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Item #: 9780981610238
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Description: Joan Wile woke up one night thinking she had to do something about the war in Iraq. Little did she know how far she would go. In this outspoken memoir the founder of Grandmothers Against the War tells the amazing story of courageous, spunky women who...
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Item #: 9781585427659
Description: "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commer...
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Item #: 9781594201134
Description: Finding progressive change in the most surprising places, Air America Radio host Laura Flanders explodes the myth of "red"and "blue"states. As she journeys through the heartland of the U.S.A., she discovers that people don't vote for the GOP because ...
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Description: It was Martin Luther King Jr. who first encouraged Tom Hayden, a young writer, to cross the line from observation to direct action. For fifty years, Hayden has been an leading activist for civil rights, social justice, environmental protection and pe...
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Item #: 9780812973082
Description: From illegal wiretaps and unlawful imprisonment of American citizens to the religious extremism that influences our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, the late Molly Ivins ...
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Description: "Green is the new red, white, and blue,"declares the best-selling author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree and The World Is Flat. Friedman proposes an ambitious national strategy he calls geo-greenism, which can not only save the planet from overheat...
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Item #: 9780307237705
Description: At the 2004 Democratic Convention, Sen. Obama gave an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. For all the discord in our history, he said, we have always been guided by a dogged "audacity of hope."This book calls for a new poli...
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Item #: 9780143113621
Description: We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is governed by an administration intent on withholding the truth from the citizenry. Drawing on a life's work in politics a...
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Item #: 9780979414244
Description: The author of the three-million-copy best-seller Diet for a Small Planet unearths the root of today's global crises. Because we are creatures of the mind, says Lapp', it is our mental "frame"- our core assumptions about how the world works - that det...
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Item #: 9781590777138
Description: Here is the must-do guide to running and winning election to one of the country's 500,000 local political offices. The most comprehensive do-it-yourself guide available for anyone starting out in the campaign process, it is packed with information on...
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Item #: 9781603580052
Description: Hundreds of ideas for fighting climate change are floating about, and many of them are useless. Should we adopt a carbon tax? A carbon cap? A carbon trading system? It's quite possible that bad climate policy will actually delay real emission reducti...
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Item #: 9781596911994
Description: The authors celebrate the document that has made our country the longest surviving democracy in history, and warn us that our system is at risk. They show how the Constitution's framers devised a system that takes human nature into account and how it...
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Description: This is one of the great moral issues of our time, writes former Senator and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. "The day after Katrina hit, new government statistics showed that 37 million Americans live in poverty, up for the fourth year in a...
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Description: Based on a thorough examination of the New Right over 25 years, this extensively documented book credits the electoral success of the Republicans to a new "politics of fear"- not only of terrorists but of immigrants, racial minorities, gays and femin...
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Description: In Threshold, writer and Air America host Thom Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of our planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic, and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function. In clea...
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Description: MoveOn, the just-in-time civic action group, is a catalyst for a positive and powerful change now occuring in politics - that of ordinary citizens pooling their political clout to make a difference. Written by MoveOn members, these 50 essays demonstr...
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Item #: 9781930722682
Description: In large areas of this country, water is disappearing as consumption exceeds supply. In other places, battles are raging that will determine both its cost and its quality. Elsewhere, attempts to make a profit on it are wreaking havoc on our fragile e...
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Item #: 9781586483869
Description: Whatever our "politics," Nunberg "observes," "when" we talk about politics "nowadays," we can't help using language that embodies a conservative "world-view." The well-known NPR "Fresh" "Air" commentator and author of Going Nucular - who teaches ling...
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Item #: 9780547085951
Description: Shellenberger and Nordhaus triggered a fiery controversy with their essay "The Death of Environmentalism." Global warming is far more complex than past pollution problems, they argued, and American values have changed dramatically since the environme...
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Item #: 9781586484781
Description: In 2003, when PublicAffairs and the Century Foundation published an essay collection called The War on Our Freedoms, there was hope that this trend would prove a temporary reaction to 9 - 11. Today we see an ongoing pattern of undermining the judicia...
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Description: The U.S. once represented a paragon of democratic virtue to the world. Today that perception has been almost completely reversed. In South "America," under the guise of "anti-communism," we sponsored dictatorships and profited from the subversion of ...
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Item #: 9781585424245
Description: It is not fear itself that can shut us down, but our ideas about fear. The author of Diet for a Small Planet joins Jeffrey Perkins to offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want. Sharing...
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Item #: 9781555838737
Description: As the debate over gay marriage rights heats up in this presidential election year, this book offers a realistic view on the controversial topic. There are at least 1049 federal rights and protections afforded heterosexuals through marriage that rema...
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Description: Schwartz's book is more than a memoir of a life dedicated to human and civil rights in the United States. It is a call for the younger generation to repair a degraded environment, stop the encroaching limitations on civil rights, and banish once and ...
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Description: The author, chronicler of such pivotal social movements as the Kent State protests and Iraq war, turns a probing eye on echoes of corporate corruption and government folly inside each of us, and shows how we have to confront the inner tyrants as well...
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Item #: 9780972952927
Description: Did you know that 80 million people are now refugees from environmental disaster? Do you ever wonder whether your turn may be coming next? In this uncompromising little book you'll discover countless facts on the crisis that the government and mass m...
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Item #: 9781565847958
Description: The explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications offer the potential for a truly democratic media system with a wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture. But the big cable, TV, and Internet providers are ...
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Item #: 9780805086928
Description: In this most original examination of post-9 - 11 culture, Faludi illuminates the nation's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzi...
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Item #: 9780865715264
Description: Putting your body in the way of violence is a dramatic way of taking a stand. This book describes the powerful work done by peace teams and accompaniment projects, working directly with victims of violence and war in the world's danger zones. Accessi...
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Item #: 9780865714748
Description: Toms is best known for his interviews with well-known authors and activists on his radio show, New Dimensions. Here he dialogues with a number of individuals on the challenges to democracy we face as a nation in the wake of Sept. 11. These are the vo...
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Item #: 9780829816075
Description: The contributors, an all-white group of theologians, ethicists, teachers, ministers and activists, propose that a fundamental part of the answer to racism lies in white people's willingness to admit, understand, and confront the power of white suprem...
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Item #: 9780312374358
Description: Major U.S. corporations continue to ship jobs overseas and, because of their influence in Washington, avoid paying their share of taxes. Billions of dollars that these companies fleece from the American people go to expanding production capabilities ...
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Item #: 9780812973013
Description: At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant. Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat and in medica...
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Item #: 9780972890557
Description: Foreword by Thom HartmannPreface by David WannAfterword by Dr. Vandana ShivaWinner of the Evvy Award for "Best Personal Growth Book of the Year, " GLOBAL SENSE by Judah Freed updates Common Sense by Thomas Paine to ren...
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Item #: 9780972890526
Description: Foreword by Thom HartmannPreface by David WannAfterword by Dr. Vandana ShivaWinner of the Evvy Award for "Best Personal Growth Book of the Year, " GLOBAL SENSE by Judah Freed updates Common Sense by Thomas Paine to ren...
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Item #: 9781931498999
Description: Two of America's most popular political bloggers explain how the Democratic Party has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and "challenges," and how as a result Republican ideologues are now "running," and "ruining," our country. Then they ha...
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Item #: 9780312360061
Description: With all the drama of a "thriller," a best-selling Canadian author probes what really lay behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Once tightly controlled by Big "Oil," most of the world's oil reserves have been taken over by nationalistic regimes in the Mi...
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Item #: 9780312360160
Description: With a president who openly demonstrates his disdain for the rule of "law," it's time for the American people and Congress to act. Lindorff explains the legal history and grounds for impeaching George W. Bush and presents more than a half dozen artic...
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Item #: 9780312426477
Description: WHOSE FREEDOM? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff, at $14.00 (q) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 031242647X - 9780312426477. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "fre...
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Item #: 9780062516596
Description: On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a m...
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Item #: 9780374158286
Description: Since September "11," "2001," the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom." In Bush's 2005 inaugural "speech," "freedom," "free," and "liberty" were used 49 times. In a deep and alarming "analysis," an adviser to the Democratic...
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Item #: 9780374229993
Description: On September 11, 2001, the "Fear Switch"in our brains got flicked. How do we turn it off and reclaim our lives? This essential book offers a groundbreaking clinical, neuropsychological, and practical examination of what terrorism and fear-based polit...
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Item #: 9780312372545
Description: With a president who openly demonstrates his disdain for the rule of law, it's time for the American people and Congress to act. Lindorff explains the legal history and grounds for impeaching George W. Bush and presents more than a half dozen article...
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Description: The Founding Fathers of our great nation knew what it was like to live under the yoke of state-imposed faith. They drew up a Constitution that would allow absolute freedom of religion. Yet the Religious Right now views the separation of church and st...
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Description: Synopsis A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidate...
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Item #: 9780143037491
Description: Denying that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over "others," Rousseau argues instead for a "pact," or "social" "contract," between all the citizens of a state that is its sole source of sovereign power. From this fundamental "premise," h...
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Item #: 9780061236341
Description: Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel are a unique pair in American politics - pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together to find common ground. Inspired by their popular USA Today column, this book shows A...
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Item #: 9780143036258
Description: Throughout history, certain books have changed the world, transforming the way we see ourselves and each other. Books have inspired debate, dissent, outrage, peace, war and revolution. Now Penguin has re-packaged a series of these seminal works for r...
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Item #: 9780061146626
Description: The unholy alliance of the Political and Religious Right threatens to destroy our country. It also fosters a popular aversion to God and religion by identifying them with a pro-war, pro-rich, anti-science, and anti-environmental stance. Yet the Right...
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Item #: 9780061142567
Description: IN DEFENSE OF OUR AMERICA: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror - Real Stories of Real Americans by Anthony D. Romero and Dina Temple-Raston, at $24.95 (H) from Rayo, ISBN 0061142565 - 9780061142567. Romero, the executive director o...
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Description: THE GOOD FIGHT is a book filled with apt insights and common sense . . . Recommended for liberals and "conservatives." - Madeleine Albright. "Beinart" has given Democrats a blueprint for . . . taking back the White "House." - Samantha "Power," author...
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Description: December 16, 2005: On the front page of today's New York Times, veteran national security reporter James Risen writes that "months after the September 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on America...
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Description: RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE: The "Silent"Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have by Daniel Farber, at $26.95 (H) from Basic Books, ISBN 0465022987 - 9780465022984. The wording of the Ninth Amendment is direct: "The...
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Item #: 9780743286510
Description: Rural "strategists" famous for securing Democratic victories in places they shouldn't "have," the authors are self-proclaimed "bubbas" on a mission to convince their fellow southerners and rural Americans that the GOP's claim to represent "values," "...
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Item #: 9780452285682
Description: Catalyzed by a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion, which required the consent of the husband who left her and the approval of a hospital panel made up entirely of men, Michelman has devoted her life to protecting the rights of women and children. As president ...
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Item #: 9780787985110
Description: While other books focus on how to avoid invasions of privacy, Holtzman - a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker - presents a comprehensive insider's expos' of the world of invasive technology, who's...
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Description: Michael Moore is on a mission. He aims to unseat the man who wanted to be president without counting the votes. In his characteristic style, at once fearless and funny, Moore reveals what's gone wrong with America and how it can be fixed. Moore's pre...
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Item #: 9780742552241
Description: Despite the results of the 2006 elections, the coalition between conservative politics and fundamentalist Christianity still biases U.S. policies toward business and global domination. Ellingsen argues that until this coalition is dissolved we will r...
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Item #: 9780393061598
Description: Overton uses real-life stories to show how incumbent politicians of both parties use thousands of obscure election practices and bureaucratic hurdles to determine who votes and how those votes are counted - voting district "boundaries," number of boo...
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Item #: 9780385506175
Description: One morning in 1998, David "Gypsy" Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into a California redwood forest to protest the destruction caused by industrial logging. A logger for Pacific Lumber confronted them with obscenities and threats. ...
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Item #: 9780742540378
Description: Progressives and Democrats have done a good job of soldiering on after the devastating losses of 2000, 2002, and 2004, but the impassioned discussion of what to do next has had a fragmented qualityuntil now. Get This Party Started How Progressives Ca...
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Item #: 9781401309893
Description: Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America-everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in-but also offers advice on what you can ...
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Item #: 9781576756270
Description: Millions of working Americans vote as if their economic interests match those of the megawealthy. Why? According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the right wing has mastered the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communicati...
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Description: Our present economic system is in trouble. Inflation a trigger for putting strains on our way of life, and the gap between the poor and the wealthy is widening, while the middle class is being squeezed. The Vertical System gives us a plausible theore...
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Description: In her first book, Rachanow asked a question that really resonated with her readers - and became the title of her second. Here are dozens of brave, beautiful, brilliant, creative, and totally possible ideas that women have shared, complemented by ins...
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Description: Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important mov...
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Description: An Inconvenient Truth of water.""Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluti...
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Item #: 9780972890540
Description: Rather than fear, anger or despair over corrupt wars, lost civil liberties and environmental assaults, this book advocates practical idealism. Freed shows how a sense of our global oneness empowers us to change the world by changing ourselves. Follow...
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Item #: 9780061118418
Description: In anticipation of the midterm "elections," this workbook will help readers of the New York Times best-selling God's Politics put their faith into action. Wallis was a founder of Sojourners - Christians for justice and peace - more than 30 years ago ...
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Item #: 9780787979096
Description: Community organizing groups are flowering everywhere, and activists at every level are looking for tools to enhance their groups' capacity to create social change. This pragmatic how-to manual helps organizers and grassroots leaders build independent...
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Item #: 9780060841607
Description: "The Good Fight is a book filled with apt insights and common sense . . . Recommended for liberals and conservatives."- Madeleine Albright. "Beinart has given Democrats a blueprint for . . . taking back the White House."- Samantha Power, author of A ...
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Item #: 9781897244258
Description: The first manuscript of this book went into the fire five minutes before the arrival of the secret police in Communist Poland.The second copy, reassembled painfully by scientists working under impossible conditions of repression, was sent via...
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Item #: 9781583226247
Description: A deck of cards that is also a high-stakes game of power politics, disinformation, and electoral fraud for players of all ages.About the author:Hailed as "The most important journalist of our time - dominating journalism on two con...
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Item #: 9780956720382
Description: Industrial culture is in collapse. There is no infinite growth on a finite planet and oil, our most critical resource, has passed peak.We have entered a period of radical flux, and magic must respond to the world in which it operates, or it i...
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