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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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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath by Nicco Mele Publisher Comments How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses—and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us In The End of Big, Internet pioneer and Harvard Kennedy School... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America by Naomi Schaefer Riley Publisher Comments In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power by Alison Pargeter Publisher Comments Although the popular uprisings of 2011 were not driven by Islamist forces, it is the Islamist movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, that have filled the power vacuums that opened up with the collapse of the regimes of the region. How did... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It by Tom Diaz Synopsis Newtown, Connecticut. Aurora, Colorado. Both have entered our collective memory as sites of unimaginable heartbreak and mass slaughter perpetrated by lone gunmen. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., are dealing with the painful... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other by R. J. Martin, Jr. (edt) Synopsis Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other is the follow-up to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, the groundbreaking anthology that appeared on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. "Eye... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Conspiracies: The Facts, the Theories, the Evidence by Andy Thomas Publisher Comments The Kennedy assassination. Princess Diana's death. The moon landing. Are official accounts of these events true—or is something nefarious going on? With trust in authorities at an all-time low, and the Internet always buzzing, conspiracy... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Publisher Comments "This is an exceptional book. Hirschman's intellectual and political journey is described with sharpness and perspicacity. Family life, cultural encounters, and the imprints of a lifetime highlight the importance and significance of one of the most... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Beyond Human?: Science and the Changing Face of Humanity by John Bryant Publisher Comments An exploration of what the most significant scientific advances of recent years mean for us as humans Recent scientific advances have made it possible to do the unthinkable—clone, design one's own babies, "genetically enhance" soldiers, and... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on Meet the Press by Solon Simmons Publisher Comments Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then by Ben Hammersley Synopsis In 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential guide to things we need to know for life in the 21st century. Explaining the effects of the changes in the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz Publisher Comments Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He is also a longtime pot smoker who wanted to better understand the drugs use and abuse in the United States. Marijuanamerica is the story of his trek across the country, where he... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town by Rex J. Rowley Publisher Comments Every year, more than thirty-five million people from all over the world visit Las Vegas; only two million call the city home. Everyday Las Vegas takes a close look at the lives of those who live in a place the rest of the world considers exotic, even... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley Publisher Comments Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s. Owsley "Bear" Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was still legal and he was the world's largest producer and distributor of LSD. Rhoney found... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project by Robert M. Townsend Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;Running since 1997 and continuing today, the Townsend Thai Project has tracked millions of observations about the economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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A Long Day at the End of the World by Brent Hendricks Publisher Comments A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco by Karl Beitel Synopsis A history of the antigentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protests, Global Movements examines the ability of local urban movements to engage in meaningful contestation with private real estate capital and area governmental... (read more) Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality by Patrick Sharkey Publisher Comments In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movements successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Dispossession: The Performative in the Political by Judith Butler Publisher Comments Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of... (read more) Your price: $20.95 New - Trade Paper
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