Issues & Politics

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The Audacity of Hope - mass market paperback
By Barack Obama - $9.99 - add to cart

“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually li...

 

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - hardcover
By Kevin Phillips - $25.95 - add to cart

In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current housing and mortgage debacle is proof...

 

Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide - trade paperback
By Bob Neer - $9.95 - add to cart

Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the fastest and most reliable way to get up to speed on the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. It condenses the personal and ...

 

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army - trade paperback
By Jeremy Scahill - $18.50 - add to cart

Scahill's liberal horror story is about the company that has deployed many of the private contractors who have assisted the U.S. military in Iraq and been responsible for more than its share of dea...

 

Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority - hardcover
By Bob Moser - $28.00 - add to cart

A powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democrats, from an award-winning reporter and native SouthernerIn 2000 and 2004, the Democratic Party decided not to challenge George W. Bush in ...

 

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It - trade paperback
By Paul Collier - $16.95 - add to cart

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the ...

 

Butterfly Mind - hardcover
By Patrick Brown - $29.95 - add to cart

In this fascinating, revelatory, and politically astute memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's own education as a journalist over the pas...

 

China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges - trade paperback
By Minky Worden - $20.95 - add to cart

An essential book for understanding China on the cusp of the Olympics, China's Great Leap draws on the expertise of many of the world's leading China experts. These writers examine the People's Rep...

 

Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal - trade paperback
By Michael Brune - $16.50 - add to cart

In this timely book, the executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), shows how motivated American citizens can engage in promoting solutions and collectively pressure policymakers and co...

 

The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World - hardcover
By Thomas Campanella - $38.95 - add to cart

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled...

 

Dark Days - hardcover
By Kerry Pither - $35.00 - add to cart

On August 26, 2008 Penguin Group (Canada) will release Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror by Kerry Pither. Dark Days is an exposé of Canadian national se...

 

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals - hardcover
By Jane Mayer - $32.00 - add to cart

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security ...

 

Descent Into Chaos - hardcover
By Ahmed Rashid - $31.00 - add to cart

Starred Review. Long overshadowed by the Iraq War, the ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan and Central Asia finally receives a searching retrospective as Rashid (Taliban) surveys the region to reveal a ...

 

Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit - hardcover
By John H. Burgess - $34.95 - add to cart

For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western li...

 

The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? - trade paperback
By Joel Kovel - $29.95 - add to cart

Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem. Only no...

 

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