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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) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times by Paul Rogat Loeb Publisher Comments Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nickel and Dimes-10TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)11 Edition) by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History on trial :culture wars and the teaching of the past by Gary Nash Publisher Comments A great national controversy over the setting of voluntary standards for the teaching of history in our elementary and high schools erupted in 1994, opening up a new front in the nation's culture wars. As the authors Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by Paul Rogat Loeb Publisher Comments What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we keep on working for a more humane world, no matter how hard it sometimes seems? In a time when our involvement has never been needed more, this anthology of political hope will help readers with the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz Publisher Comments The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback.The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P Pierce Publisher Comments The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore Publisher Comments "I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum Publisher Comments An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of the American Left by Mari Jo Buhle Book News Annotation The cloth edition of this invaluable reference, published by Garland in 1990 at a price of $95, was selected by Choice and Library Journal as one of the ten best reference books published in 1990. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov Publisher Comments The title of this book is Reinventing Collapse, and I have to say that's exactly what this book manages to do. It's a short book, so you could reqad it in just a few hours, but it is packed with information and "make you think" moments. Orlov's... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Just How Stupid Are We? (08 Edition) by Rick Shenkman Publisher Comments Fifty percent of Americans can name four characters from The Simpsons,” but only two out of five can name all three branches of the federal government. No more than one in seven can find Iraq on a map. Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whatever It Takes-with New Afterword (08 Edition) by Paul Tough Publisher Comments What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor childrennot one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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 Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s by Chris Strodder Publisher Comments A celebration of the 1960s, this encyclopedia profiles the 250 most interesting personalities who significantly changed popular culture, including musicians, actors, directors, artists, athletes, politicians, writers, and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States by Jules Boykoff Publisher Comments Focusing on a variety of movements for political, social, and economic change in the US, Jules Boykoff shows the tools used by government agents to undermine the long-term viability of opposition in this country. Despite the pretense of democratic ideals,... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cannabible Collection by Jason King Publisher Comments At last, the choicest herb from renowned pot connoisseur Jason King'¬?s popular CANNABIBLE books is now rolled together in one potently psychotropic package. Asian Fantasy, Diesel, Haze, HP13, Mothership, Purple Urkel-all the legendary strains... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler Publisher Comments Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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