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“Activist extraordinaire Medea Benjamin has documented how the U.S. government’s use of drones to murder hundreds of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen has increased the danger to our national security. Benjamin’s Drone Warfare is the first book that reveals the vocal international citizen opposition that challenges the legality and morality of America’s extrajudicial execution drones before they kill here at home.” —Ann Wright, U.S. Army colonel (ret.) and former deputy chief of mission for U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere

Cruel
Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation
Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals so sacrificed and the workers involved in their violent destruction. More |
Not Working
People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy
A book that takes the pulse of the victims of today’s financial crisis and delivers a prognosis combining an extraordinary mix of pathos, anger, solidarity and humor. More |
Beautiful Trouble
A Toolbox for Revolution
Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. More |
The Passion of Bradley Manning
The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History
"The mistreatment, trial, and fate of Private Bradley Manning will undoubtedly read like an obituary on the Obama years. His case is a crucial one. Essayist and lawyer Chase Madar turned his sharp eye on it early. His will be the single must-read book on the case." —Tom Engelhardt More |
Ivyland
A Novel
Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. More |
Rare Earth
A Novel
A washed-up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic Communist spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China. More |
Occupying Wall Street
The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America
"An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain." —Jonathan Lethem, More |
The Torture Report
What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program
“A chilling account of the use and justification of torture by the Bush Administration, made the more powerful by its dispassionate, forensic language.” —Salman Rushdie, More |
Alive Inside the Wreck
A Biography of Nathanael West
“Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker, More |
Who Killed Che?
How the CIA Got Away With Murder
With an Introduction by Ricardo Alarcón, President of the Cuban National Assembly, More |
The Global Warming Reader
“…Here’s what isn’t happening: an outpouring of political outrage forcing leaders around the globe to wean our world off the fossil fuels that cause this heating. In some sense, this anthology is an attempt to deal with that paradox.” —from the introduction, More |
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This Time We Went Too Far
Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
Now in an expanded and revised paperback, More |
THE RUDE PUNDIT'S ALMANACK
“A tornado of a writer….a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson.” —Margo Jefferson, The New York Times, More |
TWEETS FROM TAHRIR
Egypt’s revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it
“Without the new media the Egyptian Revolution could not have happened in the way that it did. The causes of the revolution were many; deep-rooted and long seated. The turning moment had come – but it was the instant and wide-spread nature of the new media that made it possible to recognise the moment and to push it into such an effective manifestation.” |
WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY
“A report from the trenches where a wide array of small-d democracy and transparency activists are hard at work…using new tools and methods to open up previously closed and powerful institutions and make them more accountable.” —from the author’s introduction More |
A RIFT IN TIME
Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
“Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —President Jimmy Carter, More |
WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE
New Science Fiction on Climate Change
Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” More |
AT THE TEA PARTY
The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right... And Why We Should Take It Seriously.
“A lively and informed expose...” —The Nation More |
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JENNY X
A Novel
“Fast. Funny. Twisted.” —Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland More From Mischief + Mayhem
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PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED
Ten Commands for a Digital Age
“Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today—and Douglas Rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube.” —Howard Rheingold More |
Rich People Things
“Social criticism at its scorching-hot best” —Barbara Ehrenreich More |
Inferno (a poet's novel)
“I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I must feel kind of like Dante felt after seeing the face of God. My descriptive capacity just fails, gives way completely. But I can tell you that Eileen Myles made me understand something I didn’t before. And really, what more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” — Alison Bechdel More |
In Deep Water
The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction
“If you’re looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it's done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it. In a clear and compelling voice, it explains the worst environmental catastrophe of our time, then shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil.” —Robert Redford More |
Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
“We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates … The moment they start to steer this ship towards Israel, we have also been kidnapped. The whole action is illegal.” - Henning Mankell, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla More |
Collected Fictions
“Gordon Lish, famous for all the wrong reasons, has written some of the most fascinating American fiction of the last ten years.” —Don DeLillo More |
This Time We Went Too Far
Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
“Better than any other book, ‘This Time We Went Too Far’ shows how the massive destruction visited on Gaza was not an accidental byproduct of the Israeli invasion but its barely concealed objective.” — Raja Shehadeh, author, Palestinian Walks More |
Going Rouge
Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol... More |