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Raising Global IQ
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
Written by Carl Hobert
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $26.95
A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States
In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K–12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students the tools they need to become responsible citizens in a shrinking, increasingly... Read more >
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
Written by Carl Hobert
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $26.95
A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States
In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K–12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students the tools they need to become responsible citizens in a shrinking, increasingly... Read more >
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Raising Global IQ
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
Written by Carl Hobert
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $26.95
A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States
In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K–12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students the tools they need to become responsible citizens in a shrinking, increasingly... Read more >
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
Written by Carl Hobert
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $26.95
A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States
In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K–12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students the tools they need to become responsible citizens in a shrinking, increasingly... Read more >
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $50.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $50.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $25.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $25.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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... Read more >
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China in Ten Words
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades.
Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation...
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Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
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The Unfair Trade
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $28.00
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances... Read more >
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $28.00
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances... Read more >
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The Unfair Trade
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.99
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances... Read more >
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.99
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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China in Ten Words
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation.
Framed by ten phrases common in...
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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La ciudad del crimen
Ciudad Juarez y los nuevos campos de exterminio de la economía global
Written by Charles Bowden
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $15.95
Ciudad Juarez y los nuevos campos de exterminio de la economía global
Written by Charles Bowden
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $15.95
En La ciudad del crimen Charles Bowden presenta una crónica devastadora de una urbe en pleno colapso. El libro comienza en enero de 2008, cuando una lista escrita a mano aparece en el monumento a los policías caídos en Juárez. En ella, bajo la leyenda “Para ellos que continúan sin creer”...
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10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank
Written by Kevin Danaher
Foreword by Anuradha Mittal
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Banklays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them... Read more >
Written by Kevin Danaher
Foreword by Anuradha Mittal
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Banklays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them... Read more >
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Global Governance
The Battle over Planetary Power
Written by Kristin Dawkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In Global Governance, policy analyst Kristin Dawkins offers a refreshingly hopeful and astute roadmap towards a democratic future, framing the respective roles and accomplishments of corporations, governments, and citizen activists in light of the day-to-day needs of communities around the world. Written with an eye to the realities of power, Global... Read more >
The Battle over Planetary Power
Written by Kristin Dawkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In Global Governance, policy analyst Kristin Dawkins offers a refreshingly hopeful and astute roadmap towards a democratic future, framing the respective roles and accomplishments of corporations, governments, and citizen activists in light of the day-to-day needs of communities around the world. Written with an eye to the realities of power, Global... Read more >
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Globalizing Civil Society
Reclaiming Our Right to Power
Written by David C. Korten
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles... Read more >
Reclaiming Our Right to Power
Written by David C. Korten
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Public Power in the Age of Empire
Written by Arundhati Roy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $7.95
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today... Read more >
Written by Arundhati Roy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $7.95
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Rogue Economics
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
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The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by... Read more >
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by... Read more >
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trade paperback.
The WTO
Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization
Written by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza
Introduction by Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $5.95
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law... Read more >
Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization
Written by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza
Introduction by Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $5.95
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law... Read more >
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Jihad vs. McWorld
Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Written by Benjamin Barber
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $15.99
Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are tearing apart--and bringing together--the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it... Read more >
Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Written by Benjamin Barber
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $15.99
Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are tearing apart--and bringing together--the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it... Read more >
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To Uphold the World
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
A 2008 Indie Next Pick
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait... Read more >
Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
A 2008 Indie Next Pick
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait... Read more >
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eBook.
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Rogue Economics
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
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