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The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism...
Kabuki Democracy
The System vs. Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In this “agenda-setting” polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama’s many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against...
Go Figure
Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Go Figure: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know brings together for the first time the very best explainers and charts, written and created by top journalists to help us understand such brain-bending conundrums as why almost half the population of Korea has one of two surnames, how bitcoin mining...
The Quotable Atheist
Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense...
Tragedy in Crimson
How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet’s slowly vanishing...
by Van Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government – and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House.
Jones...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The rampant inequality that exists between the political and corporate elites and the struggling masses; the destruction wreaked upon our environment by faceless, careless corporations; the steady stripping away of our civil liberties and...
Radical
A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From Left to Right, one man has influenced them all: Saul Alinsky. Radical is a personal portrait of this controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli.
The tactics and strategy of Alinsky, who died in 1972, have been studied by people as...
Ajax, the Dutch, the War
The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose...
Bring the Noise
The Jürgen Klopp Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Jürgen Klopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 05, whom he steered to the Bundesliga for the first time in forty-one years. In 2008, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he achieved back-to-back league titles and took the club to the UEFA Champions...
My Turn
A Life of Total Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The autobiography of Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff, whose remarkable life and impeccable style have influenced star players and clubs for decades
Johan Cruyff embodied a footballing philosophy that now dominates coaching and playing styles in all the leading club sides around the world....
Soccer Men
Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In his national bestseller, Soccernomics, Simon Kuper pioneered a new way of looking at soccer, the world's most popular game, through his witty and meticulous use of data. In Soccer Men, Kuper explores the heart and soul of the sport by getting up close and personal with soccer's greatest players...
Soccer Against the Enemy
How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same...
Das Reboot
How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A beautiful story, expertly told.” -Per Mertesacker, Arsenal defender and member of the German national team, winners of the 2014 World Cup
Estádio do Maracanã, July 13, 2014, the last ten minutes of extra time in the World Cup Final: German forward Mario Götze jumps to meet a floated...