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by Eric Schlosser  
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Robert Baer  Publisher Comments In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA's efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America's dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism....(read more) Your price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov Publisher Comments "Durant's experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told." -from the introduction by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Publisher Comments Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Al Franken Publisher Comments Al Franken, one of our "savviest satirists" (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and even "treason." He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus... (read more) Your Price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bill Clinton
Publisher Comments President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Richard Engel Publisher Comments On the ground in Baghdad before, during and after the war.... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Arianna Huffington Publisher Comments As America's leaders fight pre-emptive wars abroad and ordinary Americans fight to keep their heads above water here at home, Arianna Huffington offers a no-holds-barred account of where we stand and a clear and remarkable vision of where we should be... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jim Mann Publisher Comments In the tradition of The Wise Men, the first group portrait of the inner circle of George W. Bush's team — Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Armitage, Rice, and Wolfowitz. When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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Tuesday July 8, 2008
by William Greider Publisher Comments This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates -- and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Benjamin Barber Publisher Comments The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrong — and how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Marita Golden Publisher Comments In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex. To be sure... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney... (read more) Your Price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick Though Paul Krugman has been sounding the alarm twice a week in his New York Times column, he is no alarmst. That such a distinguished economist has become so distressed about current policies should concern citizens of all political persuasions. That he... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Al Franken Publisher Comments Al Franken, or Dr. Al Franken as he prefers to be called, has written the first truly indispensable book of the new millennium. Filled with wisdom, observations, and practical tips you can put to work right away, Oh, the Things I Know! is a cradle-to... (read more) Your Price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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