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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Staff Pick For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action) by George Lakoff Publisher Comments Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing?s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll Publisher Comments The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution by Stephen Breyer Publisher Comments This book, based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term "active liberty" as a sharing of the nation's sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner Publisher Comments The unholy alliance of the Political Right and Religious Right threatens to destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular aversion to God and religion by identifying religious values with a pro–war, pro–business, pro... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg Publisher Comments Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption? and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments Ultimate Sacrifice reveals, for the first time, John and Robert Kennedy's plan for a coup in Cuba on December 1, 1963 — a plan that involved a U.S. military invasion. Unique, distinctly different, and far more advanced than any previously disclosed... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (Modern Library Classics) by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Publisher Comments In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse... (read more) Your price: $9.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Abu Ghraib Investigations: The Official Independent Panel and Pentagon Reports on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq by Steven Strasser Publisher Comments In the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and abused by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib, a sprawling prison complex near Baghdad. The abuse was kept hidden by the U.S. military... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore Publisher Comments A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People by James Moore Publisher Comments Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People goes inside the White House and the Pentagon to show how the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was a Bush goal before 9/11?and how 9/11 became the justification. Bestselling author James Moore... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken Publisher Comments Al Franken is "the perfect guy to write a book attacking America's nasty, mean, vicious right-wing pols, pundits and preachers," wrote The Washington Post in its review of Lies. "But his book barely scratches the surface of the Bush administration's well-... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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United Arab Emirates Country Study Guide by Ibp Usa Publisher Comments Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers...... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Trade Paper
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Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever by Cass R Sunstein Publisher Comments In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right by John Cronin Publisher Comments A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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