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Crashing the Party : How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President by Ralph Nader.
Dead Mars, Dying Earth by John E., Dr Brandenberg and Monica Rix Paxson.
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William J. Broad (Reviews ) .
Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo H. Galeano (Reviews ) .
The Wizards of Langley : Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology by Jeffrey T. Richelson (Reviews ) .
The Future in Plain Sight : Nine Clues to the Coming Instability by Eugene Linden.
The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to
Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert Kaplan.
Day of Deceit : The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett.
Empire Wilderness : Travels into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan.
Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century by Simson Garfinkel.
Plutonium Files : America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome.
American Foundations : An Investigative History by Mark Dowie (Reviews ) .
The Battle in Seattle : The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations by Janet Thomas (Reviews ) .
The Botany of Desire : A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Reviews ) .
Muddling Through : Pursuing Science and Truths in the Twenty-First Century by Herbert J. Bernstein, Mike Fortun (Reviews ) .
The Ingenuity Gap : How Will We Solve the Problems of the Future by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon.
(Reviews ) .
Resource Wars : The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael T. Klare.
(Reviews ) .
Defending Mother Earth : Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice by Jace Weaver (Editor), Russell Means.
The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs.
Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett (Reviews ) .
Reclaiming the Environmental Debate : The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture by Richard Hofrichter (Editor).
Pandora's Poison : Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton.
The Land That Could Be : Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Shutkin, David Brower (foreword).
Cyberselfish : A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech by Paulina Borsook.
If You Poison Us : Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt.
Taken for a Ride : Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Air Pollution by Jack Doyle.
Freedom of Information and the Right to Know : The Origins and Applications of the Freedom of Information Act by Herbert N. Foerstel.
Illness and the Environment : A Reader in Contested Medicine by Steve Kroll-Smith, Valerie J. Gunter (Editors).
From Modernization to Globalization : Perspectives on Development and Social Change by J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Hite (Editors).
Democracy at Risk by Jeff Gates.
Do Americans Shop Too Much? by Juliet Shor (editor), Ralph Nader (introduction).
Air Pollution and Health by S. T. Holgate, Jonathan M. Samet, Robert L. Maynard, Hillel S. Koren (Editors).
The Piracy of America : Profiteering in the Public Domain by Judith Scherff (editor).
Secrets and Lies : The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign by Nicky Hager, Bob Burton.
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region : The Politics of Planning by Mark Luccarelli.
A Plague of Frogs : The Horrifying True Story by William Souder.
Cloak of Green : The Links Between Key Environmental Groups, Government, & Big Business by Elaine Dewar.
Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd.
Losing Ground : American Environmentalism at the Close of the
Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie.
The War Against the Greens : The 'Wise-Use' Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence by David Helvarg.
No Safe Place : Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action by Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen (Contributor).
Green Backlash : Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement by Andrew Rowell.
Global Spin : The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by Sharon Beder.
The Buying of the Congress : How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Charles Lewis.
Local Environmental Struggles : Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production by Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg, Adam S. Weinberg.
Oil in Troubled Waters : Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling by William R. Freudenburg.
A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys by James Ridgeway, Jeffrey St. Clair.
Understanding Globalization : The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change by Robert K. Schaeffer (Editor).
Corporate Predators : The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy by Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
On the Rez by Ian Frazier.
The Nature of Economies (Modern Library) by Jane Jacobs.
Canaries on the Rim : Living Downwind in the West by Chip Ward.
A Little Matter of Genocide : Holocaust and Denial in the Americas,
1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill.
Genetically Engineered Food : Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet by Martin Teitel, Kimberly A. Wilson.
Beyond Evolution : The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth, and Humans by Michael W. Fox.
Workin' on the Chain Gang : Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History by Walter Mosley.
Owning the Future : Staking Claims on the Knowledge Frontier by Seth Shulman.
Protecting Public Health & the Environment : Implementing the
Precautionary Principle by Carolyn Raffensperger, Joel Tickner (Editors).
Making a Real Killing : Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West by Len Ackland.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy : Communication Politics in Dubious
Times by Robert W. McChesney.
A Hazardous Inquiry : The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal by Allan Mazur.
The Politics of Cancer Revisited by Samuel S. Epstein.
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century : How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman.
The Buying of the President 2000 by Charles Lewis.
The Control Revolution : How The Internet is Putting Individuals in
Charge and Changing the World We Know by Andrew L. Shapiro.
The Culture of Fear : Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner.
Corporation Nation by Charles Derber.
Earth Odyssey : Around the World in Search of Our Environmental
Future by Mark Hertsgaard.
E-Topia : Urban Life, Jim - But Not As We Know It by William J. Mitchell.
Jefferson's Children : Education and the Promise of American Culture by Leon Botstein.
Gaviotas : A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman.
Jihad vs. McWorld : How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World by Benjamin R. Barber, Andrea Schulz (Editors).
Killing Hope : U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum.
Death in the Air : Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare
by Leonard Horowitz.
(Reviews ) .
Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan.
Divided Planet : The Ecology of Rich and Poor by Tom Athanasiou.
Fateful Harvest : The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson.
(Reviews ) .
Health Wars : Why Is Our Technology Killing Us? by Phillip Day (Reviews ) .
Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (Reviews ) .
When Corporations Rule the World , Second Edition (5 new chapters) by David C. Korten (Reviews ) .
Cancer : Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day (Reviews ) .
The Coming Storm : Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future by Bob Reiss (Reviews ) .
One Market Under God : Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy by Thomas Frank.
The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
A Reasonable Life : Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence by Ferenc Mate.
Spirit Matters by Michael Lerner.
Making Better Environmental Decisions : An Alternative to Risk Assessment by Mary O'Brien.
Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks.
All Our Relations : Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke
(Reviews ) .
Toxic Terror : Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons by Jonathan B. Tucker (Editor).
Ecocide of Native America : Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples by Donald A. Grinde, Howard Zinn (foreword), Bruce Elliott Johansen.
The Lugano Report : On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century by Susan George.
A Culture of Secrecy : The Government Versus the People's Right to Know by Athan G. Theoharis (Editor).
The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology by Michael Redclift (Editor).
Sprawl City : Race, Politics, & Planning in Atlanta by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres (Editors).
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid.
The End of the World As We Know It : Social Science for the Twenty-first Century by Immanuel Wallerstein.
Ecopopulism : Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice by Andrew Szasz.
An Invitation to Environmental Sociology by Michael Mayerfeld Bell.
Who Owns the Sun? : People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy by Daniel M. Berman, John T. O'Connor.
Environment and Society : The Enduring Conflict by Allan Schnaiberg, Kenneth Alan Gould.
Asthma : Causes and Mechanisms of an Epidemic Inflammatory Disease (Indoor Air Research Series) by Thomas Platts-Mills (Editor).
Environmental Crime : Enforcement, Policy, and Social Responsibility by Mary Clifford (Editor).
Environmental Justice : Issues, Policies, and Solutions by Bunyan Bryant (Editor).
Greenwash : The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism by Jed Greer, K. Bruno.
Dumping in Dixie : Race, Class, and Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard.
Earth for Sale : Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate
Greenwash by Brian Tokar.
No Contest : Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America by Ralph Nader, Wesley J. Smith.
The Ends of the Earth : Perspectives on Modern Environmental History by Donald Worster (Editor).
The Corporate Planet : Ecology and Politics in the Age of
Globalization by Joshua Karliner.
World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck.
Toxic Deception : How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science,
Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle.
Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences by David Harvey.
Living Downstream : An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the
Environment by Sandra Steingraber.
Our Children's Toxic Legacy : How Science and Law Fail to Protect
Us from Pesticides by John Wargo.
Our Stolen Future : Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence,
and Survival?-A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn et al.
Dying from Dioxin : A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and
Rebuilding Democracy by Lois Marie Gibbs.
The State of Native America : Genocide, Colonization, and
Resistance by M. Annette Jaimes (Editor).
Stolen Harvest : The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva.
Virus Within : The Coming Epidemic by Nicholas Regush.
The New Resource Wars : Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations by Al Gedicks.
Whose Trade Organization? : Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy by Michelle Sforza, Lori Wallach.
Natural Capitalism :
Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins.
Generations at Risk : Reproductive Health and the Environment by Ted Schettler (Editor).
The Knowledge Factory : Learning and the Emergence of the American Corporate University by Stanley Aronowitz.
Making a Killing : HMOs and the Threat to Your Health by Jamie Court, Francis Smith.
If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates : More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower by Jim Hightower.
Panic Rules! : Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy by Robin Hahnel.
The WTO : Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization by Lori Wallach, Michelle Sforza, Michele Sforza, Ralph Nader (Introduction).
No Safe Place : Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action by Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen (Contributor).
Hard Green : Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists by Peter Huber.
State of the World 2000 by Lester Brown (WorldWatch Institute).
Love Canal : The Story Continues by Lois Marie Gibbs.
Should We Risk It? : Exploring Environmental, Health, and
Technological Problem Solving by Daniel M. Kammen, David M. Hassenzahl.
The Dying of the Trees : The Pandemic in America's Forests by Charles E. Little.
The Breast Cancer Prevention Program by Samuel S. Epstein, Md.
Chemical Exposures : Low Levels and High Stakes by Claudia S. Miller, Nicholas Askounes Ashford.
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and
Dead Armadillos by Jim Hightower.
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