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    • Dirty Wars
      The World is a Battlefield
    • BY JEREMY SCAHILL

    • Dirty Wars follows bestselling author Jeremy Scahill into the heart of the US War on Terror’s most dangerous battlefields as he uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the book reports from the frontlines of Scahill's high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America’s global killing machine.

    • Children of the Days
      A Calendar of Human History
    • BY EDUARDO GALEANO

    • Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories.

    • Dollarocracy
      How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
    • BY JOHN NICHOLS AND ROBERT W. McCHESNEY

      (Coming Soon)
    • Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before.

    • Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
    • BY CHRIS HEDGES and JOE SACCO
    • Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out for America's sacrifice zones, places like Camden, NJ and the coal fields of West Virginia where the market place rules and human beings are ruthlessly exploited to maximize profit. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.

    • The Noir Forties
      The American People From Victory to Cold War
    • BY RICHARD LINGEMAN
    • The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that "age of anxiety" characterized by the dissipation of victory dreams, the onset of the Red Scare, and a nascent resistance to the Cold War consensus. Lingeman traces the hopes, sentiments, collective dreams, and nightmares of the times, as reflected in films, music, political movements, and cultural attitudes.

    • And Hell Followed With Her
      Crossing to the Dark Side of the American Border
    • BY DAVID NEIWERT
    • “A scouring investigation of the unorthodox methods of the anti-immigration Minute-
      man Project… A sweeping account of some of [its] major players.” —Kirkus Reviews
      “In a masterwork reminiscent of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, David Neiwert tells the gripping story of a far-right underworld awash in criminality, racism, and violence — except that it happened here and every word is true.” —Joe Conason

    • Ajax, the Dutch, the War
      The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour
    • BY SIMON KUPER
    • Simon Kuper tells an alternative history of the Second World War and the Holocaust — using the Dutch club Ajax, a club supported by Amsterdam’s Jews — as a window to explore the role that soccer played in Europe during the conflict. "Filled with reporting that will break your heart and analysis that will change the way you watch the game."
      —Franklin Foer

    • Rebuild the Dream
    • BY VAN JONES
    • Van Jones issues a bold defense of core progressive values in the age of Obama. “Rebuild the Dream, [is] his blueprint for grassroots action to restore the economy as well as attempt to turn Obama into the kind of president [progressives] want.” —Politico
      “Van Jones [is] one of the most effective organizers and strategists on the left.” —Rick Perlstein, Rolling Stone

    • The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
      A Social Justice Hall of Fame
    • BY PETER DREIER
    • A deeply informed, colorful, and witty history of the 20th century progressive leaders and movements that changed history from one of our greatest historians. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.
      "Terrific reading" —Jonathan Kozol

    • Soccernomics
    • By Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
    • A revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller, Soccernomics, uses empirical analysis and witty, incisive commentary to change how we think about soccer. This new edition contains chapters on Spain’s 2010 World Cup win and the new era of financial fair-play rules.

    • The Invisible Arab
      The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution
    • BY MARWAN BISHARA
    • The Invisible Arab counters the myth that Western social media created the Arab Spring. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst for Al Jazeera English, shows the conditions that made the revolutions possible, and gives a roadmap for progressive democracy in the Arab world and beyond.

    • EcoMind
      Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
    • BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ
    • In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet, dismantles seven “thought traps” that belie what we now know about nature and society, and reveals through the latest scientific breakthroughs and stories of hope how we can be empowered to create the world we want.

    • Blackwater
      The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
    • By Jeremy Scahill
    • In this Polk Award-winning book, Jeremy Scahill takes us from the streets of Iraq and the hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, revealing the inner workings of Blackwater, one of the most powerful players in America's global "War on Terror."