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...
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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...
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral...
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science...
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money...
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science...
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Cuba
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe...
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Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative [...]" —Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement,
Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of...
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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 BESTSELLERFrom 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...
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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 BESTSELLERFrom 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...
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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 BESTSELLERFrom 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...
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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 BESTSELLERFrom 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...
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Madison and Jefferson
Written by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $20.00
“[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense...
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The Politics of Bones
Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil
Written by J.Timothy Hunt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. During Ken’s incarceration, his brother, Dr. Owens Wiwa, fought valiantly...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
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The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $14.95
Robert Kagan, the New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, reaffirms the importance of United States’s global leadership in this timely and important book.
Upon its initial publication, The World America Made became one of the most talked about political...
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
Written by Alan Ehrenhalt
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are...
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Mr. President
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
Written by Ray Raphael
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.00
The dramatic and penetrating story of the political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.
For the first time, by focusing closely on the dynamic give-and-take at the Constitutional Convention, Ray Raphael reveals how politics and personalities cobbled together a...
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