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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Available on: Audio Download ($24.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This was the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constituted a major philosophic revolution.
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication....
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
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Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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Broke
by Glenn Beck
Available on: Audio Download ($24.95)
In the words of Harvard economist Niall Ferguson, the United States is “an empire on the edge of chaos.” Why? Glenn Beck thinks the answer is pretty simple: Because we’ve turned our backs on the Constitution.
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The Wal-Mart Effect
by Charles Fishman
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Because Wal-Mart has maintained an impenetrable wall of secrecy and imposed absolute compliance in that secrecy from those it does business with, we know astonishingly little about how the company actually operates or about its impact on our lives…
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Available on: Audio Download ($23.87) | Audio CD
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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The Dumbest Generation
by Mark Bauerlein
Available on: Audio Download ($14.39) | Audio CD | MP3 CD
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's under-thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
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Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD
"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris.
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The World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
In this two-part dialogue, Deepak and Ken discuss two very different contexts for approaching the world situation. War, poverty, ecological despoliation—what can we do to curb our self-destructive ways?
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Team Rodent
by Carl Hiaasen
Available on: Audio Download ($7.00) | Audio Cassette
Disney is so good, it's bad. So argues Carl Hiaasen, an award-winning investigative reporter...
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