The Altenberg 16
An Exposé of the Evolution Industry
Written by Suzan Mazur
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A new theory of evolution begins to emerge in the pages of The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry. Written by Suzan Mazur—a print and television journalist whose reports have appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Archaeology, Omni, and many other publications—the book is a front row seat...
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Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
Written by Kim Chernin
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The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtful collection of essays, Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has left...
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The Challenge of Islam
The Prophetic Tradition
Written by Norman O. Brown, Edited by Jerome Neu, Introduction by Jay Cantor
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The Prophetic Tradition: The Challenge of Islam is an enlightening set of lectures given by Norman O. Brown during the 1980s, exploring a wide-ranging array of topics concerning Islam. Brown reveals the overlooked relationship between Islam and early Christianity, exploring Islam’s relation to, and revision of, the Christian tradition, the literary...
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Dreams of the Presidents
From George Washington to George W. Bush
Written by Charles Barasch
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The stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...
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Hurricane Katrina
Response and Responsibilities, Second Edition
Edited by John Brown Childs
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The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They are a second volley following the immediate journalism, and suggest the kind of dialogue, critical analysis and hopeful spirit that will be necessary in the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. All essays were...
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Creating Peace by Being Peace
The Essene Sevenfold Path
Written by Gabriel Cousens MD
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Representing a synthesis of the author’s decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality, Creating Peace by Being Peace guides readers in creating peace on seven levels of engagement, from the body to the ecology to God. Author Gabriel Cousens addresses the increasingly urgent need to transform humankind with...
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The Worlding Project
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Christopher Leigh Connery and Rob Wilson
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Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range...
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Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from U.S. Universities
Written by Cecil Brown
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Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored the importance...
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Science Sold Out
Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
Written by Rebecca Culshaw, Foreword by Harvey Bialy
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There are many well-established scientific reasons that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is highly doubtful. In Science Sold Out, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher who...
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
Reflections on American Ideals
Written by Don Hanlon Johnson
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Finding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism. Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting...
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Prisons: Inside the New America
From Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib
Written by David Matlin, Foreword by Ishmael Reed
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This powerful exposè reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public trust. For ten years, David Matlin taught at a maximum-security prison, where he confronted daily the nature of society, crime, and violence. Based on his experiences, this book examines the history of prisons in the United States and shows...
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Abu Ghraib
The Politics of Torture
Contribution by David Levi Strauss, Barbara Ehrenreich and Mark Danner, Compiled by North Atlantic Books
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Abu Ghraib unveiled a lengthy list of disastrous actions and cover-ups by the Bush administration and the American military. Abu Ghraib examines the problem from many different perspectives, gathering together timely essays on the prison scandal from prominent progressive writers. Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the story through the lens of feminism...
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What Does Al Qaeda Want?
Unedited Communiques
Commentaries by Robert Marlin
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In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, al-Qaeda has become the most infamous terrorist organization in history. While their actions are deplorable, it remains a populist and idealist movement—and one that continues to spread. Despite heavy media coverage, most people are unaware of the group's ultimate goals. Sampling from actual...
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The Geneva Accord
And Other Strategies for Healing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Written by Michael Lerner
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Using the Geneva Accord as a springboard for a discussion of the issues surrounding the supposedly unsolvable problem of Isreali-Palestinian peace, one of America's most respected Jewish peace activists, Michael Lerner, looks at the arguments against the Accord from both the Israeli right and the Palestinian left. He examines Ariel Sharon's...
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Empire 2.0
A Modest Proposal for a United States of the West by Xavier de C***
Written by Xavier De C., Prologue by Regis Debray, Translated by Joseph Rowe
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Written by fictional character "Xavier de C***" as a plea to an American president, Empire 2.0 is a scorching satire of totalitarianism. In it, the hero, a Frenchman, renounces his citizenship to become an American. This breezy book argues that resistance to America's overwhelming power is futile and that to survive...
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Healing Israel/Palestine
A Path to Peace and Reconciliation
Written by Michael Lerner
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Healing Israel/Palestine shows that it is possible to be both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, and provides a clear blueprint for a peace settlement. Unequivocally opposed to war makers and terrorists, Rabbi Michael Lerner asserts that a spiritual and progressive perspective, rooted in the highest values of the human race, is crucial. Perfect...
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The Woman from Mossad
The Story of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program
Written by Peter Hounam
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After three years' military service, Mordechai Vanunu answered an ad for a control room job at the nuclear research center near Dimona. In 1976 he was assigned to Mochon 2, where he discovered the nuclear weapons program that he later divulged to Peter Hounam. Before his story could be published however...
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Hidden Casualties
Environmental, Health and Political Consequences of the Persian Gulf War
Edited by Saul Bloom, John Miller, Phillippa Winkler and James Warner, Foreword by Nancy Pelosi
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This volume reveals the full extent of the 1991 Persian Gulf War's devastation (including oil spills seventy times larger than the Exxon Valdez disaster, how the West armed Iraq, the link between oil fires and the storms that devastated Bangladesh and China in 1991, and the impact on Iraqi, Kuwaiti, and...
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The Case Against Free Trade
GATT, NAFTA and the Globalization of Corporate Power An Earth Island Press Book
Contribution by Ralph Nader and Jerry Brown
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This book examines the notion of "free trade" and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Essays by Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown, William Greider, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ritchie, Wendell Berry, Pat Choate, and others.
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Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior
Faces of Mars and Shiva in the Crisis of Human Survival
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough
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The preface to this anthology begins, “Nuclear war sits as a kind of zen riddle in the heart of modern civilization.” The goal of Nuclear Strategy is to publish essays, poems, a play, and a round-table discussion in an attempt to go beyond the current fixation of arms-control agendas emphasizing détente...
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