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Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman Publisher Comments "Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Publisher Comments Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - 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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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff Publisher Comments An explosive exposé of Detroit, icon of America’s lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Spirit Level (Reprint) (11 Edition) by Kate Pickett Publisher Comments It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss Publisher Comments From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Vintage) by Charles C. Mann Publisher Comments From the author of 1491 — the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas — a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s explosive account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special forces into competing covert manhunting and killing operations — the new American way of war Osama bin Laden’s... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything — a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides... (read more) Your price: $36.00 New - Hardcover
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Publisher Comments A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change, Wolff writes in this compelling new manifesto for a democratic alternative based on workers managing their own workplaces. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier Publisher Comments A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley Publisher Comments Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter Publisher Comments Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food and Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington, D.C., area as part of the Community... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan Publisher Comments The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson Publisher Comments Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious — or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability -- Designing for Abundance by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Publisher Comments From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn whats next: The Upcycle. The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestos of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons ... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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