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by Amy Goodman Synopsis The award-winning journalists and authors of "The Exception to the Rulers" and "Static" return with this revolutionary work that celebrates the ordinary heroes who have stood up, often at great risk, to defend democracy and change America for the better.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chris Hedges Powells.com Staff Pick Radical religion has been a source of destruction for many nations throughout history. In Hedges's powerful critique of the political forces that seek to rule and imperil the United States he traces the alarming path of the emerging... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ron Paul Publisher Comments This much is true: you have been lied to, robbed and used by your own government the people you elected into office and the people you should be able to trust... In a nation thirsty for change, The Revolution is Ron Paul's call to arms. Moving... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments An immediate national bestseller, Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how, for more than half a century the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart Publisher Comments Today between forty and sixty nations, home to close to two billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George Crile Publisher Comments A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times best seller when it was... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Lindsay Moran Publisher Comments Call me nave, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rachel Corrie Publisher Comments One young woman's voice intense and poetic grapples with universal ideas as it chronicles a personal journey cut short. How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Press Publisher Comments One of the country's most well-known progressive commentators on how and why the conservative movement went off the rails. According to even Newt Gingrich, Republicans have lost their way. "Always better with one-liners than worthwhile... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Glenn Greenwald Publisher Comments A takedown of the GOP's deceitful propaganda machine from the hugely popular blogger of Salon.com's Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy Long since Americans were wooed by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kevin P. Phillips Publisher Comments The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots has let... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Al Gore Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Raji Chandrasekaran Powells.com Staff Pick Not to be lost amid the many books on Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, gives us a fascinating look at what life inside the Green Zone was like in the first year of post-Saddam Iraq. Here Chandrasekaran’s... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments With a new afterword by the author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny...the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins) Hailed as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Batstone Publisher Comments Award–winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his accessible and inspiring book, Batstone carefully weaves the narratives of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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