Books
09/22/08
02:35:09 am, Categories: Books, 650 words
By: Steven T. Wax
“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax, the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen --- governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America?
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06/05/08
04:08:18 pm, Categories: Books, 809 words
by Vincent Bugliosi
In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Vincent Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. A searing indictment of the President and his administration, which outlines a legally credible pathway to holding our highest government officials accountable for their actions, thereby creating a framework for future occupants of the oval office. Vincent Bugliosi calls for the United States of America to return to the great nation it once was and can be again. He believes the first step to achieving this goal is to bring those responsible for the war in Iraq to justice.
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06/02/08
03:35:58 am, Categories: Books, 2691 words
By: Peter Navarro
“In this comprehensive examination of China’s mushrooming economy, Navarro masterfully illuminates the dark sides of China’s great leaps into privatization and globalization.” Discover how to protect yourself (or your business) from the defective and sometimes lethal products pouring out of China’s factories...how China’s enormous trade surplus threatens to “nuke” the U.S. economy...how China’s accelerating military buildup and secret Star Wars program is sharply tipping the global strategic balance... From exploding cell phone batteries, bacteria–ridden tofu, and catfish loaded to the gills with banned antibiotics, virtually nothing coming out of today’s China should be considered safe. This chapter shows you just why this is so, just what kind of products you should fear most, and why, as Senator Dick Durbin has aptly noted, “Made in China” has become a code red “warning label” that no sensible consumer should ignore.
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02/16/08
03:28:31 am, Categories: Books, 830 words
By: David M. Traversi
This revolutionary book signals a new paradigm in leadership. Author David M. Traversi, nationally known executive coach, entrepreneur, and former corporate chief executive and investment banker, has worked with thousands of leaders over the course of his career. With a thesis that leadership on average is failing in most forums, and failing at an increasing rate as technology accelerates and complicates our existence... In The Source of Leadership, Traversi identifies and instructs how to develop eight personal drivers, energies deep within - each of which drives several of the traits and functions of the effective leader.
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02/11/08
07:41:57 am, Categories: Books, 740 words
By: Douglas E. Schoen
The American people’s confidence in our government is gone. Only 25% of Americans are satisfied with the state of their country. We are growing alienated from the Democratic and Republican parties, which are dominated by ideologues who offer simplistic solutions. The electorate thinks America has gone in the wrong direction. Both President Bush and Congress are at close to record-low levels of popular approval. Large portions of the American people do not think the political system can be fixed. The two major parties are unpopular and the electorate is polarized, as they have come to believe that neither side is willing or able to address important issues. The voters want change."
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12/06/07
02:21:46 am, Categories: Books, 1433 words
By: Paul Brown
Explaining the science of global warming in layman's terms, this shocking and factual assessment by Paul Brown examines scientist's predictions that the earth could reach the point of no return within the next 10 years. Global economic collapse, and the collapse of civilization itself, could occur unless greenhouse-gas emissions are controlled, warns Guardian correspondent Brown. He supports his revelations with stunning color photographs showing human kind's devestating effects on the planet such as: melting ice caps, rising sea levels, desertification, dust storms, and powerful hurricanes. Brown denounces politicians who refuse to take action to prevent the coming cataclysm, reserving special condemnation for George W. Bush.
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11/23/07
10:59:04 pm, Categories: Books, 2098 words
By David W. Blight
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom.
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09/28/07
02:52:17 pm, Categories: Books, 1850 words
Co-edited by: Trettien, Palecek, & Annis
Cost of Freedom vividly documents the actions of citizens challenging corporate government. It leaves readers with the hope that citizens will get organized and take back their government from officialdom's criminality and brutality against the powerless and defenseless, against children, mothers and fathers, against our constitution and other laws of the land. Looking at these pages, one is reminded of the persistence and the hope in movements to build a better world. This collection of passionate and rational prose, poetry, photographs and quotes from our courageous forebears is something we clearly aren't going to get from corporate media outlets.
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02:51:55 pm, Categories: Books, 2971 words
By: Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin has gotten incredible access to a subculture that is fast becoming a mighty political force. This insightful book reveals the new face of the Christian right: highly educated young people brilliantly trained to advance their worldview into mainstream America. Rosin's frank and candid portraits of these fiercely dedicated youth leave the reader wondering: What will my world be like when these kids are in charge of it?"
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08/29/07
03:28:43 am, Categories: Books, 1068 words
By William Cope Moyers and Katherine Ketcham
There was a sharp rap on the door, followed by a muffled but unmistakable command from a voice outside in the hallway. "We want the white guy, just the white guy. We know he's in there. He comes out now and there's no trouble for anyone later." I was the "white guy." I knew in that instant that my family's desperate search to track me down had ended at this decayed two-story apartment in a violent pocket of Atlanta's inner city. Terrified, I rushed around the room, trying to warn the other crack heads to sit still and keep quiet.
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08/21/07
04:57:55 pm, Categories: Books, 1000 words
By: Dom Martin
Dom Martin's earlier book of illustrated poetry, Exodus to Eternity, published in the millennium year 2002, explored in fascinating ways, man's inhumanity towards his fellowmen. His present volume, which echoes the first, CoEXISTENCE: Humanity’s Wailing Wall, is a collection of some 77 poems. The pages are graced by the poet-artist's unique and often-startling pencil drawings, which remind one of the agonies expressed in Pablo Picasso's famous painting, “Guernica”.
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05/23/07
10:35:44 am, Categories: Books, 428 words
By: Mike Palecek
Michael M works in a group home in the small town of Homeland in Middle America. He’s an average man who graduated from Homeland Senior High School, married a Homeland girl and had Homeland kids. M wants nothing more than to win the drawing for The Home Helper Show so he can get a new kitchen and maybe a pool. An improbable accident lands him in jail as the ringleader of terrorist activities in Homeland. He’s clueless about the whole thing, believing what he’s told, believing what he wants to believe. M is just like us. Homeland is what America could become. It’s absurd and shocking, but even when it’s totally unbelievable it’s just close enough to be terrifying.
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05/22/07
03:02:30 pm, Categories: Books, 2728 words
By: Jean Pfaelzer
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1848, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands of Chinese residents–and how the victims bravely fought back. In town after town, as races and classes were pitted against one another in the raw and anarchistic West, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field workers, prostitutes and merchants’ wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of town, sometimes thrown into railroad cars along the very tracks they had built.
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02:33:58 pm, Categories: Books, 272 words
By: Marc Freedman
The boomers are rejecting conventional notions of retirement and crossing into a new stage of work-and their energy could transform what work means for all Americans. The movement of millions of sixty-somethings into a new phase in their working lives constitutes one of the most significant social trends in this country in nearly half a century. Encore describes the competing visions for work that are already lining up to capture the hearts and minds, and the time, of waves of baby boomers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next twenty or thirty years on the golf course.
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05/08/07
08:11:06 pm, Categories: Books, 1827 words
By: Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? In this terrifically insightful and engaging book, renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look at how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right -- a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.
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05/02/07
10:42:16 am, Categories: Books, 727 words
By: Greg Palast
"Gripping, provocative, inspiring... [A] modern Declaration of Independence, this book exposes the abuses of today's global Empire and calls on us to take action. Palast challenges us to replace a system he describes as 'un-American' with one that will create a sane, equitable, and sustainable world for our children." Greg's most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Armed Madhouse brings you the stories not allowed in The New York Times. Using more than fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans liberated from the Pentagon, FBI, World Bank, and ExxonMobil, Palast cuts through the TV news babytalk. Palast says, "Don't be fooled by the fact that 'Armed Madhouse' is entertaining -- this is my most serious reporting yet -- connecting oil panic, Hurricane Katrina, Chinese currency, Venezuela's petrodollars, disappearing ballots, Thomas Friedman, more oil, and the murder of General Motors. These are dispatches from the front lines of the class war."
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04/15/07
08:15:51 am, Categories: Books, 577 words
By: Paul Hawken
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians and the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.
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06:25:23 am, Categories: Books, 1701 words
By: Mohsin Hamid
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
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03/31/07
02:54:37 am, Categories: Books, 622 words
By: Atul Gawande
The bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession. Nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with every decision. Gawande's gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, labor and delivery rooms in Boston, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms around the country.
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03/10/07
05:38:50 am, Categories: Books, 1106 words
By: Eileen Fleming
Impelled, compelled, and propelled by her faith as a progressive Christian, Eileen Fleming has journeyed four times to the Occupied Palestinian Territories since June 2005. She has met with democratically elected and NONVIOLENT members of Hamas, scores of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and a few 21st-century prophets. The pages within this brave new work contain some of those interviews and her experiences listening to Christians, Muslims, Jews, secularists, anarchists, Nobel Peace Prize Nominees, and the whistleblower of Israel’s underground WMD Program. This fascinating portrait will open your eyes and heart, and you will look at the Middle East in a new light. “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:32 Purchase at: Barnes and Noble / Amazon
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