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I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert  
Powells.com Staff Pick Stephen Colbert is America — and since we live in America, we must also live in him. Think long and hard about that as you devour this book which should be required reading for all Americans, and by "Americans" I mean "Stephen Colbert's body parts."...
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It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
by Amanda Marcotte Publisher Comments For all of you humming "I Will Survive" while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you're ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of...
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Mission Accomplished! or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak
by Christopher Cerf Publisher Comments Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious...
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Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up
by Bob Harris Publisher Comments The daily news gives you events but rarely context. So what do al-Qaeda, North Korea, and Iran really want? Which faction is which in Iraq and who’s arming whom? What’s the deal with Somalia, Darfur, and Kashmir? Fatah, Hamas, and Hezbollah...
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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Publisher Comments Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren't falling for any election year claptrap — and they don't want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington...
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I Hate Hillary: All the Reasons Why Hillary Just Isn't Right
by Thomas Williams Synopsis Are You kidding Me? Can you guess who said the following? "I certainly think the free-market has failed.' "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." "Bill and I have always loved each other...I'm proud of my marriage." "It's...
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The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings from a Raging Moderate
by Will Durst Publisher Comments With the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Will Durst hits them in the funniest places. In The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, this equal-opportunity offender swats both partisan...
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There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion
by Jim Hightower Publisher Comments < CENTER> Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author< /CENTER> < P> < BLOCKQUOTE> I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out.< BR> --Jim Hightower< /BLOCKQUOTE&...
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Desktop Titanic: For When You Have That Sinking Feeling! with Other and Paperback Book(s) and Paper
by Samantha Parks Publisher Comments It’s rocky in the sea of office survival. And statistics show that workers are drowning: 80% are stressed; 77% are completely burned out. With waves of paperwork and pressure, who wouldn’t want to send distress signals from their desks? To...
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments FUNNY.OUTRAGEOUS.TRUE. Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty, never seem to get fixed? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't very convenient. Fortunately, radio...
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Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
by Joseph Cummins Publisher Comments Today's political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote is an illustrated look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks...
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New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
by Bill Maher Publisher Comments Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who have begun to influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political...
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Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook
by Norm Feuti Publisher Comments ???Sigh. Another day, another dollar.??? ???& nbsp; ???Of course, in our case, that??'s literally true.??? ???& nbsp; ???Wait, you got a raise???? Welcome to the twisted, all-too-realistic world of ???Retail, ??? the comic strip by Norman Feuti that...
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We Have Ways of Making You Laugh: 120 Funny Swastika Cartoons
by Sam Gross Publisher Comments "Swastikas?" you ask. "Funny?" Well, sometimes funny. Gathered together in this outrageous, rueful, and often poignant collection of cartoons are one artist's extraordinary observations on the range of emotion that the controversial symbol has...
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Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism!
by Sacha Jenkins Publisher Comments Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racismis a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the...
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War Within: One Step At a Time (06 Edition)
by Trudeau Publisher Comments The initial stages of B.D.'s recovery from losing a leg in Iraq were dramatically portrayed in The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time, but his healing journey was far from over. As this powerful sequel shows, the "war within" can be a long and lonely...
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The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government
by Gary Groth and Mack White Publisher Comments Some of the medium's best practitioners take on the Bush Administration just in time for the election in this outraged work of comics journalism. The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government is an historical account of the high crimes...
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Who Let the Dogs in ? : Incredible Political Animals I Have Known (05 Edition)
by Molly Ivins Publisher Comments The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the...
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You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years
by Molly Ivins Publisher Comments In her long-awaited new collection, the Colt Peacekeeper of American political humor draws a bead on targets that range from the Libido-in-Chief to Newt Gingrich, campaign funny-money to the legislative lunacy of her native Texas--and hits a bull's-eye...
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Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict
by Paul Lewis Publisher Comments What do Jon Stewart, Freddy Krueger, Patch Adams, and George W. Bush have in common? As Paul Lewis shows in Cracking Up, they are all among the ranks of joke tellers who aim to do much more than simply amuse. Exploring topics that range from the sadistic...
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