Beyond a House Divided
The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media
Written by Carl Anderson

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88774-0 (0-307-88774-X)

If you follow politics or the news, America is a country of culture wars and great divides, a partisan place of red states and blue states, of us against them. From pundits to politicians it seems that anyone with an audience sees a polarized country - a country at war with... Read more >

The New Media Monopoly
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters
Written by Ben H. Bagdikian

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 15, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6187-9 (0-8070-6187-5)

When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian’s warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation’s news “alarmist.” Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America’s daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers... Read more >

The Flight of the Intellectuals

Written by Paul Berman

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-933633-51-0 (1-933633-51-4)

It created a worldwide furor when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. After all, as a major profile in The New York Times Magazine observed, Ramadan is one of the Muslim world’s most charismatic and influential figures, with a long career... Read more >

Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0169-1 (0-8070-0169-4)

Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding

The seminal speeches that helped catapult Barack Obama to the White House.

In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry and former presidential speechwriter Josh Gottheimer introduce Barack Obama’s most memorable speeches... Read more >

Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0104-2 (0-8070-0104-X)

Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding

Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
... Read more >

Secrets
On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
Written by Sissela Bok

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72473-5 (0-679-72473-7)

In this "distinguished and necessary book" (The New York Times Book Review) Bok discusses the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in government, science, public affairs, family life, psychotherapy and the confessional.

Under what circumstances is it wrong to pry into secrets?
Are there times when a promise of secrecy must be... Read more >

The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Written by Daniel J. Boorstin

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74180-0 (0-679-74180-1)

First published in 1962, Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions introduced the notion of “pseudo-events” —events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of “celebrity” as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.”... Read more >

The Fox Effect
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
Written by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27958-3 (0-307-27958-8)

Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.

The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from... Read more >

Free Ride
John McCain and the Media
Written by David Brock and Paul Waldman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27940-8 (0-307-27940-5)

John McCain's underdog campaign in 2000 was one of the great surprises of recent presidential politics; portraying himself as a maverick and an outsider, McCain managed to get closer to the nomination than anyone expected. Then in 2004, there was rampant speculation in the media that McCain would join John Kerry's... Read more >

9-11
Was There an Alternative?
Written by Noam Chomsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-343-8 (1-60980-343-4)

In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately... Read more >

Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Written by Noam Chomsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 8, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-888363-82-1 (1-888363-82-7)

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a... Read more >

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
The World According to Ann Coulter
Written by Ann Coulter

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5418-3 (1-4000-5418-4)

In How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, Ann Coulter offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American political scene to date. With incisive reasoning, refreshing candor, and razor-sharp wit, she forcefully argues just why she believes liberals have got it so... Read more >

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Written by Ann Coulter

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-40895-2 (0-307-40895-7)

“Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as ‘citing facts,’ is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their eyes, well, that’s when I feel truly alive.”

So begins If Democrats Had Any Brains... Read more >

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Written by Ann Coulter

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-35345-0 (0-307-35345-1)

“Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as ‘citing facts,’ is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their eyes, well, that’s when I feel truly alive.”

So begins If Democrats Had Any Brains... Read more >

Black Code
Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Signal
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-2533-4 (0-7710-2533-5)

Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain.

In Black Code, Ronald J. Deibert, a... Read more >

The News About the News
American Journalism in Peril
Written by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71415-3 (0-375-71415-4)

Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?

Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post... Read more >

Propaganda

Written by Jacques Ellul

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1973
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71874-3 (0-394-71874-7)

"A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, [Ellul] explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is... Read more >

Fat Man in a Middle Seat
Forty Years of Covering Politics
Written by Jack W. Germond

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75867-6 (0-375-75867-4)

For more than forty years, Jack Germond enjoyed an extraordinary career in political reporting. With his trademark no-nonsense style and tremendous wit in abundance, Fat Man in a Middle Seat remembers the personalities that dominated national politics during Germond’s career: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ronald... Read more >

The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9294-6 (0-8129-9294-6)

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he... Read more >

Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-72045-0 (0-307-72045-4)

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball... Read more >

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Written by Chris Hedges

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3463-5 (1-4000-3463-9)

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has... Read more >

Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71449-8 (0-375-71449-9)

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political... Read more >

Team Rodent
How Disney Devours the World
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 5, 1998
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-42280-4 (0-345-42280-5)

"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving... Read more >

Censored 2012
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011
Edited by Mickey Huff and Project Censored

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-347-6 (1-60980-347-7)

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the... Read more >

Creeping Failure
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-7710-4148-8 (0-7710-4148-9)

The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and... Read more >