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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
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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Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.95) | Audio Cassette
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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The World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Price: 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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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
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In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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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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A Christian Manifesto
by Francis Schaeffer
Price: Audio Download ($13.29) | 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 Download ($19.56) | Audio CD ($25.16)
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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What's So Great About America
by Dinesh D'Souza
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America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism...
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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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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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We Have to Be Those Leaders
by Lama Surya Das
Price: Audio 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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Team Rodent
by Carl Hiaasen
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Disney is so good, it's bad. So argues Carl Hiaasen, an award-winning investigative reporter...
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Next
by Michael Lewis
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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 Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Price: Audio Download ($19.95)
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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Tulia
by Nate Blakeslee
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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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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
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Radio host and best-selling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of the conventional-wisdom crowd.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
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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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Why We Suck
by Denis Leary
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
With his patented high-speed ranting and killer comic instinct, Leary has become a beloved antihero whose bracing invective and outrageous riffs have earned him a huge following.
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Peace Is the Way
by Deepak Chopra
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($20.70) | Audio Cassette
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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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
Price: Audio CD ($40.50) | Audio Cassette | 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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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley
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Pete Earley had no idea what it was like to be on the inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared mentally ill, and Earley was thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions, disparities, and catch-22s that is America's mental health system.
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Anti-Americanism
by Jean-Francois Revel
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Angered by the post-September 11 criticism of the United States, a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-François Revel has written Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that comes to America’s defense.
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.96)
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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Chuck Klosterman IV
by Chuck Klosterman
Price: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD
From "one of America's top cultural critics" ("Entertainment Weekly" comes a collection of material that is Klosterman's best work yet.
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