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Culture Warrior
by Bill O'Reilly
Price: Audio CD ($11.99) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
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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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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The World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Price: Digital 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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Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
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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
Price: Audio CD ($23.99) | Digital Download
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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Something for Nothing
by Brian Tracy
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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
Price: Audio CD ($15.18)
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
Price: Audio CD ($25.16) | Digital Download ($19.56)
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
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
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
Price: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($24.95) | Digital Download
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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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
by Bill Bryson
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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
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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
Price: Audio CD ($26.36) | Digital Download
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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Next
by Michael Lewis
Price: Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($16.67)
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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Don't Get Too Comfortable
by David Rakoff
Price: Audio CD ($13.56) | Digital Download
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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What's So Great About America
by Dinesh D'Souza
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($17.50)
America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism...
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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
Price: Audio CD ($99.00) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
Price: Audio CD ($45.00) | Audio Cassette ($39.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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
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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
Price: Audio CD ($20.70) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
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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We Have to Be Those Leaders
by Lama Surya Das
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
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
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download
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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Tulia
by Nate Blakeslee
Price: Audio CD ($49.98) | Digital Download ($27.96)
Early one morning in the summer of 1999 authorities in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers...
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A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
Price: Audio CD ($11.99) | Digital Download
One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
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On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Price: Audio CD ($7.99) | Digital Download
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bulls**t....
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