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Global Ethic: The Declaration of the Parliament of the World's Religions

By: N/A

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Continuum: December 1993

Seller ID: 268651

ISBN: 0826406408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Presents the text of the 'Declaration' and a commentary on its evolution and significance.... The message of this book is very timely." -The Leading Edge>
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The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Templeton Press: June 2015

Seller ID: 312277

ISBN: 1599474581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Gun Control Debate : You Decide (Contemporary Issues)

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Prometheus: May 2001

Seller ID: 330499

ISBN: 1573928615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Columbine and other highly publicized shootings have kept America's century-old gun debate in the forefront of public attention.Using selections from historians, criminologists, social scientists, public health specialists, and jurists, Dr. Nisbet provides an in-depth analysis of the central issues involved in our debate over guns. By providing a set of critical-thinking questions, with examples of experts raising these very points, Nisbet invites readers to evaluate gun-control issues more deeply and thoroughly than is possible in the popular media's portrayal of the issue. Among the ...
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

By: Abraham Verghese

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: May 1995

Seller ID: 273226

ISBN: 0679752927

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an "urban problem" had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brough...
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

By: Abraham Verghese

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: May 1995

Seller ID: 281159

ISBN: 0679752927

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Assault on Reason

By: Al Gore

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: May 2007

Seller ID: 295912

ISBN: 1594201226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force sha...
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The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty

By: Alan W. Clarke, Laurelyn Whitt

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Northeastern: November 2007

Seller ID: 304830

ISBN: 1555536824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Bitter Fruit of American Justice examines two increasingly important factors in the debate over state execution, the conjunction of which may well signal an end to the death penalty in the United States. The first is external to the country. Mounting international resistance to state execution is raising the political stakes for the United States. Much of the democratic world has abolished state execution, regarding it as a grave human rights violation. Drawing on new understandings of state sovereignty, these nations are using extradition policy and existing treaty obligations to pressure...
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The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

By: Albright, Madeleine

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: March 2007

Seller ID: 339510

ISBN: 0060892587

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the...
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None Dare Call It Conspiracy

By: Allen, Gary

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Concord Books: January 1971

Seller ID: 332077

ISBN: B0091TN0BM

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None Dare Call It Conspiracy

By: Allen, Gary

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Concord Books: January 1971

Seller ID: 346445

ISBN: B0091TN0BM

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The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity

By: AndrÃ©s T. Tapia

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Publisher: Hewitt Associates: July 2009

Seller ID: 247017

ISBN: 0615289444

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

It turns out that the warm, let's-all-get-along connotations of inclusion are misleading. Achieving true inclusion is hard. Very hard. Harder than achieving awareness. Harder than achieving tolerance and sensitivity. Harder than diversity itself. In The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity Andres Tapia, Hewitt Associates' Chief Diversity Officer, reveals how in these times of unprecedented peril and opportunity, diversity's demographic tsunami is accelerating today's social, economic, and political tectonic shifts. In the book, he explores what is require...
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It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom

By: Andrew P. Napolitano

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Publisher: Thomas Nelson: October 2011

Seller ID: 312376

ISBN: 1595553509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

DOES THE GOVERNMENT EXIST TO SERVE US OR TO MASTER US?If the government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality? The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. Within the pages of "It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government Is Wrong," New York Times best-selling author Judge Andrew P. Napolitano lays out the case that the U.S. government, whose first obligation is t...
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

By: Andrew Yang

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Hachette Books: April 2019

Seller ID: 317594

ISBN: 0316414212

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Going Negative

By: Ansolabehere, Stephen,Iyengar, Shanto

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 349369

ISBN: 0684837110

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Future of North America, 2025: Outlook and Recommendations (Significant Issues Series)

By: Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies: August 2008

Seller ID: 328219

ISBN: 0892065206

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War

By: Asne Seierstad

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Publisher: Basic Books: May 2010

Seller ID: 243672

ISBN: 0465019498

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, Asne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its effects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst violence. Over the course of a decade, she traveled in secret and under the constant threat of danger.In a broken and devastated society, Seierstad lived amongst the wounded and the lost. And she lived with the orphans of Grozny, those who will shape the country's future, as...
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My Jihad: The True Story of an American Mujahid's Amazing Journey from Usama Bin Laden's Training Camps to Counterterrorism with the FBI and CIA

By: Aukai Collins

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Lyons Press: June 2002

Seller ID: 258099

ISBN: 1585745650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

He has been described as a "beefy-linebacker, All-American, blue-eyed, Irish-American mujahid holy warrior" who has led a life of faith, danger, and espionage in some of the most perilous war zones on the face of the Earth.It all started when a fellow worshiper in his San Diego mosque suggested that he go to Bosnia to stop the Serb-sponsored genocide that was taking place there. This eventually led him to Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, where he trained with the most aggressive and terrifying mujahadeen in the world. But when a commander asked him to raid a town in Kashmir ...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

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Publisher: Owl Books: July 2006

Seller ID: 304242

ISBN: 0805081240

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from "our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism"--The New York Times Book ReviewAmericans' working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by "middle-class" jobs are a thing of the past. In "Bait and Switch," Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible resume of a professional "in transit...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: June 2008

Seller ID: 331730

ISBN: 0805088385

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updatedAcclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, "Nickel and Dimed" has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for "one book" initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living wage. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America--the story of Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate--has become a...
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

By: Beck, Glenn, Balfe, Kevin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Threshold Editions: September 2009

Seller ID: 343981

ISBN: 1416595015

Condition: Used - Good

FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes. "Just go away " you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is... ...this book. Glenn Beck, author of the #1 "New York Times" bestsellers "An Inconvenient Book" and "Glenn Beck's Common Sense," has stumbled upon the secret formula to winn...
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