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Blood of the Earth

The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources

By Dilip Hiro


This vivid history of oil--and the way it revolutionized civilian life, war, and world politics--sets the stage for the coming oil wars of the 21st Century.

In a recent edition of Yale Global Online, Dilip Hiro explains why playing the oil card only goes so far in international diplomacy. Read it here.
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The Ten Minute Activist

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective


What if making a difference only required ten minutes of our time every day?

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Blackout

How the Electric Industry Exploits America

By Gordon L. Weil


Ever since Thomas Edison created the first electrical utility, the energy industry has cheated American customers with impunity. Blackout delves into the history of this increasingly monopolized--and corrupt--industry.

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Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

By Michele Simon


This book exposes the hypocrisy of major food companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds, that are staging massive PR campaigns to look like they are "part of the solution" while they simultaneously lobby against sound nutrition policies.

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Unsustainable

How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity

By Eamonn Fingleton


When financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton anticipated the meltdown of the New Economy in the late 1990s, his predictions were dismissed by mainstream economic writers as "far-fetched." Now, with the New Economy in ruins and America mired in recession, Fingleton's contrarian take on mainstream ecomonic thinking seems ever more prescient.

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Halliburton's Army

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee


From Halliburton's vital mission as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without it there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape among its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton's Army is a devastating exposé of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism. In shocking detail it shows how Halliburton and its former subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) really do business in Iraq, and around the world.

Watch Pratap Chatterjee discuss Halliburton's Army on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

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Belching Out the Devil

Global Adventures with Coca-Cola

By Mark Thomas


Mark Thomas—a legendarily seditious comedian and human rights activist—is a recovering Coca-Cola addict, a self-described "middle-aged fat dad with asthma" who decides to trek around the globe investigating the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't mention: child laborers in sugar cane fields of El Salvador, Indian workers exposed to toxic chemicals, Columbian labor union leaders in Coke bottling plants falsely accused of terrorism and jailed alongside the paramilitaries who want to kill them. At once hilarious and disturbing, Thomas builds a very detailed and damning case against the world's most ubiquitous drink.
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Reckoning at Eagle Creek

The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

By Jeff Biggers


For more information on the book tour, please click here. Watch a multimedia theater performance hosted by The Nation Institute in June here.

Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers delivers a deeply personal portrait of the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation's dirty energy policy, uncovering a century of regulatory negligence and vividly describing the epic mining wars for union recognition and workplace safety and the devastating consequences of industrial strip-mining. Along the way, Biggers exposes the fallacy that lies at the heart of the Obama administration's controversial pursuit of "clean coal."

Watch Jeff Biggers on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.

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The Battle for Gotham

New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

By Roberta Brandes Gratz


How might New York and other urban centers emerge from the current economic crisis? Roberta Brandes Gratz revisits the New York of the 1960s and 1970s—particularly the clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—to tell a deeply revisionist story of how New York City emerged from crisis and how that regeneration can inform our response to the current crisis.

The week of May 10, Roberta Brandes Gratz answered questions from readers about Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, their legacies, and what the future holds for urban planning in New York City. Read her answers on The New York Times' City Room blog here.

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Halliburton's Army (paperback)

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee


From Halliburton's mission as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without it there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up sexual abuse among its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton's Army is a devastating exposé of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.

"A sordid tale of politics and profiteering... A report that deserves many readers, about matters that deserve many indictments."
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Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Border

undef 0 | Marfa, Texas

See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.

September 9 - October 22
Robert Scheer: Author Tour
(West Coast, United States)
Please join Nation Books author Robert Scheer as he travels to Washington, California and Oregon on an author tour to discuss his latest book, The Great American Stickup. MORE

September 16 | 5:30 pm
Investigating Impunity After Katrina
(New York University, New York City)
Please join us for "Investigating Impunity After Katrina," the launch event for The Backstory, a new monthly series of public conversations with investigative reporters and nonfiction authors affiliated with The Nation Institute. Investigative Fund reporter A.C. Thompson will discuss his award-winning reporting in New Orleans. (See Katrina's Hidden Race War and Body of Evidence, published in The Nation in January 2009.) MORE

September 18 | 1 pm
Author Talk: Wayne Karlin
(Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.)
Please join Nation Books author Wayne Karlin as he discusses his book, Wandering Souls: Journeys With The Dead And The Living In Viet Nam at Washington, D.C.'s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on September 18 at 1 p.m. MORE

September 24 - October 5
Fatima Bhutto: Author Tour
(Across the United States)
Please join Fatima Bhutto as she travels from New York to Massachusetts, Oregon and California on an author tour to discuss her new memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword. MORE

October 5 | 7 pm
Herding Donkeys: Howard Dean and Ari Berman on the Future of the Democratic Party
(92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York City)
Nation Institute Fellow Ari Berman talks about his new book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, with former Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean. MORE

October 23 - January 16
Eugene Richards: Photo Exhibit
(Exhibition around the world)
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer is the winner of the 2010 World Press Photo of the Year contest. Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour. The exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam as part of the award ceremony in April and can be seen at venues around the globe until the next year. The tour program takes in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and is still expanding. MORE