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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $8.60
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Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Shane Claiborne
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Publisher: Zondervan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083092
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Publication Date: 2006-02-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges readers to truly live out their Christian faith.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $2.31
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Hitchens
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.32
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Publication Date: 2005-04-12
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: "Do justice, and let the skies fall." Christopher Hitchens borrows from Roman antiquity this touchstone for a career of confrontation, argument, and troublemaking. Part of the Art of Mentoring series, Letters to a Young Contrarian is a trim volume of about two dozen letters to an imaginary student of controversy. The letters are wonderfully engaging--Hitchens is an exceptional prose stylist--and from the outset they strike a self-reflective note. What Hitchens lionizes and illuminates in this book is not any particular disagreement, but a way of being perpetually at odds with the mainstream. "Humanity is very much in debt to such people," he argues. Hitchens's style is incendiary and sometimes flamboyant. He relishes the role of provocateur and fancies himself a gadfly to the drowsy American republic. One of his main strengths is his erudition, allowing him to range over vast landscapes of the humanities and politics in a single breath. But he is also sometimes glib and self-satisfied, and his penchant for referencing everything in sight can be distracting. Nonetheless, his arguments are forceful and morally important--and if the reader feels otherwise, there are few more fitting compliments to a professional dissident than dissent. --Eric de Place
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Medved
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92092
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Publication Date: 2005-12-27
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share of enemies—with his disarming wit and slashing arguments on issues of pop culture and politics.
In the candid, illuminating Right Turns, Medved chronicles the lessons and adventures that changed him from a Vietnam protest leader to an optimistic promoter of American patriotism, from secularism to religion, from adventurous single guy to doting husband and father. He skewers leftist orthodoxy, revealing why the Right is right and why his former colleagues on the Left remain hopelessly wrong on every cultural, political, and social issue.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cathy Wilkerson
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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.42092
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: “On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18 W. 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric blasting cap, ignited by mistake…”
So begins this stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously blew up and escaped from a Greenwich Village townhouse, here wrestles with the legacy of the movement, at times looking at contradictions of the movement that many others have avoided: the absence of women’s voices then and in the retelling; the incompetence and the egos; the hundreds of bombs detonated in protest which caused little loss of life but which were also ineffective in fomenting revolution. While proud of many of the accomplishments of the 1960s, years later Wilkerson examines why, in 1970, she in effect accepted the same disregard for human life practiced by the government. In searching for new paradigms for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—and finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither. Cathy Wilkerson was active in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin, survived an explosion in the basement of her parents’ townhouse that killed three Weathermen, forcing the two underground. For the past twenty years she has worked as an educator teaching teachers in the New York City schools.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.25
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Manufacturer: Autonomedia
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hakim Bey
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Publisher: Autonomedia
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.83
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Publication Date: 2003-09-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: The underground cult bestseller! Essays redefining the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults—this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. continues to worm its way into above-ground culture. Second edition, with a new introductory essay by the author and additional appendical materials.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $3.56
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Manufacturer: The Disinformation Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Russ Kick
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Publisher: The Disinformation Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Can you name five military leaders who were -transgendered? Twelve cases of involuntary human experimentation by the U.S. government? How about the four porn novels written by famous authors, 11 books left out of the Bible and over 50 side effects of NutraSweet that have been reported to the FDA? In 1977, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace published The Book of Lists, causing an immediate sensation. Not only did it lead to three direct sequels (in 1980, 1983 and 1993), it also created a new genre. Soon, shelves were lined with The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists (1978), The Book of Sports Lists (1979) and Meredith's Book of Bible Lists (1980), among many others. Using this popular, enduring format, Russ Kick's Disinformation Book of Lists delves into the murkier aspects of politics, current events, business, history, science, art and literature, sex, drugs, death and more. Despite such unusual subject matter, this book presents hard, substantiated facts with full references. Among the lists presented: Innocent People Freed from Prison
Members of the Skull & Bones Secret Society at Yale
Drugs Pulled Off the Market After They Killed Too Many People
Legal Substances that Will Get You High
Dead People Surrounding Bill Clinton
Scenes that Were Cut from Movies
Raunchy Songs that Were Never Released
Military Officers, Government Officials, Astronauts, and Airline Personnel Who Say UFOs Are Real
Words and Phrases No Longer Allowed in Textbooks
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $4.65
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bernard Lewis
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 297.822
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their foes with a series of dramatic murders of Islamic leaders, as well as of some of the Crusaders, who brought their name and fame back to Europe.Professor Lewis traces the history of this radical group, studying its teachings and its influence on Muslim thought. Particularly insightful in light of the rise of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. and in Israel, this account of the Assassins--whose name is now synonymous with politically motivated murderers--places recent events in historical perspective and sheds new light on the fanatic mind.
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Price: $22.99
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Sale: $8.44
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stuart A. Wright
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.420973
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Publication Date: 2007-06-11
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Reading Level: 254
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Description: This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The author served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team and draws on information based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. Wright contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and carried out the bombing. By examining the Patriot movement's history and subsequent reconfiguration of conflicts with the state, McVeigh's role in the bombing can be more fully understood.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.86
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Abbie Hoffman
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Edition: 1st Thunder's Mouth Press Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 2005-03-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humor, theater, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party—or "Yippies!—to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Also chronicled are the mass demonstrations he led in which over fifty thousand people attempted to levitate the Pentagon using psychic energy, and the time he threw fistfuls of dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and watched the traders scramble. With antiwar sentiment once again in a furor and an incendiary political climate not seen since the book's original printing, Abbie Hoffman's voice is more essential than ever.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $17.99
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Miller
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1981
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Publication Date: 1994-09-20
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is crucial to our understanding. James Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s and them into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen: "Most of the large questions raised by that moment of chaotic openness--political questions about the limits of freedom, and cultural questions, too, about the authority of the past and the anarchy of the new--are with us still."
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