Four generations of Americans have come to associate Ralph Nader with the political issues that have defined our age, be it car safety in the 1960s or the anti-WTO demonstrations that recently shut do
Right now, there are more pets in America than people, and many count their pets among the most beloved members of their family. However, a surprising number of pet owners are not aware that the lifes
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pi
In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering 100-story-high structure in
“A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.”—Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times (London)“The reports of the New
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilker
Howard Zinn updates United States history to encompass the early years of the 21st century and the national elections of 2004 and 2006. He describes a time when catastrophic machinations of war have
This book, which remains untitled at this time, is the story of the sexual relationship between Mike Jones, a Denver man who worked as an escort, and the Reverend Ted Haggard, founder and pastor of t
Equally concerned with the deleterious effects of irrationality and stupidity on the one hand and propaganda and manipulation on the other, Baillargeon (education fundamentals, U. of Quebec, Canada) p
Internationally acclaimed novelist, scholar, poet, and filmmaker Assia Djebar presents a brutal yet delicate exposition of how warring worlds enact their battles upon women’s lives and bodies.?Foreign
In the current era of war, globalization, and domestic crisis, what is to be made of the global left? Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists,
Praise for Captured by Clayton Patterson:?“More than the indispensable reference and definitive work it is sure to become, this massive labor of love is also an elegy for a Lower East Side and an East
“In an increasingly Balkanized medical community, fractured by all manner of alternative therapies, Null, a PhD in human nutrition and public-health science, is leading one of the biggest br
“Gifford uses the charged story of . . . an apprentice smuggler as an occasion for his own literary and cinematic smuggling—from Conrad, Hemingway, Camus, John Hawkes, Howard Hawks, Welles and Ozu, am
Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation - the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger - one in eight Amer
A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions,
Extraordinary people will say extraordinary things, especially when it is Bob Abernethy and his team at PBS’ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly doing the asking. The Life of Meaning presents f
Jason Lewis is a star college basketball player just back from World War II. He's a hero, missing two fingers on his shooting hand. He can't play any longer, so he makes the ultimate ballplayer's sacr
How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers? Why were there no military interceptions? To what extent does the testimony
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the
