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Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.
In Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared... Read more >
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.
In Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared... Read more >
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Parecomic
Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
Parecomic is a graphic novel about the system we live in—what’s wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better. The recent upsurge in popular protest around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of capitalism and desire an alternative that will...
Read more >
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Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.95
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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Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.99
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Parecomic
Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $18.95
Parecomic is a graphic novel about the system we live in—what’s wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better. The recent upsurge in popular protest around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of capitalism and desire an alternative that will... Read more >
Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $18.95
Parecomic is a graphic novel about the system we live in—what’s wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better. The recent upsurge in popular protest around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of capitalism and desire an alternative that will... Read more >
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Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Written by Mary Janigan
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $13.99
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as... Read more >
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Written by Mary Janigan
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $13.99
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as... Read more >
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Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Written by Mary Janigan
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $27.50
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as... Read more >
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Written by Mary Janigan
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $27.50
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $15.99
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $15.99
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
Written by Hedrick Smith
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power... Read more >
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The 4% Solution
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
Written by The Bush Institute
Edited by Brendan Miniter
Foreword by George W. Bush
Introduction by James K. Glassman
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $26.00
Foreword by President George W. Bush
With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health
The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term... Read more >
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
Written by The Bush Institute
Edited by Brendan Miniter
Foreword by George W. Bush
Introduction by James K. Glassman
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $26.00
Foreword by President George W. Bush
With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health
The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term... Read more >
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The 4% Solution
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
Written by The Bush Institute
Edited by Brendan Miniter
Foreword by George W. Bush
Introduction by James K. Glassman
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $13.99
Foreword by President George W. Bush
With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health
The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term... Read more >
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
Written by The Bush Institute
Edited by Brendan Miniter
Foreword by George W. Bush
Introduction by James K. Glassman
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $13.99
Foreword by President George W. Bush
With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health
The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $24.95
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $24.95
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $19.99
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $19.99
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $27.00
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $27.00
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
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Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $11.99
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $11.99
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
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Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $20.00
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $20.00
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.
Over... Read more >
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $30.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $30.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $15.99
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $15.99
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $50.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $50.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply... Read more >
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American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
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The End Of Reform
New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Written by Alan Brinkley
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $13.99
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform... Read more >
New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Written by Alan Brinkley
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $13.99
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
Written by Robert B. Reich
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $14.95
The Next Economy and America's Future
Written by Robert B. Reich
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $14.95
Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath.
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced...
Also available as an
eBook.
The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street
Written by John R. Talbott
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
How strong was the American economy going into the present crisis? How strong will it be a year from now? How about five years from now? Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled—lied to—about the stability of our financial system. But what now?
John R... Read more >
Written by John R. Talbott
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
How strong was the American economy going into the present crisis? How strong will it be a year from now? How about five years from now? Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled—lied to—about the stability of our financial system. But what now?
John R... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
