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The Ralph Nader Reader.
Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "The Ralph Nader
Reader is an extrordinary work that draws together Nader's best
writings throughout his career. The single volume reveals the depth
and range of his genius, and his passion for building an America true
to the ideals of social justice, informed self-government, and equality
of oppurtunity." -Robert W. McChesney.
"Ralph Nader is our indispensable voice of outrage against corporate
corruption, greed, invasion of privacy, and abuse of power." -James
K. Galbraith
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Hardcover.
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Hardcover. Autographed by Ralph Nader.
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Universal Health Care: What the United States can
Learn from the Canadian Experience.
Pat and Hugh Armstrong with Claudia Fegan, M.D., Paperback,
Cover Price $14.95.
Polls show Americans increasingly unhappy with our health care system.
Yet for nearly thirty years, our next-door neighboor has had a universal,
public health insurance system that its citizens hail as their favorite
social program. So why cant it happen here? Universal Health Care
explains how it can.
"A readable and convincing case for universal healthcare."
-Library Journal
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The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive
Movement.
Robert L. Borosage and Roger Hickey, eds. Paperback. Original
Cover Price $18.
"This is a blueprint for small 'd' democrats, an agenda that progressives
can unite around and fight for universal health care, empowering workers,
moving towards an environmentally sustainable economy, getting big money
out of politics."
-Senator Paul Wellstone.
"The Next Agenda offers ideas and argument for a new moral
center in American politics. This is the program that will inform the
new progressive majority as we fight to make America better. I recommend
it highly." -Rev. Jesse Jackson
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The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets
Inner City Youth.
Peter R. Breggin, MD, Ginger Ross Breggin. Paperback.
Original Cover Price $18.95.
"Terrifying data conveyed in the calm and sober voice of an experienced
and respected physician and researcher. A brilliantly controversial
and, for me, uncomfortably persuasive work--and a major addition to
our understanding of racism as it infiltrates our science and culture."
-Jonathan Kozol
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Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern
Culture.
Clay Calvert. Hardback. Original Cover Price $25.
"Calvert jumps into the debate over electronic voyeurism and challenges
notions of visual pleasure. The collective good, he asserts, teeters
between our desire to watch and our right to privacy. While tracing
the historical and psycho-cultural roots of the medias drive to exploit
private life on such programs as 20/20 and The Real World,
he asks a crucial question Is it ever inappropriate to watch? By deconstructing
the legal rationales that protect electronic invasions of privacy, Voyeur
Nation sets the stage for sustained argument." -Robin Andersen,
Fordham University, author of Consumer Culture and TV Programming
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Money From Thin Air: The Story of Craig McCaw, the
Visionary Who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar
Idea.
O. Casey Corr. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $25.
Odd, mysterious, yet public-spirited, McCaw is a technological visionary
who sees profit where others see thin air. His amazing, ongoing story
is required reading for anyone wanting to understand what it takes to
build an industry from scratch -- twice.
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You Cant Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered.
Eric A. Davidson. Intro by George M. Woodwell. Hardcover.
Original Cover Price $24.
" No healthy economy can be built on the ruins of natural systems.
Eric Davidsons book is like having a compass which marks true North
and the path for an ecologically solvent economy." -David Orr,
Chair of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College.
" Wonderfully perceptive, clear, and balanced account of what we
know about the interaction of the economy, the enivornment, and the
human condition -- and about how that knowledge can be applied to build
a better future." -John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor
of Environmental Policy, Harvard University
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Social Security and its Enemies: The Case for America's
Most Efficient Insurance Program.
Max J. Skidmore, Paperback, List Price $20.
"A welcome addition to the contemporary literature on Social Security,
by a partisan of social insurance who nonetheless meets ideological
cant with disciplined argument and credible evidence. A worthy counterweight
to the outpourings of the Cato Institute, State Street Bank, and other
denizens of privatization." -Ted Marmor, Yale University School
of Management.
"Max Skidmore's important new book helps Americans understand the
powerful political interests now trying to undermine our most successful
social insurance program. Young Americans especially will come away
understanding that the only way Social Security won't be there for their
generation is if we allow the forces of greed to control our government
in the new century." -Roger Hickey, co-director Institute for Americas
Future
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The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics.
John Dunn. Paperback. Original Cover Price $20. "The
Cunning of Unreason is a searching intellectual inquiry into the
nature of political action; but it is an even more disturbing and acute
essay upon the nature of political thought." -Paul Kennedy, Dilworth
Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, Yale
University.
"In this fascinating collection of essays, John Dunn prompts us
to look anew at the modalities and irnoies of politics, at the scope
and limits of state power." -Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor
of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
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Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall
Street.
Jeff Gates. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $25. "Democracy
at Risk argues for widespread ownership of capital resources in
an era of massive disparities of wealth that subordinate democracy to
plutocracy. Gates is a practical man, which means he offers politically
practical and financially feasible ways toward a broad-based prosperity
around the world. His facts will enrage you into higher expectation
levels for what a modern economy should look like and be for."
-Ralph Nader.
"Written with uncommon clarity and candor, Democracy at Risk should
be read by everyone who is concerned with liberty and equitable distribution
of power and wealth. The more prosperous and powerful you might be,
the more important it is to pay attention to what Jeff Gates has to
say." -Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA
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Money Rules: Financing Elections in America.
Anthony Gierzynski. Paperback. List Price $20.
In Money Rules, Anthony Gierzynski examines the historical roots
of the campaign-finance dilemna; demonstrates its effects on the local,
state, and national levels; and projects the long-term outcomes for
American politics
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Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences
of Peace.
William Greider. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $22.
Fortress America is an urgent call for a national debate about
our military, our government and their addictions. Powerful and insightful,
Fortress America is William Greider at his best. Revealing, eloquent
and intelligent, it is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand
the coming crisis.
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The Wrong Stuff: The Space Programs Nuclear Threat
to Our Planet.
Karl Grossman. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $22.95.
"Karl Grossman is a national treasure, and his absolutely vital
expose on nukes in space is a matter of real global security. Everyone
who values our survival on this planet must read this book--and
act on it." -Harvey Wasserman, Greenpeace USA. "Kennedys
dream has become our nuclear nightmare. Strangelove and Vader are alive
and working for NASA. This book should ignite public outrage."
-John Stauber, co-author, Toxic Sludge is Good For You! Lies, Damn
Lies and the Public Relations Industry
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If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have
Given us Candidates.
Jim Hightower. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $25. "Most
of what we have is chamomile. Jim Hightower is caffeine. Read this book."
-Warren Beatty.
"This book is so pulsating and concrete, so close to peoples daily
lives, pains, and hopes, that even when you put it down, it lifts you
up." -Ralph Nader.
"If youre the type who always has to hold your nose when youre
in the voting booth, Jim Hightower has given you something better to
do with those fingers; turning the pages of this hilarious and damning
indictment of what we call 'free elections' in this country." -Michael
Moore
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman,
and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods.
Julia Butterfly Hill. Hardcover. Original Cover Price
$25.
" My respect for Julia Butterfly Hill is fathomless. At a time
when so many have grown disheartened at the inability of any one person
to make a difference, Julia's actions have profoundly re-energized the
environmental movement all over the world. Her story is a beacon for
us all for what one committed soul can accomplish." -Bonnie Raitt
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The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special
Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Interest.
John B. Judis, Hardcover. Original Cover Price $26. "John
Judis is our finest reporter and analyst of Washington's inner workings.
His new book brilliantly relates the secret history of the Clinton era--its
origins, its frustrations, and its disloyal opponents. It is a chilling
tale that others have been either too trusting or too timid to tell
straight." -Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History,
Princeton University. "This is a compelling analysis of our irresponsible
elite--and an astute history of times when the public interest had real
meaning. John Judis is one of Americas best political journalists, and
his book is essential to understanding our current political malaise."
-Michael Kazin, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History
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The End of Shareholder Value: Corporations at the
Crossroads.
Allan A. Kennedy. Paperback. Original Cover Price $17.50.
"Allan Kennedy provocatively proposes that running corporations
to benefit shareholders damages companies and the societies they operate
in. He has raised questions about managing for shareholder value that
someone will have to answer."
-Mark Henricks, American Way.
"Allan Kennedy has always seen the corporation in its full cultural
context. Now he demonstrates that corporate managers have mistaken the
shareholder value formula for the building of true wealth. His fascinating
stories of companies make both great reading and a compelling case for
the broadening of corporate objectives." -Stan Davis, co-author
of Future Wealth and Blur
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Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan-Africanist Working-Class
Cultural Critical Perspectives.
Julian Kunnie. Paperback.
"Julian Kunnies insightful study Is Apartheid Really Dead?
examines the political contradictions and continuing problems of social
inequality that divide contemporary South Africa. Kunnie illustrates
that the South African black working class is still at a great distance
from achieving democracy." -Manning Marable, Columbia University.
"This is one of the finest intellectual discourses on South Africa
ruthlessly blunt and soul-searching. Kunnies text is powerful, provocative,
controversial, and harrowingly probing. It is a wake-up call to a South
Africa headed down the capitalist, neo-colonial route. The book is essential
reading, especially for scholars on Africa." -Micere Githae Mugo,
Chairperson, African American Studies, University of California at Berkeley
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All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and
Life.
Winona LaDuke, Paperback, Cover Price $16.
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental
activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native
resistance to environmental and cultural degredation. On each page of
this volume, LaDuke speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.
Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological
transformation.
"A brilliant, gripping narrative." -Ralph Nader
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Gene Future: The Promise and Perils of the New Biology.
Thomas F. Lee, Hard Cover, Cover Price$24.95. "Thomas
Lee has done a superb job in telling the story of genes -- not just
the science surrounding our gene future, but also the critically important
social and ethical implications of that future. He portrays the promises
and the very real perils of genetic engineering with compassion and
with accuracy." -W. French Anderson, M.D., Norris Cancer Hospital
and Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
" Tom Lee exhibits a mind that sweeps across scientific, social,
and ethical perspectives -- A valuable contribution to this crucial
dialogue." -Kenneth L. Vaux, PhD, Professor of Ethics in Medicine,
The University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's
Addiction to Credit.
Robert D. Manning. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $26.
"A provocative, insightful analysis of the way credit cards have
transformed the American marketplace and society." -Stephen Brobeck,
Executive Director of Consumer Federation of America.
"Credit Card Nation is a rousing indictment of the
new millennium's Robber Barons -- the merchants of debt who prey on
the young, the poor, the overextended. This is the book Americas finance
industry deserves".-Michael Hudson, co-author, Merchants of
Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty.
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Reflections of a Radical Moderate.
Elliot Richardson. Paperback. Original Cover Price$17.
"Instead of titillating scandals and banal one-liners, Richardson
gives us a timely, thoughtful anaylsis of the nations current political
malaise...Ultimately what the country needs is a more systematic, thoughtful,
and realistic approach to our problems." -Matthew Dallek, San
Fransisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle.
"Elliot Richardson is one of our most experienced and thoughtful
public servants, and Reflections of a Radical Moderate is a refreshing
book that will carry the voter beyond the sound bites and bumper stickers
of political campaigns." -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Drive-by Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to
Know.
Arthur E. Rowse. Paperback. Original Cover Price $17.95.
Drive-by journalism has fostered the widespread trashing of government,
the destruction of politicians via 'gotcha' journalism, the shaping
of politics to media needs and the swapping of empty political coverage
for political ads. It also means exploiting the First Amendment for
commercial gain, letting advertisers and professional publicists shape
the news, and tilting the media even further in the service of the privileged
few.
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Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One
Agent Took On the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech.
Frank Snepp. Hardcover. Original Cover Price $26.95.
"And what disclosures! Rich in detail, vivid...intriguing and convincingly
argued. Other memoirs or accounts of that time will have to be measured
against what Snepp, from his unique and highly informed vantage point,
has produced." -Kevin Buckly, front page, The New York Times
Book Review.
"Vigorous, gripping, novelistic in its evocation of mood, setting,
and character."
-Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
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Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings.
James A. Stimson. Paperback.
"Despite more than five decades of systematic survey analysis,
the character and significance of public opinion research remains as
elusive a phantom as it was in Walter Lippmanns day. In Public Opinion
in America, James Stimson is able to illuminate some of the darker
corners of public opinion research and to link the study of opinion
to major issues in American politics. I recommend it."
-Benjamin Ginsberg, Cornell University
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America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic Security
and Social Justice.
John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO. Hardcover.
Original Cover Price $18.95.
" John Sweeney -- the new visionary leader of the labor movement
-- understands that economic insecurity is the ticking time bomb of
our society. He also recognizes that a revitalized labor movement expands
the scope of democracy in American life. Read this and heed his words!"
-Cornel West
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