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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by Frances Moore Lappe  Publisher Comments Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe — author of sixteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet — distills her world...
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Rogat Loeb 
Publisher Comments In this "Chicken Soup for the Liberal Soul," the most eloquent writers of our time offer words of inspiration and hope. Includes contributions from Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Marge Piercy, Desmond Tutu and others....
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Rules for Radicals
by Saul D Alinsky Publisher Comments This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy....
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
by Incite! Women Of Color Against Violence (edt) Publisher Comments A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3)...
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War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General
by Smedley D. Butler Publisher Comments A new edition of this anti-war classic written by America's most decorated General....
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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the...
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What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy
by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81...
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of...
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Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism
by David Cortright Publisher Comments Is there room for nonviolence in an age of terrorism? Longtime peace activist and authority on creative nonviolence David Cortright makes a strong case for the need for nonviolent action now more than ever. Drawing on the legend and lessons of Gandhi...
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past...
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Hope in the Dark : Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities ((Rev)06 Edition)
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Throwing out the crippling assumptions with which many activists proceed, award-winning author Solnit proposes a new vision of how change happens....
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Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (BK Currents)
by Charles Halpern Synopsis This inspiring memoir is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world, while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work. Everyone who is trying to make waves ? to bring about needed social and institutional change ?...
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Seventeen Traditions (07 Edition)
by Ralph Nader Publisher Comments Ralph Nader is known for his lifetime of progressive activism and fearless critique of corruption in American politics and society. Yet in this fresh and inspiring new book, Nader takes a look backwardandndash;at a serene and enriching childhood spent in...
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365 Ways to Change the World: How to Make a Difference One Day at a Time
by Michael Norton Publisher Comments Great to give as well as to keep, this ultimate idea-a-day handbook can help anyone make a difference through do-able acts of conscience and kindness....
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Powells.com Staff Pick "War is seductive," Hedges tells readers in this powerful and intelligent book. Throughout our history, it has appealed to the human mind by providing a false sense of purpose and the opportunity to rise above everyday life. Using examples from his...
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for...
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Reveille for Radicals (69 Edition)
by Saul Alinsky Publisher Comments First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new Introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American...
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
by Jonathan Schell
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-414) and index....
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Citizenship Papers
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Nineteen essays by the author of "The Unsettling of America" are a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe....
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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
by Samantha Power Publisher Comments From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes an epic tale--part thriller, part tragedy--of the political career of humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello and his tragic death in 2003 in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq....
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