation
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
by David Sedaris · 22 Apr 2013
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words
Lonely Planet's Best of USA
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
by Sasha Abramsky · 15 Mar 2013 · 406pp · 113,841 words
vN: The First Machine Dynasty (The Machine Dynasty Book 1)
by Madeline Ashby · 28 Jul 2012 · 343pp · 93,544 words
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
by Kevin Mitnick, Mikko Hypponen and Robert Vamosi · 14 Feb 2017 · 305pp · 93,091 words
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by Vicki Sokolik · 23 Nov 2023 · 332pp · 104,544 words
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
by Earl Swift · 8 Jun 2011 · 423pp · 129,831 words
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by Jared Sullivan · 15 Oct 2024 · 545pp · 147,673 words
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau · 7 May 2012 · 248pp · 72,174 words
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
by Elizabeth L. Cline · 13 Jun 2012 · 256pp · 76,433 words
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
by Martin Ford · 13 Sep 2021 · 288pp · 86,995 words
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan · 15 Feb 2002 · 518pp · 170,126 words
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
by Alan Ehrenhalt · 23 Apr 2012 · 281pp · 86,657 words
The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
by Kirsten Grind · 11 Jun 2012 · 549pp · 147,112 words
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
by Richard L. Brandt · 27 Oct 2011 · 222pp · 54,506 words
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner · 29 Aug 2012 · 317pp · 84,400 words
Fix Your Gut: The Definitive Guide to Digestive Disorders
by John Brisson · 12 Apr 2014
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by Jessica Bruder · 18 Sep 2017 · 273pp · 85,195 words
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins · 2 Aug 2021 · 430pp · 135,418 words
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
by Christopher B. Leinberger · 15 Nov 2008 · 222pp · 50,318 words
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy (Bicycle)
by Elly Blue · 29 Nov 2014 · 221pp · 68,880 words
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits · 14 Sep 2019 · 976pp · 235,576 words
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. · 24 Sep 2019 · 242pp · 71,943 words
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
by Matt Paxton and Phaedra Hise · 3 May 2011 · 225pp · 64,008 words
Borrow: The American Way of Debt
by Louis Hyman · 24 Jan 2012 · 251pp · 76,128 words
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck · 27 Feb 2018 · 382pp · 107,150 words
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell · 1 Jan 2000 · 850pp · 254,117 words
With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen · 7 Dec 2010 · 549pp · 116,200 words
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
by Craig Lambert · 30 Apr 2015 · 229pp · 72,431 words
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey · 1 Jan 2001 · 378pp · 102,966 words
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan · 1 May 2007 · 372pp · 96,474 words
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by David Sax · 15 Jan 2022 · 282pp · 93,783 words
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
by Yancey Strickler · 29 Oct 2019 · 254pp · 61,387 words
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by Jon C. Teaford · 1 Jan 2006 · 395pp · 115,753 words
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
by Stephen Witt · 15 Jun 2015 · 315pp · 93,522 words
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by Martin Lindstrom · 23 Feb 2016 · 295pp · 89,430 words
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by Leigh Gallagher · 26 Jun 2013 · 296pp · 76,284 words
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by Richard Maxwell · 15 Jan 2001 · 268pp · 112,708 words
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by Bill Sharpsteen · 5 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 29,543 words
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by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
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by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
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by Jeff Campbell · 4 Nov 2009
Stacy Mitchell
by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)