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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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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)

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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
by Oliver Burkeman
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Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth — even if you can get it — doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as... (read more)

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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
by Gar Alperovitz
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Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing called a... (read more)

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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by Mark Mazzetti
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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)

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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David A. Stockman
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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)

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Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
by Thomas O. Mcgarity
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How much economic freedom is a good thing?   This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on... (read more)

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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Blyth
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Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts — austerity — to... (read more)

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The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
by Akiko Busch
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A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world—local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup... (read more)

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The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
by Joel Magnuson
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The Approaching Great Transformation is about the coming shift in how we act and think in the world economically as the era of cheap oil comes to an end. The purpose of this book is to provide inspiration for those seeking to be part of the ongoing... (read more)

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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
by Gar Alperovitz
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Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming. But just what is this thing called... (read more)

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by Rachel Maddow
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation... (read more)

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Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns
Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns
by Glenn Beck
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When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why... (read more)

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Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
by Medea Benjamin
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Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet... (read more)

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The Centrist Manifesto
The Centrist Manifesto
by Charles Wheelan
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From debt ceiling standoffs to single-digit Congress approval ratings, America’s political system has never been more polarized—or paralyzed—than it is today. As best-selling author and public policy expert Charles Wheelan writes, now... (read more)

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Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II
by Nancy Beck Young
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History tells us that World War II united Americans, but as in other conflicts it was soon back to politics as usual. Nancy Beck Young argues that the illusion of cooperative congressional behavior actually masked internecine party warfare over the New... (read more)

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America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
by Robert B. Horwitz
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Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control. But 21st century... (read more)

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The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon
The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon
by Wayne Allyn Root
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"DONT GET MAD ABOUT OBAMAGEDDON...GET EVEN!" Build your wealth.Protect your faith and family.Secure your freedom. Dont just survive Obama...learn how to outsmart his big-government, socialist system and thrive! Bad times are coming -- how will you... (read more)

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Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror
Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror
by Barnett R. Rubin
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One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the... (read more)

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Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomksy
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“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.... (read more)

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Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference
Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference
by Jennifer Kahnweiler
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Introverts Do It Quietly Introverts may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but theres more than one way to have some sway. Jennifer Kahnweiler proves introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like... (read more)

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