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There are 1081 books in this aisle.
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by Howard Bryant  
Publisher Comments Despite enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity and on-field accomplishments, Major League Baseball is in crisis as its greatest players find themselves defending their achievements instead of celebrating them. The reason: steroids and other... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Heinberg
Publisher Comments This stark look at prospects for a truly sustainable culture speaks frankly about how it is time to "Powerdown," or to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, and much more.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Don DeLillo
Powells.com Staff Pick DeLillo's eleventh novel is a masterwork of language, character, vision, and story. Rarely does a book of this proportion succeed completely on every level, but from the cinematic opening in Ebbets Field on the afternoon of Bobby Thomson's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Lakoff
Powells.com Staff Pick Now more than ever, Don't Think of an Elephant is an important resource for progressives in this country. George Lakoff submits that for progressive values to reclaim mainstream America we must transform the language of American politics. "Frames are... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elaine Pagels
Publisher Comments A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Rogat (ed.) Loeb
Publisher Comments In this "Chicken Soup for the Liberal Soul," the most eloquent writers of our time offer words of inspiration and hope. Includes contributions from Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Marge Piercy, Desmond Tutu and others.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Goodall
Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Lamott
Publisher Comments The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies. A funny, warm, and wise novel about family and forgiveness from an author acclaimed as "nothing short of miraculous" (The New Yorker).... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Norman Solomon
Publisher Comments War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com Staff Pick Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching — it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Stewart
From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee
Publisher Comments "The Control of Nature" is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip K. Dick
Publisher Comments In The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God — or a being called Yah — were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Angell
Powells.com Staff Pick This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andres Duany
Publisher Comments A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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