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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Staff Pick Raj Patel's remarkable and ambitious new book asks some basic economic and political questions and comes up with surprising solutions. Patel explores ways we might more accurately value the world, arguing that our current market system is deeply flawed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.25 Used - Hardcover
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna Staff Pick "The Second World will be the definitive guide to world politics for years to come," says the flap copy. Clearly Random House is very high on this book. Could it be publishing's next The World Is Flat? You'd have to read more geopolitical economic theory... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs Staff Pick Rather than a grim manifesto on the world's problems, Jeffrey Sachs offers readers what he calls the four key goals of a global society prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better by Christopher Steiner Staff Pick Most books about Earth's dwindling natural resources leave me too discouraged to read beyond the jacket blurb. Not this one! Twenty Dollars Per Gallon is a refreshingly positive take on the effect that peak oil will have on civilization. It does lean... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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