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Why Daddy is a Democrat $9.00 "Why Daddy is a Democrat" brings to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy. Using plain and non-judgmental language, along with warm and whimsical illustrations, this colorful 28-page paperback depicts the Democratic principles of fairness, tolerance, peace, equality, and concern for the well-being of others. [Order] [Checkout]	No End In Sight $17.95 No End In Sight - Charles H. Ferguson. The first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy. This is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality, marking the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq— and how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war. Paperback - 672 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
What's the Matter with Kansas? $14.00 By Thomas Frank Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "the best political book of the year" (The New York Times), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas - a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most actively anti-liberal - and reveals how conservatism, formerly a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans. Paperback, 322 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	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. [Order] [Checkout]
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution $4.95 By The Founding Fathers. This handy 100-page booklet (4 in/10.5cm wide x 7 in/17.5cm high) is the perfect pocket reference for those of us who treasure the fundamental concepts that govern American democracy. Perfect for pouring cold water on the shaky arguments of the religiously misinformed, so carry it with you everywhere! [Order] [Checkout]	The New American Empire ~~$21.95~~ $13.95 Price reduced!! 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. [Order] [Checkout]
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights ~~$19.00~~ $12.95 Price reduced!! By Nadine Strossen Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the womens' rights-centered rationale for defending pornography. Paperback - 320 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	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. [Order] [Checkout]
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. [Order] [Checkout]	The Bubble of American Supremacy $22.00 By George Soros. In this compelling and heartfelt analysis of the United States' role in the post-9/11 world, George Soros challenges the Bush administration's disastrous conduct of foreign policy and the War on Terror. Harcover, 207 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
Beyond the War on Drugs: Overcoming a Failed Public Policy ~~$25.00~~ $20.95 Price reduced!! By Steven Wisotsky. Offers hard-hitting arguments to support the growing public opinion that the drug war, as it is currently conceived, cannot be won and ought not to be fought. Paperback, 279 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative ~~$15.00~~ $12.95 Price reduced!! By David Brock. In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. Paperback, 378 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
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. [Order] [Checkout]	Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American $16.95 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. [Order] [Checkout]
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. [Order] [Checkout]	Bioterror: Scientists, Industry, Government and Ethics $5.00 By Philip J. Regal; North American Committee for Humanism, Occasional Paper No. 1 Bioterrorism implies immense challenges for university scientists, the corporate community, and government. Professor Regal's groundbreaking analysis of the implications rests upon the humanist tradition of combining information, experience, and sensitivity. Paperback, 39 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
A Hitch In Time And Other Tales $5.95 By Edd Doerr. A series of historical tales, in the form of letters, that adds depth and breadth to one's understanding of American history. Paperback, 94 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	A Vindication of the Rights of Women ~~$9.00~~ $7.95 Price reduced!! By Mary Wollstonecraft. Published in the late 18th century, this was a true classic in the great campaign to attain universal suffrage. Paperback - 206 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
Confronting Systems of Violence: Memoirs of a Peace Activist ~~$12.95~~ $8.95 Price reduced!! By John M. Swomley. This book describes some significant but little known episodes of American history, such as how President Truman was forced to desegregate the armed forces and how the Pentagon suffered its worst defeat at the hands of a civilian coalition organized to prevent the adoption of permanent military conscription. Paperback, 150 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	Culture Wars and the Global Village: A Diplomat's Perspective ~~$27.00~~ $19.95 Price reduced!! By Carl Coon. A career diplomat examines the historical and cultural roots of world conflict. Hardbound, 255 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
Freedom is as Freedom Does $12.95 By Dr. Corliss Lamont. A Harvard College graduate's struggle for civil liberties and the onslaught against the American Bill of Rights after WWII. 325-page paperback. [Order] [Checkout]	War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes against Iraq $14.95 By Ramsay Clark, et al. A report to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal. Paperback, 281 pages. Limited Quantities Available. [Order] [Checkout]
The Devil's Dictionary $13.95 By Ambrose Bierce; with an introduction by Roy Morris. History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement. These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn reporter Ambrose Bierce the epithet's "Bitter Bierce", the "Devil's Lexicographer", and the "Wickedest Man in San Francisco". First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred title in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. Paperback, 256 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety ~~$13.00~~ $11.95 Price reduced!! In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illustrates the various ways in which society has come to value emotions over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense 'belief' have largely taken the place of rational discourse. Paperback - 278 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
The Atheist Debater's Handbook $21.00 By B.C. Johnson. Does God exist? Is there Divine intervention in our daily lives? Mr. Johnson contends that theism has not proved its case. This lively book was written to provide the skeptic with an arsenal of arguments against the theist. Some of the topics covered include: "God and Atheism," "God and Design," "God and Existence," "God and Religious Experience," "God and Morality," "God and Evil," and "God and Christianity." Buy your copy of the "Atheist Debater Handbook" today and be ready the next time a believer asks the questions. Paperback, 134 pages. [Order] [Checkout]	The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America $15.95 By Kimberly Blaker (Editor), Herb Silverman, Edward M. Buckner, Edwin F. Kagin, Bobbie Kirkhart. In this stark and troubling account of the Religious Right's vision for America, readers come face-to-face with fundamentalist goals and tactics that have long been under way. The Fundamentals of Extremism is an in-depth examination of the causes and characteristics of Christian fundamentalism and its effects on women, children, African-Americans, gays and lesbians, politics, education, and American society. Paperback, 288 pages. [Order] [Checkout]
The Godless Constitution ~~$14.95~~ $9.95 Price reduced!! The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom and offer a bracing return to the first principles of American governance. Paperback - 224 pages. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart]