Development as Freedom
Written by Amartya Sen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2000
Price: $17.00
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire...
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"All Labor Has Dignity"
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $17.00
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of...
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Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.95
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...
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The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Written by Sasha Issenberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $12.99
The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and...
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.00
From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values
Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the...
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Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $19.95
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...
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Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Written by Steve Vogel
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history,
Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the...
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His...
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Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.99
One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.
Since the collapse of September 2008, the conversation about economic recovery...
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Leading the Way
The Story of Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation
Written by Lee Edwards
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $27.50
The remarkable history of The Heritage Foundation, its influential founder, and the conservative movement in America.
Leading the Way tells the story of how Ed Feulner has transformed policymaking in Washington and has led The Heritage Foundation into becoming the most influential conservative think tank in the nation. Under Ed Feulner and for...
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