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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Powells.com Staff Pick
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use
to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
is a
powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel
and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the
white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the
unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick
"What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell
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At once a meditation on the motives of the pilgrims and a history of religion in America, The Wordy Shipmates will be a welcome addition to your history shelves. Sarah Vowell brings her usual wry humor and sharp insight to a piece of American history...
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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
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This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her...
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The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass
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A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the...
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
by Luis Rodriguez
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This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide....
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
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Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine...
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd
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A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian...
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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
by Slavoj Zizek
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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ži...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
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Ever wonder why we have suburbs? Or why we wanted them in the first place? What about the lovely ideal of the Parisian street lined with cafes and shops? Why don't we have more of those? Or would we want them at all? Then read this! If you live in, near,...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
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In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long...
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