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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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The Craftsman
by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than "skilled manual labor," Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman's work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse...
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler Publisher Comments Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are...
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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
by Robert N., M.d. Butler Publisher Comments Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life...
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
by Raj Patel Publisher Comments "One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice." Naomi Klein, author of No Logoand The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese-both...
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
by Jennifer 8. Lee Publisher Comments There are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonald's, Burger Kings, and Wendy's combined. Egg rolls are as American as apple pie, and for New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee, the story of the Chinese-American experience can be told through...
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So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--And the President--Failed on Iraq
by Greg Mitchell Publisher Comments In early 2003, Greg Mitchell was one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously question the stated reasons for invading Iraq. In the years since, he has repeatedly challenged the media to probe the conduct of the war and its toll on our troops. Now,...
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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century
by Mike Wallace Publisher Comments The world is an uncertain place, which is why the future and the unknown absolutely fascinate us. Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question What will life be like 50 years from now? to sixty of the world's greatest minds. Their...
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh Publisher Comments What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel...
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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest
Publisher Comments We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented...
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida Publisher Comments It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According to Richard Florida...
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Dancing on Drugs
by Publisher Comments The last decade has seen the transformation of recreational drug use from a minority, almost subcultural activity into a widespread increasingly normalised leisure activity. Each weekend millions of the young and not-so-young fill the floors of night...
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Gross National Happiness
by Arthur C Brooks Publisher Comments Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In...
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A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life
by Neil Gilbert Publisher Comments The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. ...
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Cause of Death: The Truth about How People Die
by Jack Mingo Publisher Comments FACE IT. WE CAN GO ANYTIME. BUT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS! Death becomes you, and it's just another fact of life explored in Cause of Death, a revealing abundance of startling data, false perceptions, bizarre fallacies, and some totally unexpected...
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E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy
by Tim Pilcher Publisher Comments Disco biscuits, happy pills, doves, wobbly eggs, burgers, X, Adam, e, ecstasy-however you refer to it, MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) has been a life-changing force, for both good and bad, in millions of people’s lives. Not since LSD and...
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America
by Kathleen Rooney Publisher Comments Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and...
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Don't Blame It on Rio: The Real Deal Behind Why Men Go to Brazil for Sex
by Jewel Woods Publisher Comments There is a not-so-new, not-so-secret destination where a growing number of American black men are traveling for the kind of sex and freedom they say they can't find with black women. Thousands of unsuspecting women are kissing their men good-bye while...
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The Case for Make-Believe: Saving Play in Our Commercialized World
by Susan Linn Publisher Comments From the author of Consuming Kids, a clarion call for preserving play in our material world, a book every parent will want to read. In the nationally celebrated Consuming Kids, Susan Linn provided an unsparing look at how modern childhood is molded by...
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Beyond the Workfare State - Labour Markets, Equalities and Human Rights
by Book News Annotation British social scientists have decided that the system requiring people to work in order to receive public assistance cannot be reformed, and so explore ways it can be replaced. They draw primarily on key findings from case study research by the eight...
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