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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
by John Micklethwait
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist.
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Epicenter
by Joel Rosenberg
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($19.99)
A riveting book about the dramatic changes that will transform the world as we know it. Americans are anxious about the future, the world's and their own.
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Price: Audio Download ($19.96) | Audio CD ($39.98)
There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John C. Bogle, founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual fund group.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Price: Audio Download ($26.67) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Kidder tells the true story of a socially conscious genius who uses his intellectual and personal gifts to solve global health problems.
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An Inconvenient Book
by Glenn Beck
Price: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($23.96)
With the unique fusion of entertainment and politics that he uses on his popular syndicated radio show, Beck delivers a humorous and eye-opening account of the problems that America faces today.
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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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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash.
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Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods
Price: Audio Download ($10.99) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation.
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Anglicans and Episcopalians
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
Because of the British Empire, the Church of England turned into a world communion. Millions of English settlers and native converts created an Anglican presence in many lands.
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What Future May Come?
by Don Beck
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
What happens when the editor-in-chief of WIE mediates a conference call cum roundtable discussion between three guys—all of whom happen to be brilliant, preeminent voices in their respective fields of cosmology, cultural evolution, and organizational development—and the topic is the successful continuing evolution of the human race?
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Roots of War/Seeds of Peace
by Derrick Jensen
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Special report from an American activist who, as a gesture of peace, traveled to Baghdad, Iraq.
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Tulia
by Nate Blakeslee
Price: Audio Download ($27.96) | Audio CD ($49.98)
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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The Final Move Beyond Iraq
by Mike Evans
Price: Audio Download ($27.99) | Audio CD ($39.98)
Could we lose the war on terror? America is fighting for its life in the first war of the twenty-first century.
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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
Price: Audio Download ($19.58) | Audio CD ($35.96)
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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Waking Dragon: The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World
by Peter Navarro
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this eye-opening series of lectures, business professor and best-selling author Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications for all mankind.
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None Dare Call it Stolen
by Mark Crispin Miller
Price: Audio Download ($7.96)
Media critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller reveals the evidence of widespread corruption in the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.
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Hospital
by Julie Salamon
Price: Audio Download ($19.00) | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
In 2005 Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, best-selling author Julie Salamon spent one year tracking the progess of the center and getting to know the characters who make the hospital run.
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The West's Last Chance
by Tony Blankley
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The West, says author Tony Blankley in this shocking book, is down to its last chance.
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Creating a World Without Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Price: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD
While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
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The Devil Came on Horseback
by Brian Steidle
Price: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
This intense, vivid report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur by a former American Marine who became a military observer for the African Union is the first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan.
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What Happened
by Scott McClellan
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In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, McClellan provides unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and two hotly-contested presidential campaigns.
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Midlife
Price: Audio Download ($8.00)
Menopause, andropause – how about a sanity clause? Midlife crises may be common but they are not mandatory.
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Lost Boys
by James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Price: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio Cassette
Violence by young boys and adolescents is on the rise in America's suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. In light of recent school-based shootings...
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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! The Best of "Not My Job"
by Peter Sagal
Price: Audio CD ($22.95)
The first audio collection from NPR’s “oddly informative news quiz” spotlights the “Not My Job” segment of the show, with celebrity guests including Tom Hanks, Terry Gross, Jeopardy Grand Champion Ken Jennings, and Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
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The Soul of Capitalism
by William Greider
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($32.95) | Audio Cassette
The Soul of Capitalism examines how the greatest wealth-creation engine in the history of the world is failing most of us....
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