Or Books: 109 books
by Gordon Van Gelder,Editor
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Forty years ago Walt Kellys comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: We have met the enemy and he is us. Now as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction and certain transformation of the ecosphere has been brought...
by Miles Klee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Its spring in Ivyland . . .Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny: something only a few notable contemporaries such as Jeff Vandermeer and Michael Chabon have been able to do. Post-urban New Jersey is instantly...
by Writers for the 99%
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
In the early hours of Tuesday November 15th the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen and medical center, and arresting hundreds. Already an extraordinary instant history of Occupy Wall Street from its inception...
How to Read Donald Duck
Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“ A literary grandmaster.” —Time
First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third edition was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the imperialist, capitalist ideology at work in our most...
Homeland Security Ate My Speech
Messages from the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Ariel Dorfman is one of our most celebrated literary writers, best known for his play Death and the Maiden.
Timely intervention from a prominent Latino cultural figure
by Larry Siems
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 government documents relating to abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces during the war on terror, brought to light by Freedom of Information Act litigation. As the lead author of the ACLUs report on these documents, Larry...
The Spread Mind
Why Consciousness and the World Are One
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? Who are we? Is a person a body, a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but brains encased in bodies?
As neuroscientists...
The Gospel of Self
How Pat Robertson Stole the Soul of the GOP
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The inside story of how, using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party―and moved the party itself to the right.
How did Evangelical Christians become the American right wing’s attack troops?
Televangelist Pat Robertson...
Moment of Truth
Tackling Israel-Palestine's Toughest Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A half-century into the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Israel’s Occupation at Fifty brings together eminent political leaders, scholars, and activists for a wide-ranging, at times contentious, and remarkably fruitful discussion of the region’s fate.
A simple observation that ought...
by Jeanne Thorton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Jeanne Thornton’s debut novel is a love story unlike any other, featuring Julie Thatch, a tough-as-nails, chainsmoking, wise-cracking 17-year-old Texan. Her idol, her older sister, jogs headlong into the lights of an approaching car, and dies. And Julie falls in love with a girl who both is and...
Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement
A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Authors are highly promotable and will visit US to coincide with publication
Authors have already delivered a TEDx talk about the book
The Guardian and Huffington Post have already featured pieces about the research undertaken for this book.
Trump U
The Inside Story of Trump University
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The first insider account straight from Trump University, by one of its principal instructors.
While the President of the United States seems to be able to shock with each new tweet, and no depth seems too low for him to sink to, we've yet to hear from someone who was at the heart of one of...
It Runs in the Family
On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Parenting is hard. So is being a peacemaker in a violent world. It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence, while considering...
Autopilot
The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
"A tour de force of an academic field that doesn't really exist just yet the science of being idle. Andrew Smart synthesizes a whole range of cutting-edge ideas in neuroscience, dynamic systems theory, psychology, literature, pop culture, and philosophy, and gives us a hugely entertaining read about...