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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
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Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate... (read more)
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Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts
by Herman Schwartz
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Schwartz raises the alarm about the creeping conservative campaign to "pack" America's courts with judges more identified with their ideological affiliation than their skill or regard for the Constitution.... (read more)
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Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the G.O.P., Their Friends and a Few Others Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the G.O.P., Their Friends and a Few Others
by Bruce J. Miller and Diana Maio
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In the wake of the Republican Revolution of 1994, when the G.O.P. won majority status in the U.S. House of Representatives and House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America made best-seller lists, Bruce J. Miller began collecting the verbal and... (read more)
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Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
by Jim Hightower
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America listens to Jim Hightower. More than eighty thousand people subscribe to The Hightower Lowdown Newsletter while his radio show is aired on more than sixty public and commercial radio stations. In They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time To Take It... (read more)
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
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Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment. Inside The... (read more)
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action) Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action)
by George Lakoff
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Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing?s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter... (read more)
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
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General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many... (read more)
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War Is a Racket : Anti-war Classic By America's Most Decorated General (03 Edition) War Is a Racket : Anti-war Classic By America's Most Decorated General (03 Edition)
by Smedley D. Butler
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A new edition of this anti-war classic written by America's most decorated General.... (read more)
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It Can't Happen Here It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in... (read more)
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
by Milton Mayer
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"Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening."—Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review "It is a fascinating story and a... (read more)
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