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Straphanger
Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Times Books
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation...
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The Race for What's Left
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources

Metropolitan Books
From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition The world is facing an...
  
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Counterstrike
The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

Times Books
Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home In the years...
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Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America

Picador
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans...
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War Is Not Over When It's Over
Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

Picador
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims:...
  
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La Seduction
How the French Play the Game of Life

Times Books
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its...
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The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

Picador
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography This is Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band...
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Washington Rules
America's Path to Permanent War
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
"Tough-minded, bracing, and intelligent . . . the country is lucky to have a fierce, smart peacemonger like Bacevich."—The New York Times Book Review Hailed...
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The Price of Motherhood
Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

Picador
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CHANGED AMERICA'S VIEW OF MOTHERHOOD In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second...
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Exiles in Eden
Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession

Henry Holt and Co.
An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"— enters...
  

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A Night to Remember

Holt Paperbacks
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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What's the Matter with Kansas?
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have...
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Homicide
A Year on the Killing Streets

Holt Paperbacks
From the creator of HBO’s The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore....
  
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Recovering From Rape

Holt Paperbacks
Practical advice on overcoming the trauma and coping with police, hospitals, and the courts - for the survivors of sexual assault and their families, lovers,...
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Class Matters

Times Books
The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of...
  
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Second Edition

Holt Paperbacks
This phenomenally successful book, that has sold nearly a half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and...
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The Absorbent Mind

Holt Paperbacks
The classic book that has inspired generations of teachers to foster each child's drive to learn.
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The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
American Empire Project

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as “brilliant and...
  
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The Complete Book of Wills, Estates & Trusts, Third Edition

Holt Paperbacks
The best legal guide to wills and estates—with more than 80,000 copies sold—now updated to cover the current asset protection options and estate...
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Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
American Empire Project

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
“It’s hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.”—The New York Times Book Review The...
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Holt Paperbacks
An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz...
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Freethinkers
A History of American Secularism

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation...
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The Short Bus
A Journey Beyond Normal

Holt Paperbacks
“What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney’s transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of...