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Wal-mart: the High Cost of Low Price
by Greg Spotts

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Spotts takes you behind the scenes for the planning of a truly unprecedented campaign. He shows how individuals and groups can force even the largest corporations to change to better serve the interests of the countries and communities in which they do business....(read more)
 
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The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White... (read more)
 
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more)
 
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Covert Government and Conspiracy Theory

The Creature from Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin

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The Government has no need of taxes for revenue. Banks prefer lending to governments because the rarely repay loans. The Fed is not Federal, has no reserves and is by far not a bank. The IMF and the World Bank are disastrous for the poor and the... (read more)
 
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Military Industrial Complex

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill

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Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the... (read more)
 
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United States Foreign Policy

The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria

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One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on... (read more)
 
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International Studies

Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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The author of The Caged Virgin recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety. 75,000 first... (read more)
 
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Leftist Studies

Marx-engels Reader (2ND 78 Edition)
by Robert C. (ed.) Tucker

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Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism.... (read more)
 
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Labor

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more)
 
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The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
by Michael Lerner

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The unholy alliance of the Political Right and Religious Right threatens to destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular aversion to God and religion by identifying religious values with a pro–war, pro–business, pro... (read more)
 
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile

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Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of... (read more)
 
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The Obama Nation
by Jerome R. Corsi

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In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States... (read more)
 
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Human Rights

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power

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Activism and Peace Studies

Rules for Radicals : a Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (71 Edition)
by Saul D. Alinsky

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Fascism and Far Right

Anatomy of Fascism (04 Edition)
by Robert O. Paxton

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What "is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what... (read more)
 
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United States Culture

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner

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There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear... (read more)
 
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Utopia

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by Thomas More

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