Political Science:

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.95

“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.

While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response... Read more >

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.95

“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.

While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response... Read more >

A Short History of Nuclear Folly

Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe

Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of... Read more >

A Short History of Nuclear Folly

Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe

Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of... Read more >

The Approaching Great Transformation
Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $18.95

"A brave book by a smart person with a masterful command of economic theory."—Publisher's Weekly

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities already at work...

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The Approaching Great Transformation
Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities already at work on the transition: energy descent pioneers in the UK and the US educating...

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Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Written by Cynthia Barnett

Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or... Read more >

Better Than Sex

Written by Hunter S. Thompson

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2012
Price: $12.99

"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the... Read more >

Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95

Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >

Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee

Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $10.95

Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the... Read more >

Fools Rule
Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $17.95

From the National Business Book Award-winning author of Stupid to the Last Drop, a captivating polemic on the global failure to deal with climate change.
 
Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have become despite mounting scientific evidence that immediate...

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Walking Home
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Written by Ken Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $21.00

One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.

From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in... Read more >

The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Written by Derrick Jensen
Edited by Lierre Keith

Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $26.95

In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous selections from his prescient... Read more >

The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Written by Derrick Jensen
Edited by Lierre Keith

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $26.95

In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous selections from his prescient... Read more >

The Measure of a Nation
How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing
Written by Howard Steven Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 269 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $20.00

If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction. This book focuses on how to improve America by... Read more >

The Measure of a Nation
How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing
Written by Howard Steven Friedman

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $11.99

If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction. This book focuses on how to improve America by... Read more >

This Crazy Time
Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $18.00

Passionate, profound and funny, Berman is inspiring people from all walks of life to get off the sidelines and fight the good fight--and win. This unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind-the-scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the...

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Our Way Out
Principles for a Post-apocalyptic World
Written by Marq De Villiers

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $21.00

Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation — it's no wonder that as a society, we're in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity's future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change. Our Way Out is the first time that our most... Read more >

Biocidal
Confronting the Poisonous Legacy of PCBs
Written by Theodore Michael Dracos

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $24.00

Whether or not you've heard of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), it's likely that this toxic chemical can be found in your cells. PCBs were invented in 1920 for the electronics industry, fueled the WWII military machine, then were put to domestic uses, and finally came to be present in every corner of...

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Dutch
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris
Read by Edmund Morris

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $20.00

This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore... Read more >

Fools Rule
Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.99

This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.

Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how... Read more >

Fools Rule
Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $13.99

This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.

Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how... Read more >

Dutch
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris

Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $14.99

This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore...

Read more >

Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Written by Cynthia Barnett

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or... Read more >

Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Written by Cynthia Barnett

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or... Read more >