The Party of Humanity
Written by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $16.99
THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative book—at...
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Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Written by Maude Barlow
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 18, 2011
Price: $9.99
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over...
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Poems for New Orleans
Written by Edward Sanders
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $14.95
The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...
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Trust is Not Enough
Bringing Human Rights to Medicine
Written by David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $24.95
Addresses the issues at the heart of international medicine and social responsibility.
During the last half-century many international declarations have proclaimed health care to be a fundamental human right. But high aspirations repeatedly confront harsh realities, in societies both rich and poor. To illustrate this disparity, David and Sheila Rothman bring together...
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Storming Caesar's Palace
How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Written by Annelise Orleck
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2005
Price: $25.00
The inspirational and little-known story of welfare mothers in Las Vegas, America's Sin City, who crafted an original response to poverty-from the ground upIn
Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring...
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Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Written by Maude Barlow
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $13.95
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over...
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Also available as an
eBook.