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Wal-mart: the High Cost of Low Price
Wal-mart: the High Cost of Low Price
by Greg Spotts

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Spotts takes you behind the scenes for the planning of a truly unprecedented campaign. He shows how individuals and groups can force even the largest corporations to change to better serve the interests of the countries and communities in which they do business....(read more)
 
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

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“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 lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more)
 
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips

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The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put Americaas global future at risk In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing... (read more)
 
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United States Politics

The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf

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The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more)
 
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter

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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more)
 
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more)
 
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Covert Government and Conspiracy Theory

The Creature from Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin

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The Government has no need of taxes for revenue. Banks prefer lending to governments because the rarely repay loans. The Fed is not Federal, has no reserves and is by far not a bank. The IMF and the World Bank are disastrous for the poor and the... (read more)
 
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins

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From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposA(c) of international corruptiona and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner... (read more)
 
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Kurlansky

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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... (read more)
 
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Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times
by Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year. "Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive 'half slave and half free." — from Moyers on America Over the years millions of... (read more)
 
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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--And How We Can Fight It Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--And How We Can Fight It
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A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
by Chris Harman

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The only comprehensive "bottom up" history of the world from the earliest human society to the twenty-first century. From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the... (read more)
 
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United States Culture

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
by Kevin P. Phillips

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The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance — nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots — has let... (read more)
 
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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger

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Newsbreaking and controversial — an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security... (read more)
 
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Leftist Studies

Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx

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Das Kapital, originally intended as an unbelievably ambitious (and never completed) six-volume work, represents one of the key landmarks in the scientific understanding of capitalist development, bourgeois society and the economics of class conflict.... (read more)
 
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World [American Empire Project]
by Noam Chomsky

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In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished... (read more)
 
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Human Rights

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
by E Benjamin Skinner

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To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.... (read more)
 
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