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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 Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $17.95 New - 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 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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Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival by Thomas O. Mcgarity Publisher Comments 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) List Price $45.00 Your price: $43.95 New - Hardcover
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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science by Akiko Busch Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy by Joel Magnuson Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Centrist Manifesto by Charles Wheelan Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II by Nancy Beck Young Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party by Robert B. Horwitz Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon by Wayne Allyn Root Synopsis "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) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror by Barnett R. Rubin Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Noam Chomksy Publisher Comments “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) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference by Jennifer Kahnweiler Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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