Product Description: American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments...read more

Forming the Cicero Investment Club at the height of the 1990s Internet boom, a single mom with a dead-end job, a well-intentioned lawyer, and a struggling comedian embark on a dangerous financial revenge plot that quickly spirals out of control. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Now in paperback on the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Goast tragedy.Available for the first time in paperback after selling out its hardcover print run and being frequently named among the best of the Katrina books, After the Storm offers "angry, learned, focused, readable, [and] essential" writing, according to Library Journal, in which contributors face what Ebony magazine calls "questions about poverty, housing, governmental decision-making, crime, community development and political participation, which were raised in the aftermath of the storm...read more

A collection of ten short, fictional stories based on and illuminating major legal cases involving the struggle of African Americans for civil and human rights includes Buchanan v. Warley, the first challenge to the constitutionality of segregation. (view table of contents)