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Recommended reading from the Commonweal Institute.
Books 1 - 10 of 45 next » by James Lardner
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A long and painful episode in our nation's history is ending, and a new and more promising chapter is beginning. At this critical juncture progressives have a unique opportunity to reassert themselves as agents of bold ideas and catalysts of political... (read more) Used - Trade Paper 
by Michael Lux
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This is an accessible book that delineates how progressives and the progressive movement have created the American idea and ideals and forged the kind of country in which we want to live. It creates a platform from which to argue how progressives today... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Linda Tarr Whelan
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This is the story of how and why women's full participation in leadership matters is still seemingly a well-kept secret. To have the future we all want, women must play a more robust role in setting priorities and allocating resources. Women Lead the... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Lester R. Brown
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How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice.--Bill Clinton In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Thomas Frank
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From the most astute political scoffer since H. L. Mencken, the definitive account of the conservative reign of misrule and corruption Hailed as a “hunk of dynamite” (Salon) and celebrated for its “satiric wit” (The New York Times... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Thomas L. Friedman
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004, what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Tim Jackson
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Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson, a top sustainability adviser to the UK government, makes a compelling case... (read more) Your Price $17.00 Used - Hardcover
by Paul Hawken
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Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more) Sale - Trade Paper
by Ronald A. Heifetz
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The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In... (read more) New - Hardcover
by Thomas Homer-dixon
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Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Economic failure. Is this the world's inevitable fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of societies? Perhaps, says acclaimed author Thomas Homer-Dixon - or perhaps these... (read more) Your Price $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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