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Unite and Conquer, Kyrsten Sinema
Unite and Conquer, Kyrsten Sinema. Foreward By Janet Napolitano. Divide-and-conquer tactics stolen from conservatives do not work to further progressive causes. Legislator Krysten Sinema shows how the future of the progressive movement is to be found in unity, alignment and partnership. Sinemas no-nonsense, concrete approach shows that we can work together for change when we let go of specific outcomes and focus on shared values. Paperback - 192 pages. |
Michelle Obama: An American Story by David Colbert, paperback
$6.99 Michelle Obama: An American Story by David Colbert, paperback. This title delves into the greatest depth on the subject of the First Lady's family roots, reaching back to stories of her ancestors who toiled as slaves on a rice plantation in South Carolina. These historical chapters might feel tangential to readers seeking fast facts, but they add welcome context to Obama's inspiring story. When the text does focus solely on the First Lady, it offers a strong sense of who Obama was as a child, her solid upbringing, and her adult choices, all bolstered with numerous quotes from Obama and those who know her best, including her husband. Paperback - 151 pages. |
The End of America$13.95 In The End of America, Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties. Paperback - 176 pages. |
God Willing?
By David Domke. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and his administration offered a 'political fundamentalism' that capitalized upon the fear felt by many Americans. Political fundamentalism is the adaptation of a conservative religious worldview, via strategic language choices and communication approaches, into a policy agenda that feels political rather than religious. These communications dominated public discourse and public opinion for months on end and came at a significant cost for democracy. Paperback: 256 pages |
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason$13.95 In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs-even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he argues that "modernization" of religion poses considerable dangers of its own, as the accommodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict. This book won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. The author, Sam Harris, is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His newest book delving into this topic, "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values," is due out in October of 2010. Paperback - 348 pages |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
$26.95 By Joe Trippi This is the story of how Trippi's revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics forever. But it's also more than that. It's about how to engage Americans in real dialogue, how business leaders, government leaders, and anyone else can make use of the most revolutionary idea to come along since man first learned to light a fire. No, not the Internet, or computers, or telecommunications.... Democracy! Hardcover - 272 pages. |
The New American Empire
What is behind the American-led war in Iraq? Rodrigue Tremblay explains the fundamental - and disastrous - shift that foreign and domestic policies have taken under George W. Bush, since September 11, 2001. Paperback - 365 pages. |
Fanatics and Fools
$23.95 By Arianna Huffington. Fearless, funny, in full command of the facts, and ever passionate, Arianna Huffington offers not just a chapter-and-verse diagnosis of the fanaticism that drives the Bush White House but a bold vision of New Responsibility for rebuilding our broken democracy. Hardcover, 370 pages. |
Price of Loyalty, The
$26.00 By Ron Suskind. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. At its core are the candid assessments of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the only member of Bush's innermost circle to leave and then agree to speak frankly about what has really been happening inside the White House. Harcover, 348 pages. |
White House Employee Handbook
$14.00 From the writers of Whitehouse.org. A staffer's guide to success, profit and eternal salvation inside George W. Bush's Executive Branch. This humor-packed book provides all the tips, tricks and guidance you need to get ahead in today's administration. Softcover, 202 pages. |
Church Schools and Public Money: The Politics of Parochiaid
By Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez. "Parochiaid" - any form of direct or indirect aid to parochial and other nonpublic elementary and secondary schools - has given rise to the most enduring, bitter, and important controversy in the history of American education and church-state relations. Paperback, 156 pages. |
Confronting Church & State: Memoirs of an Activist
By John M. Swomley. Memoirs of Swomley's life-long fight for religious liberty. Information and inspiration about a never-ending struggle. Paperback, 133 pages. |
Dude, Where's My Country?$24.95 By Michael Moore. Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: Regime Change. The man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy's oil buddies is one of many targets in Mike's blistering follow-up to his smash #1 hit Stupid White Men, the biggest-selling nonfiction book of the year. Now no one's safe: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security," and even that right-wing brother-in-law of yours (yes, we all have one) who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner. Hardcover, 272 pages. |
James Dobson's War On America
$31.00 By Gil Alexander-Moegerle. Take a behind the scenes look at the private life of the militant moral and political activist credited with the 30-year power surge of the Religious Right. Hardcover - 305 pages. |
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
$19.95 By Nat Hentoff. One of America's most passionate writers about civil liberties enlivens issues about The Bill of Rights by giving profiles of individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. Provides an invigorating and entertaining reminder of why freedom of expression matters, and what some heroic Americans have done to protect it. Paperback , 236 pages. |
Reflections on the Revolution in France
$9.00 By Edmund Burke. Burke focused his keen eye on the social and political ramifications of egalitarianism and what its dissemination in France might mean for the future of the liberty, order, and political tradition that had served the Continent so well. Paperback, 253 pages. |
Religious Liberty and State Constitutions
By Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez. Examines the oft-overlooked differences between the constitutions of individual states and the U.S. Constitution, particularly in the area of church/state separation. Hardcover - 117 pages. |
The Case Against School Vouchers
By Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez, and John M. Swomley. No one disputes the right of religious bodies to operate private schools or the right of parents to send their children to them. But should any government be a party to a group's religious mission? Paperback, 135 pages. |
The Most Dangerous Man in America
By Robert Boston. An examination of Robertson's views, inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and power. This book warns of the danger of an intolerant extremist in American politics. Paperback - 240 pages. |
Three Voices of Extremism: Colson, Dobson, Kennedy
John M. Swomley exposes the machinations of three prominent practitioners of fundamentalist political meddling. Paperback - 121 pages. |
Why We Still Need Public Schools: Church/State Relations and Visions of Democracy
$21.00 Edited by Art Must, Jr. An exploration of the role of public education as a direct reflection of the quality of our democratic system as well as our ability to compete in the changing global economy. Paperback, 311 Pages. |
With God On Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America
$19.95 By William Martin. Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the rise of the Religious Right. Paperback, 418 pages. |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
$27.50 By Susan Jacoby An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination." - The New York Times. Hardback, 417 pages. |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureIn The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the doctrine that the mind has no innate traits - a doctrine embraced by many intellectuals during the past century - denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-hood slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgement of human nature based on science and common sense. |
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