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The Aclu Vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Valuesby Alan Sears, Craig OstenISBN 0805440453 (0-8054-4045-3)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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Balsamic Dreams : A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generationby Joe QueenanISBN 0805067205 (0-8050-6720-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Barbarians Led by Bill Gates : Microsoft from the Insideby Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin EllerISBN 0805057552 (0-8050-5755-2)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Barbarians Led by Bill Gates : Microsoft from the Inside: How the World's Richest Corporation Wields Its Powerby Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin EllerISBN 0805057544 (0-8050-5754-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Bear's Hug: Christian Belief and the Soviet State 1917-1986by Gerald BussISBN 0802803245 (0-8028-0324-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peakby Kenneth S. DeffeyesISBN 080902957X (0-8090-2957-X)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak'Book summary:"This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next."--Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Rice University, and 1996 Nobel laureate[via]
With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question, once thought to address a fairly remote contingency, has become ever more urgent, as a spate of books has drawn increased public attention to the imminent exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a geologist who was among the first to warn of the coming oil crisis, now takes the next logical step and turns his attention to the earth's supply of potential replacement fuels. In Beyond Oil, he traces out their likely production futures, with special reference to that of oil, utilizing the same analytic tools developed by his former colleague, the pioneering petroleum-supply authority M. King Hubbert.
"The bad news in this book is made bearable by the author's witty, conversational writing style. If my college econ textbooks had been written this way, I might have learned economics." --Rupert Cutler, The Roanoke TimesMore editions of Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak:
The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Centuryby Robert CooperISBN 0802141641 (0-8021-4164-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0802713262 (0-8027-1326-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'Book summary:[via]The codfish. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious than gold. Indeed, the codfish has played a fascinating and crucial role in world history.
Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present.
And he brings to life the cod itself: its personality, habits, extended family, and ultimately the tragedy of how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.
From fishing ports in New England and Newfoundland to coastal skiffs, schooners, and factory ships across the Atlantic; from Iceland and Scandinavia to the coasts of England, Brazil, and West Africa, Mark Kurlansky tells a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus.More editions of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
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The Coming Evangelical Crisis: Current Challenges to the Authority of Scripture and the Gospelby John H. Armstrong, R. Kent Hughes, John MacArthur, Michael Scott Horton, R.C. Sproul, Albert MohlerISBN 0802477380 (0-8024-7738-0)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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Conservative Bookshelfby Williamson, Chilton, Jr.ISBN 0806525371 (0-8065-2537-1)
Hardcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative Thinkersby Chilton WilliamsonISBN 0806526912 (0-8065-2691-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Court-Martial of Clayton Lonetreeby William Hoffman, Lake Headley, William KunsterISBN 0805008934 (0-8050-0893-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Courting Disaster: What Runaway Litigation Is Costing You and What Can Be Done to Stop the Falloutby J. Warren KniskernISBN 0805461620 (0-8054-6162-0)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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Crime and Punishment in Americaby Elliott CurrieISBN 0805060162 (0-8050-6016-2)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Crime and Punishment in America : Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crises Have Not Worked-and What Willby Elliot CurrieISBN 0805048359 (0-8050-4835-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Day in the Night of Americaby Kevin CoyneISBN 0805028749 (0-8050-2874-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japanby Alex KerrISBN 0809039435 (0-8090-3943-5)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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The Earl of Louisianaby A. J. LieblingISBN 0807102032 (0-8071-0203-2)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Earl of Louisiana'Book summary:In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events which began when Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of ?Uncle Earl?s? final year in politics. First published in 1961, The Earl of Louisiana recreates a stormy era of Louisiana politics and captures the style and personality of one of the most colorful and paradoxical figures in the state?s history.
This new edition of the work includes a foreword by T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Huey Long: A Biography. [via]
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0808501518 (0-8085-0151-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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End-Time Visions: The Doomsday Obsessionby Richard AbanesISBN 0805419659 (0-8054-1965-9)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Americaby Stephen SteinbergISBN 080704153X (0-8070-4153-X)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power And the Assault on Democracyby Noam ChomskyISBN 0805082840 (0-8050-8284-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
"Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a 'democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.
Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused--and urgent--critique to date.More editions of Failed States: The Abuse of Power And the Assault on Democracy:
Faith at War : A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktuby Yaroslav TrofimovISBN 0805077545 (0-8050-7754-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Faith Born in the Struggle for Life: A Re-Reading of Protestant Faith in Latin America Todayby Dow KirkpatrickISBN 0802803555 (0-8028-0355-5)
Hardcover, W.B. Eerdmans Pub Co
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Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Cultureby Leslie NewbiginISBN 0802801765 (0-8028-0176-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991by Don OberdorferISBN 0801859220 (0-8018-5922-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Injustive and Alcohol-Free Beerby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802140319 (0-8021-4031-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Global Village Idiot: Dubya, Dumb Jokes, and One Last Word Before You Voteby John O'FarrellISBN 0802140386 (0-8021-4038-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreamsby David F. WellsISBN 0802841791 (0-8028-4179-1)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishmentby Geoffrey M. KabaserviceISBN 0805067620 (0-8050-6762-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islamby Mark BowdenISBN 0802143032 (0-8021-4303-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islam'Book summary:From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, Americas first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.[via]More editions of Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islam:
The Harper's Forum Book: What Are We Talking About?by Jack HittISBN 080651230X (0-8065-1230-X)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower As Leaderby Fred GreensteinISBN 0801849012 (0-8018-4901-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Hitting the Jackpot: The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in Historyby Brett Duval FromsonISBN 0802141714 (0-8021-4171-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Holy War for the Promised Land: Israel at the Crossroadsby David DolanISBN 080542718X (0-8054-2718-X)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugeesby Caroline MooreheadISBN 0805074430 (0-8050-7443-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in Americaby Elinor LangerISBN 0805050981 (0-8050-5098-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Innumeracyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0809058405 (0-8090-5840-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0805241906 (0-8052-4190-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0802142494 (0-8021-4249-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Magnitude 8 : Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Faultby Philip L. FradkinISBN 0805046968 (0-8050-4696-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Media Monopolyby Ben H. BagdikianISBN 0807061557 (0-8070-6155-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Media Monopoly'Book summary:This sixth edition of the classic work on control of the modern media describes the digital revolution and reveals startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.
"An eye-opening attack on the growing concentration of major media."
-Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune [via]More editions of The Media Monopoly:
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The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Futureby Milton OsborneISBN 0802138020 (0-8021-3802-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Neocon Readerby Irwin M. StelzerISBN 0802141935 (0-8021-4193-5)
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The New Media Monopolyby Ben H. BagdikianISBN 0807061875 (0-8070-6187-5)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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News: The Politics Of Illusionby W. Lance BennettISBN 0801311675 (0-8013-1167-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's Warby Anthony ShadidISBN 0805076026 (0-8050-7602-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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On Bended Knee : The Press and the Reagan Presidencyby Mark HertsgaardISBN 0805209603 (0-8052-0960-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speechesby William J. BennettISBN 0805401539 (0-8054-0153-9)
Hardcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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People and Profits?: The Search for a Link Between a Company's Social and Financial Performanceby Joshua Daniel Margolis, James Patrick WalshISBN 0805840117 (0-8058-4011-7)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare Stateby Michael B. KatzISBN 0805069291 (0-8050-6929-1)
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The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valuedby Ann CrittendenISBN 0805066195 (0-8050-6619-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Crittenden is fond of pointing out the hypocrisies plaguing America, and one is the belief in a welfare state enabling single mothers. The true welfare state, she says, protects paid workers from unforeseen risks through social security, unemployment insurance, and workman's compensation. Mothers who work part-time or not at all have no such safety net and typically take a nosedive into poverty, along with their children, after divorce or the death of their spouse. Married working moms are also punished--they pay the highest taxes on earned income in America. Crittenden's impassioned argument is based on research in a variety of fields, from economics to child development to demography. She shows how mothers were demoted from an economic asset to dependents, why welfare for only a certain group of mothers bred bitterness among the rest, and why there is currently an exodus of highly trained women from the work force.
Crittenden also travels far and wide for solutions. She finds them not only in such European nations as Sweden--which has abolished child poverty by giving mothers a year's paid leave, cash subsidies, and flexible work schedules--but in the U.S. military, which runs the best subsidized child-care program in the country and knows the value of providing special benefits to those who selflessly serve their country. Ultimately, Crittenden insists, the equality women have been fighting for will only be achieved when mothers are recognized as productive citizens creating a much-needed public good--human capital, or in layman's terms, well-raised children who grow into productive, law abiding citizens (and who pay into social security). This is an admirable--and charged--defense of motherhood, reminding us that unpaid female labor is "the priceless, invisible heart of the economy," and those who engage in this labor deserve the same rights, and the same respect, as other workers. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Protecting America's Health: The Fda, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulationby Philip J. HiltsISBN 0807855820 (0-8078-5582-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terrorby Alfred MccoyISBN 0805082484 (0-8050-8248-4)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Race Mattersby Cornel WestISBN 0807009725 (0-8070-0972-5)
Hardcover, Beacon Pr
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Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Futureby Elliott CurrieISBN 0809015714 (0-8090-1571-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflictby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805055762 (0-8050-5576-2)
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International security expert Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millennium, wars will be fought not over ideology but over access to dwindling supplies of precious natural commodities. The political divisions of the Cold War, Klare asserts, have given way to a global scramble for oil, natural gas, minerals, and water. And as armies throughout the world define resource security as a primary objective, widespread instability is bound to follow, especially in those areas where competition for essential materials overlaps with long-standing territorial and religious disputes. In this clarifying view, the recent explosive conflict between the United States and Islamic extremism stands revealed as the predictable consequence of consumer nations seeking to protect the vital resources they depend on.
A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalization and intense economic competition.More editions of Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict:
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle Eastby Rashid KhalidiISBN 0807002356 (0-8070-0235-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, as Khalidi reveals with clarity and surety, America's leaders seem blindly committed to an ahistorical path of conflict, occupation, and colonial rule. Our current policies ignore rather than incorporate the lessons of experience. American troops in Iraq have seen first hand the consequences of U.S. led "democratization" in the region. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems intractable, and U.S. efforts in recent years have only inflamed the situation. The footprints America follows have led us into the same quagmire that swallowed our European forerunners. Peace and prosperity for the region are nowhere in sight.
This cogent and highly accessible book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding our present situation and to finding and pursuing a more effective and just foreign policy. [via]More editions of Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle East:
Russia in Search of Itselfby James H. BillingtonISBN 0801879760 (0-8018-7976-0)
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Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archeology in the Holy Landby Edward FoxISBN 0805071881 (0-8050-7188-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Sane Societyby Erich FrommISBN 0805014020 (0-8050-1402-0)
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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzerby Brooke A. MastersISBN 0805079610 (0-8050-7961-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
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Squandered Victory : The American Occupation and Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraqby Larry DiamondISBN 0805080082 (0-8050-8008-2)
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Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth Century Americaby Stephen H. NorwoodISBN 0807853739 (0-8078-5373-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Norwood explores how the early twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald, sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring, as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger, transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the present. [via]
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Struggle for Justice: A Report on Crime and Punishment in Americaby American Friends Service CommitteeISBN 0809013630 (0-8090-1363-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independenceby Pauline Jones LuongISBN 0801488427 (0-8014-8842-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Trauma at Home: After 9/11by Judith GreenbergISBN 0803271085 (0-8032-7108-5)
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The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequalityby Walter Benn MichaelsISBN 080507841X (0-8050-7841-X)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Tortureby Jennifer HarburyISBN 0807003077 (0-8070-0307-7)
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Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policyby Stephen SteinbergISBN 0807041211 (0-8070-4121-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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From the author of The Ethnic Myth comes this cogent analysis of how social science has placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. From a powerful critique of Gunnar Myrdal's classic An American Dilemma to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, Turning Back offers a challenge to liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the current backlash by providing a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies designed to advance the cause of racial justice. [via]More editions of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy:
The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Warsby Todd GitlinISBN 0805040919 (0-8050-4091-9)
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the Peopleby Jonathan SchellISBN 0805044574 (0-8050-4457-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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At times of global crisis, Jonathan Schells writings have presented influential alternatives to conventional, dead-end thinking. His classic bestseller, The Fate of the Earth, was hailed by The New York Times as an event of profound historical moment. Now as the world stands once more on the brink of upheaval, Schell reenters the fray with a lucid, impassioned, and provocative book that points the way out of the unparalleled devastation of the twentieth century toward another, more peaceful path.
Tracing the relentless expansion of violence to its culmination in nuclear stalemate, Schell uncovers a simultaneous but little-noted history of nonviolent action at every level of political life. His historical journey turns up seeds of nonviolence even in the bloody revolutions of America, France, and Russia, as well as in the peoples wars of China and Vietnam. And his investigations into the great nonviolent events of modern timesfrom Gandhis independence movement in India to the explosion of civic activity that brought about the surprising collapse of the Soviet Unionsuggest foundations of an entirely new kind on which to construct an enduring peace.
As Schell makes clear, all-out war, with its risk of human extinction, must cease to play the role of final arbiter. The Unconquerable World is a bold book of global significance; far from being utopian, it offers the only realistic hope of safety.More editions of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People:
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Centuryby Fred PearceISBN 0807085731 (0-8070-8573-1)
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You Shall Be As Gods : A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Traditionby Erich FrommISBN 0805016058 (0-8050-1605-8)
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