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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world’s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
Robinson...
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Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: Trade Paperback, 540 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents... Read more >
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: Trade Paperback, 540 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents a... Read more >
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $25.95
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $25.95
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a...
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Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a...
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Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Read by Dean Sluyter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $22.50
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill
Read by Dean Sluyter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $22.50
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a...
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Invisible Wounds of War
Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Format: Trade Paperback, 245 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
There’s no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights and sounds of war are still fresh in their minds. This empathic, inside look into the lives of... Read more >
Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Format: Trade Paperback, 245 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
There’s no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights and sounds of war are still fresh in their minds. This empathic, inside look into the lives of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Invisible Wounds of War
Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
There’s no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights and sounds of war are still fresh in their minds. This empathic, inside look into the lives of... Read more >
Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
There’s no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights and sounds of war are still fresh in their minds. This empathic, inside look into the lives of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care
The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Written by Stuart Altman
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—inter-nationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing... Read more >
The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Written by Stuart Altman
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—inter-nationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care
The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Written by Stuart Altman
Format: Hardcover, 429 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—inter-nationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing... Read more >
The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Written by Stuart Altman
Format: Hardcover, 429 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—inter-nationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Playbook for Progressives
16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
Written by Eric Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills lessons he learned from over forty years as an organizer... Read more >
16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
Written by Eric Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills lessons he learned from over forty years as an organizer... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Playbook for Progressives
16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
Written by Eric Mann
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills lessons he learned from over forty years as an organizer... Read more >
16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
Written by Eric Mann
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills lessons he learned from over forty years as an organizer... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Paul Kennedy
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges... Read more >
Written by Paul Kennedy
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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High Stakes
The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction
Written by Sam Skolnik
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $25.95
America is becoming hooked on gambling. From the millions of dens and dorm rooms lit by online poker games to the neighborhoods transformed by new casinos and slot machine parlors, legalized gambling has become an integral part of our lives.
With a singular blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of... Read more >
The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction
Written by Sam Skolnik
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $25.95
America is becoming hooked on gambling. From the millions of dens and dorm rooms lit by online poker games to the neighborhoods transformed by new casinos and slot machine parlors, legalized gambling has become an integral part of our lives.
With a singular blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
High Stakes
Written by Sam Skolnik
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $25.95
America is becoming hooked on gambling. From the millions of dens and dorm rooms lit by online poker games to the neighborhoods transformed by new casinos and slot machine parlors, legalized gambling has become an integral part of our lives.
With a singular blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of... Read more >
Written by Sam Skolnik
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $25.95
America is becoming hooked on gambling. From the millions of dens and dorm rooms lit by online poker games to the neighborhoods transformed by new casinos and slot machine parlors, legalized gambling has become an integral part of our lives.
With a singular blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Development as Freedom
Written by Amartya Sen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
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... Read more >
Written by Amartya Sen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Abolition Democracy
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context... Read more >
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
All You Can Eat
How Hungry is America?
Written by Joel Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as... Read more >
How Hungry is America?
Written by Joel Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of... Read more >
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Written by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, author... Read more >
Written by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, author... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
In Pursuit of Justice
Collected Writings 2000-2003
Written by Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Ralph Nader is one of America’s most controversial—and uncompromising— public figures. He is a man on a mission who believes that taking on the powers that be involves more than just talking about it—it also means taking action. From car safety in the 1960s to opposition to the World Trade Organization... Read more >
Collected Writings 2000-2003
Written by Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Ralph Nader is one of America’s most controversial—and uncompromising— public figures. He is a man on a mission who believes that taking on the powers that be involves more than just talking about it—it also means taking action. From car safety in the 1960s to opposition to the World Trade Organization... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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