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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum Publisher Comments America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists by A. V. Club Staff Pick The Onion can do little wrong, in my eyes, and this hilarious collection of pop-culture lists from the writers of the A. V. Club proves it once again. This book is perfect for anyone with a sense of humor who's ingested any pop culture in the last 30... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller, With a New Afterword “Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments Now available in trade paperback, the #1 bestselling New York Times author Glenn Beck tackles some of our country’s biggest problems in this funny, outrageous, and entertaining book. Glenn Beck believes that the reason why some of our biggest... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry by Dylan Ratigan Publisher Comments Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell. Infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism--The New York Times Book Review Americans' working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair Publisher Comments “When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC logo on the doors of the nations banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Betrayal of the American Dream by Donald L Barlett Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics by Joe Biden Publisher Comments “Nearly forty years after I first got involved, I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling. Thats why I wanted to be a part of it.” -Joe Biden As a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for Americas ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments Q: What is this book about? A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isn’t a plot. I’ve heard there’s a lot of stuff... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House by Edward Klein Publisher Comments Praise for The Amateur The Amateur is the best book Ive read on how Barack Obama is wrecking our country. I urge everyone who cares about America to read Edward Kleins eye-opening book.” Donald J. Trump, world-famous businessman, owner... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias by Andrew D Blechman Synopsis Blechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the implications of millions of Americans... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do about It by Jeffrey D Clements Synopsis This is the first practical guide for every citizen on the problem of corporate personhood and the tools we have to overturn it. Jeff Clements explains why the Citizen's United case is the final win in a campaign for corporate domination of the state... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America by Writers For The 99% Publisher Comments "An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain."Jonathan Lethem For two months in fall 2011, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame by Peter Dreier Publisher Comments A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for womens suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Democrips and Rebloodlicans: No More Gangs in Government by Jesse Ventura Publisher Comments DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action committees. Using historical details, such as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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