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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Credits: Digital Download
The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals, products, investments, and jobs...
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Culture Warrior
by Bill O'Reilly
Credits: Audio CD
With three straight #1 bestsellers and over 4 million copies of his books in print, O'Reilly takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America's heart and soul.
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Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
Credits: Audio CD
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Credits: 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 World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Credits: Digital Download
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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Something for Nothing
by Brian Tracy
Credits: Audio CD
Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society, people are increasingly vying for political advantage to live at the expense of others...
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A Christian Manifesto
by Francis Schaeffer
Credits: Audio CD
In this explosive book, Francis Schaeffer shows how law, government, education, and media have all contributed to a shift from our country's Judeo-Christian foundation.
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New Rules
by Bill Maher
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who have begun to influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political establishment.
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The Wal-Mart Effect
by Charles Fishman
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
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 Culture of Fear
by Barry Glassner
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
America is a country gripped by fear. In this widely-acclaimed book, Barry Glassner exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our anxieties....
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What's So Great About America
by Dinesh D'Souza
Credits: Digital Download
America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
by Bill Bryson
Credits: Audio CD
After living in Britain for 2 decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and...
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Give Me a Break
by John Stossel
Credits: Audio CD
In "Give Me a Break," ABCUs veteran correspondent John Stossel delivers a sharp, witty account of how his years of ferreting out frauds and exposing government corruption have transformed him from a liberal consumer reporter to a lover of laissez faire.
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War on the Middle Class
by Lou Dobbs
Credits: Audio CD
Offering solutions as well as commentary, prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Credits: Audio 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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Don't Get Too Comfortable
by David Rakoff
Credits: Audio CD
Now, in Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered.
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Next
by Michael Lewis
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
In Liar's Poker, the barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined...
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Credits: Digital Download
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This book records the experiences of a man who finds himself in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny.
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Credits: Audio CD
The bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
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Peace Is the Way
by Deepak Chopra
Credits: Audio CD
Deepak Chopra's passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Two years after graduating with Harvard’s class of 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John built a riverboat and took a leisurely trip that provides the framework for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
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We Have to Be Those Leaders
by Lama Surya Das
Credits: Digital Download
In this wide-ranging discussion of the obstacles and opportunities of bringing a new religion into a culture-in this case, Buddhism into America-Surya Das covers a multitude of critical issues, issues that confront not merely Buddhism but spirituality in general as it encounters the modern and postmodern world.
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
Credits: Audio CD
Now available in audio for the first time--a hilarious and discerning take on popular culture by the author of "Fargo Rock City" that explores everything from the crucial role of breakfast cereal to how John Cusack films destroy the modern meaning of love.
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