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Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

by Glenn Beck

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

It is the only time this phrase appears...

Science & Governance - Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously

by Various

“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted...

Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

by Jeffrey A. Miron

A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition’s effects on drug use have been modest...

The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting: Dark Deeds & Derring-Do from 1950 to Today

by Abner Smith, Keith Rosson & Joe Biel

A stirring work that offers a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and, at times, comical disorganization behind some of the CIA’s most controversial secret operations, this book collects...

Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?: The Munk Debate on Iran

by Amos Yadlin, Charles Krauthammer & Rudyard Griffiths

In this edition of the Munk Debates, four of the world’s leading thinkers square off to debate one of the most important geopolitical issues of the time: are Iran’s nuclear ambitions a global threat?

The...

Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz

by Russell Maroon Shoatz, Quincy Saul & Fred Ho

During a lengthy incarceration spent mostly in solitary confinement, Russell Maroon Shoatz has developed into a prolific writer and powerful voice for the disenfranchised. This first published collection of...

The Canadian Constitution

by Adam Dodek

This first-ever primer on Canada's Constitution contains the complete text of the Constitution and many useful tools to help readers understand how the chief body of law in the land works, including how the...

Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance

by Osacar Lopez Rivera, Luis Nieves Falcon & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The life story of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and leader Oscar López Rivera, outlined in this book, is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. In 1981, Oscar was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other...

REAGAN: What Was He Really Like? Vol. 2

by Curtis Patrick

These stories, revelations & anecdotes were told by the boys & girls, men & women, 49 of them, who started out in the trenches; some before Reagan ever decided to run for political office. They tell the stories...

Telling It Straight

by Marina Mahathir

An outspoken commentator on Malaysia's social and political affairs, Marina Mahathir takes on the issues, ideas and institutions of the day in her latest book, Telling it Straight. She highlights unpalatable...

In Liberal Doses

by Marina Mahathir

Marina Mahathir is one of Malaysia's most fascinating voices: compassionate, outspoken, liberated and unabashedly liberal, usually generous, sometimes wicked, never parochial and always proudly Malaysian. Marina's...

Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time: The Story of Krousar Thmey, A New Family

by Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon & David Rorke

After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.  Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits...

The Great Debasement: The 100-Year Dying of the Dollar and How to Get America's Money Back

by Craig R. Smith & Lowell Ponte

After 100 years of deliberate debasement, the U.S. Dollar is dying. Our politicians have deceptively siphoned off so much of its value that a 2012 dollar has only two pennies of the purchasing power of a 1913...

Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change

by Staughton Lynd

To better understand the impact of social movements in recent years, this analysis distinguishes strategies of social change into two parts: organizing, which is characteristic of the 1960s movement in the United...

Lawful Abuse: How the Century of the Child became the Century of the Corporation

by Robert Flynn

A powerful indictment of America’s abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of corporations, this account exposes the child labor, indentured servitude, and child slavery that are...

The Security Agencies of the United States: How the CIA, FBI, NSA, and Homeland Security Keep Us Safe

by Tom Streissguth

Read about America's Security Agencies and how they keep us safe.

Shadows: Inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch

by Alan Barker

In the early hours of 30 April 2003, twelve armed and uniformed officers accompanied by four plain-clothes detectives burst into Alan Barker's house. They stayed for hours, turning over rooms, seizing documents,...

Message to the Movement

by Mumia Abu-Jamal & Alice Walker

Radical black journalist gives organizing advice, political analysis and encouragement to activists from his cell on Death Row

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

by Pussy Riot

Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world.

Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates

by Paul Chandler, Rachel Chandler & Sarah Edworthy

On October 23, 2009, Somali pirates kidnapped Paul and Rachel Chandler from their sailing boat, the Lynn Rival, in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. In this remarkable memoir, the Chandlers...