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In Our Control :
The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

Laura Eldridge

 

 

SUN RA
Interviews & Essays

Editor: John Sinclair

 

Seeds of Change:
The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group

by John Atlas

 

Colorblind Ambition: The Rise of Post Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

by Tim Wise

 

Hanoi Jane
War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal

By Jerry Lembcke

 

 

Losing Our Cool:
Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World

by Stan Cox

 

 

When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency

by Matthew Stein

 

 

 

Illusions Of Security: Global Surveillance And Democracy In The Post-9/11 World

by Maureen Webb

 

WHEN CHICKEN SOUP ISN'T ENOUGH
Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
Suzanne Gordon (Editor)

 

Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education

by Nancy Folbre

 

 

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
Darfur--Intervention and the USA

by Steven Fake and Kevin Funk

 

 

The Death and Life of American Journalism:
The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again

 

 

 

Guitars, Bars, and Motown Superstars

by Dennis Coffey

 

Dying Empire:
U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance

By Francis Shor

 

 

Creative Community Organizing:
A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice

by Si Kahn

 

 

COMMON GROUND IN A LIQUID CITY:
ESSAYS IN DEFENSE OF AN URBAN FUTURE

by Matt Hern

 

The Value of Nothing:
How to reshape market society and redefine democracy
by Raj Patel

 

At the Altar of the Bottom Line
The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century

by Tom Juravich

 

Breaking the Sound Barrier

By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan
Foreword by Bill Moyers

 

The Battle of the Story of the "Battle of Seattle"

by  David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit

 

Beyond the Tipping Point
by Linda Nordquist

 

 

Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice

by Eric Holt-Giménez

 

 

Teaching What Really Happened:
How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

by James Loewen

 

The Will to Resist:
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Dahr Jamail

 

The Shadows of Youth:
The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation

By Andrew B. Lewis

 

Aqua Shock:
The Water Crisis in America
by Susan J. Marks

 

 

2012: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History

By John Major Jenkins
 

 

J. Edgar Hoover:
A Graphic Biography

by Rick Geary

 

Searching for Whitopia:
An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

By Rich Benjamin

 

 

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin

 

 

The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School
by Linda Nathan

 The Looting of America:
How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity--and What We Can Do About It,
by Les Leopold

 

 

I Have America Surrounded - The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs

Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
by Mark Rudd

Invisible History:
Afghanistan's Untold Story
by Paul Fitzgerald &
Elizabeth Gould

 

 

The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction
by Dirk Hanson

 

 

The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors
by Hal Niedzviecki

A Young People's History of the United States:
Vol. 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War
by Howard Zinn
With Rebecca Stefoff

 

The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome:
Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream

 

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by Mark Bauerlein

 

Insomniac
by Gayle Greene

 

 

Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic reflections of the class war at home
by Steve Early

 

Why I Am Not a Scientist:
Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
by Jonathan Marks

 

 

Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
by Larry Tye

 

Breadline USA:
The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It

By Sasha Abramsky

 

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years    
by David Ward   

 

 

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto

 

The Sun Climbs Slow:
The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice
by Erna Paris

 

 

Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
From Addams to Zinn, a century of voices speaking out on war, peace, human rights, labor, and democracy

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
by Matthew Stein

 

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
by Jerry Mander

 

The Superferry Chronicles:
Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism, and the Desecration of the Earth
by Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander

 

Longing and Belonging:
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
by Allison J. Pugh

Mexico Unconquered:
Chronicles of Power and Revolt
by John Gibler

 

 

 

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni

Work Hard; Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
by Jay Mathews

 

 

 

Daddy Plays Old-Time New Orleans Jazz: Six Generations in the Music Business|
by Larry Gabriel

 

The War Comes Home:
Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
by Aaron Glantz

 

 

Plunder and Blunder:
The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy
By Dean Baker
Foreword by Thomas Frank
 

Three Cups of Tea
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

 

 

 

 

Dateline Havana:
The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba
by Reese Erlich

 

American Blacklist: The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
by Robert Justin Goldstein

 

SHOOT AN IRAQI
Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
by Wafaa Bilal
 

Guantánamo:
A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution
by Jana K. Lipman

Legacy of Secrecy
The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
LAMAR WALDRON & THOM HARTMANN

 

Obama's Challenge:
America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency

by Robert Kuttner

Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided

by Ronald Aronson

Those Who Dared
Five Visionaries Who Changed American Education

Carl Glickman, Editor

Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back
by Lew Daly

The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It
by Antonia Juhasz

 

 

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
by Fred Pearce

Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
by Gary Paul Nabhan

 

SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
by Harvey Wasserman

 Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor
by Kath Weston

 

 

A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
by Dave Zirin

Dying To Live
A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
by Judy Polumbaum

Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink
by Tyler Colman

 

Rising Powers; Shrinking Planet: The Geopolitics of Energy
by Michael Klare

 

2012: THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL
by Daniel Pinchbeck

 

 

Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn

 

The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
by Terry K. Aladjem

 

1858 by Bruce Chadwick

 

 

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi

 

Dreaming Up America
by Russell Banks

Walking Your Blues Away:
How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being
by Thom Hartmann

 

 

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
by Mark Bauerlein

The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave Speth

Sick Planet:   
Corporate Food and Medicine   
by Stan Cox   

 

 

 

Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
by Suzanne Gordon

 

Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way
Lessons from an Urban Classroom
by Brian D. Schultz

 

 

 

Deadly Election: A Novel  
By Betsy Hartmann

 

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 Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad,
by Marnia Lazreg

 

 

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
by Nancy Polikoff

 

 

Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed
by Jamey Lionette

 

 

Conservatize Me:
A Lifelong Lefties Attempt to Love God, Guns, Reagan, and Toby Keith
by John Moe

 

The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
by Susan Allport,

 

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
by Chalmers Johnson

 

 

J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
by Rick Geary

 

 

 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. MILITARISM
by Ismael Hossein-zadeh

 

 

Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives
by Edwin Black

Dark Side of Buffoon
by Mark Lysgaard

 

The Beatles Second Album
by Dave Marsh

OVERCOMING ZIONISM

Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

by Joel Kovel

 

CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
By Robert Matheu & Brian J. Bowe

 

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
by Derrick Jensen

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Shooting War:
A graphic novel
by Anthony Lappe,Dan Goldman

 

Flying Close to the Sun:
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
by Cathy Wilkerson

 

The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein

 

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail

 

Letters from Fort Lewis Brig
A Matter of Conscience
by Sergeant Kevin Benderman with Monica Benderman

Getting Off:
Pornography and the end of Masculinity
by Robert Jensen

Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
by Robert H. Frank 

Targeting Iran
By David Barsamian
Interviews with Noam Chomsky,
Ervand Abrahamian & Nahid Mozaffari
 

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by Frances Moore Lappe

Made Love; Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
by Norman Solomon

 

Less Safe, Less Free:
Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
by David Cole and Jules Lobel

The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
by Katherine S. Newman &
Victor Tan Chen

HOW THE PRO-CHOICE MOVEMENT SAVED AMERICA
by Cristina Page

 

The Iran Agenda:
The Real Story of U.S. Policy
and The Middle East Crisis
By Reese Erlich

 

by Jonathon Mooney The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal,

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
by Carolyn Nordstrom

 

 

 

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant

From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act; A History of the Fight for Free Speech
by Christopher M. Finan

 

Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Guy Dauncey

 

 

Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
by Scott Ritter

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America
by Felicia Kornbluh

 

 

DVD:
"In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts"
Highly Recommended

 

Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports
by Dave Zirin

 

 

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War
by Gerald Horne

 

The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
by Gerald Horn

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WHO’S REALLY RUNNING AMERICA
by Melissa Rossi

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
by Dale McGowan

 

 

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food & Farm Bill
by Daniel Imhoff

 

 

American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
by Sasha Abramsky

 

Guitar Army: Rock and Revolution with The MC5 and the White Panther Party by John Sinclair

Unchecked & Unbalanced:
Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
by Frederick A.O. Schwarz

Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets & Strange Tales of a White House GONE WILD
by Greg Palast

 

Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories
by Peter Philips & Project Censored

Empire & the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

by Joseph Gerson

 

Impeach the President:
The Case Against Bush & Cheney
by Dennis Loo & Peter Philips

 

 

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis & the People Who Pay the Price
by Jonathon Cohn

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
by Deepa Fernandes

 

War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

 

Respect: Women & Popular Music

 

Just Call Me Mike:
A Journey to Actor & Activist
by Mike Farrell

I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

 

 

The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and what it means for Americans

The Coming China Wars: Where They will be Fought and How They Can be Won

 

 

House of Ill Repute
William Rivers Pitt

One Country
Ali Abunimah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Progressive's Handbook:
Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now

 

 

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and The Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

 

Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible:
Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006

 

 

 

 

Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder

 

The Woman I Left Behind
by Kim Jensen

 

 

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved

David Suzuki: The Autobiography

I Have America Surrounded:
The Life of Timothy Leary

We Know You Are Watching

 

 

 

New Woodward Book Details Multiple Bush Cover-Ups Over Iraq
Some notable revelations
Key highlights:
Bush is covering up the extent of violence against U.S. troops in Iraq…
Iraq violence will worsen in 2007…
Bush will not support withdrawing from Iraq under any circumstances…
Henry Kissinger, responsible for Vietnam and Chile, regularly advises Bush and Cheney…
How Rumsfeld Blew It [excerpt]

Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy

 

 

Unrepentant Whore
Scarlot Harlot

Rum
Ian Williams

 

 

Screwed
by Thom Hartmann

With All Our Strength
Anne Brodsky

 

 

 

 

Final Victim of the Blacklist:
John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten

 

 

Flashback: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, & the Lesson of War

Trust
The Novel

 

 

 

 

 

 

King George's Counterfactual History
by Fran Shor
Also, check out his new book to right

Peter's interview with Fran Shor

Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein

 

Gay Marriage:
For Better or For Worse

D.B. by
Elwood Reid
 

 

 

 

Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

 

Primal Tears

 

            Huey: Spirit of the Panther

 

Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball

 

 

 

The Venezuelan Revolution:
100 Questions and 100 Answers

 

 

 

 JFK Assassination Blockbuster
Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartman, authors,
Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK
 

 

The Battle of Venezuela

 

 

"Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing," by Norm Stamper

 

 

Beyond Glory: The Louis vs. Schemeling Fight & the World on the Brink

Sundown Towns

War Made Easy by frequent guest on the Peter Werbe show by Norman Solomon
Highly recommended.

Norman's site

"Wild Fermentation"
Everything from beer to kim chi

 

 

 

 

 

Love & War in Afghanistan

Class Matters

Graphic novels by Peter Kuper

 

 

 

A vibrant history in graphic art of the “Wobblies,” published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.

On

                  
The Crisis
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

 

 

 

 

 

Top Censored Stories of 2004

             Gasp!

         The Great Divide:    
Retro  vs. Metro America     
 

 

         
Iraq War: The Truth

Now in Paperback: DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY, by Michael Moore, but check your indy store first.

        

Introduction by Peter Werbe

LIES: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
           by Al Franken



 

 

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