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Foie Gras: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight

By Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. July 2, 2009.
Environment: Although some people still attempt to justify foie gras production, science backs up common sense: It's foul.

Save Money By Saving Rainwater

By Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 27, 2009.
Water: You think that's rain you feel on your shoulders? Nope. That's actually money falling right from the sky. Here's how to catch it.

Coca-Cola's Troubling History: Drug Addicts, Nazis and MLK's Condemnation

By Mark Thomas, Nation Books. June 27, 2009.
Media and Technology: Knowing the history behind the ubiquitous bottle of Coca-Cola just might leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Why Progressives Should Care About Animal Rights

By Matt Ball, Bruce Friedrich, Lantern Books. June 23, 2009.
Environment: We seek to challenge the very structures of oppression against animals and to work to dismantle the system that says animals are commodities.

7 Ways to Green Up Your Office

By Jon Clift, Amanda Cuthbert, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 23, 2009.
Environment: Here are a few things your office can do to get on the high-speed train to Sustainabilityville.

Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple

By Joel Salatin, Public Affairs Books. June 20, 2009.
Environment: The new book Food Inc. explains the most realistic and effective approach to transforming a system that is slowly but surely killing us.

The Mind-Boggling Variety of Sexual Experience

By Liz Langley, Liz Langley's Blog. June 17, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: The Best Sex Writing 2009 covers everything from virginity pledges to orgasming after a spinal chord injury.

Women's Bodies Remain Battlegrounds in the Culture Wars

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. June 15, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Recently released feminist books offer multifaceted critiques of gender and the culture wars.

You Still Can't Buy a Vibrator in Alabama

By Paul Krassner, Cleis Press. June 13, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Krassner's new book "In Praise of Indecency" attacks the taboos surrounding sex and pornography.

Let’s Get Physical: What's So Great About Working in a Cubicle?

By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, AlterNet. June 13, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Author Matthew Crawford publishes a jeremiad against white-collar culture and the educational system designed to populate it.

Rules of Disengagement: What You Can Do To End Illegal Wars

By Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd, PoliPoint Press. June 13, 2009.
World: The authors of a new book share the success stories of war resisters and ways soldiers and citizens can use their rights to end the wars of today.

How We Can Free Ourselves from a Fossil-Fuel-Soaked Diet

By Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 11, 2009.
Environment: By gradually relocalizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.

Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness

By Lisa M. Hamilton, Counterpoint Press. June 8, 2009.
Environment: A 10th-generation rancher in New Mexico shows how to restore the environment, agriculture and ranching communities.

The Vatican's Dirty Secrets: Bribery, Money Laundering and Mafia Connections

By Philip Willan, Comment Is Free. June 5, 2009.
A new book offers an unprecedented glimpse of the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive financial institutions -- the Vatican's bank.

The Looting of America: How Wall Street Fleeced Millions from Wisconsin Schools

By Les Leopold, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 3, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Wall Street investment houses went after the $100 billion saved in school-district trust funds like Whitefish Bay's, and made a killing.

Homegrown Grains: The Key to Food Security

By Gene Logsdon, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 27, 2009.
Environment: OK, you've mastered tomatoes and peppers -- but how about learning how to grow grains in your own yard?

How a White Powder from the Bolivian Andes Became a Global Phenomenon

By Phillip S. Smith, DRCNet. May 22, 2009.
DrugReporter: A new book traces the history of how just under 150 years, cocaine went from unknown to the multi-billion dollar illicit commodity it is today.

How to Plan an Ecological Water-Harvesting System for Your Home

By Toby Hemenway, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 18, 2009.
Water: Every home has a handy rainwater collection system built right into it: the roof. Here's how to make the most of it.

Ex-Stripper Army Wife Talks Military Marriages, War, PTSD, and Secret Shoe Phones

By Diablo Cody, SMITH Magazine. May 14, 2009.
A new book, "I Love a Man in Uniform," looks at the imperfect individuals behind the red, white, and blue facade.

Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries

By Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 11, 2009.
Water: Industrial ag supplies most of our food, yet its lack of regulation may be more of a threat than Wall Street's.

Why We Can't Get Enough of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher

By Jeffrey Jones, Jonathan Gray, Ethan Thompson, NYU Press. May 9, 2009.
Media and Technology: Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life.

40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation

By James Carville, Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, Simon & Schuster. May 2, 2009.
Politics: James Carville demonstrates why the right-wing faithful shouldn't be holding their breath for their party's second coming.

Locavore to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession-Proof Food

By Matthew Stein, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 7, 2009.
Environment: What's the 'greenest' form of feeding yourself? How can you feed yourself with the smallest possible carbon footprint? Foraging, of course!

Oil Has Peaked: Now Begins the Transition

By Shaun Chamberlin, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 6, 2009.
Environment: We have officially entered the post-oil age in which the transition to lower energy lives is inevitable.

Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What We Can Do About It

By Robert Glennon, Island Press. March 21, 2009.
Water: Our water crisis should occasion grave concern but not panic. We have solutions available; now we need a national commitment to pursue them.

Love and Marriage for an American Ex-Pat in Ghana

By Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle. March 7, 2009.
ForeignPolicy: G. Pascal Zachary's memoir 'Married to Africa' bridges his life as an American journalist with a Nigerian Igbo woman, his polar opposite.

How We Ended Up With Such Vile Ideas About Marriage

By Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. March 5, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Historian Fran Dolan talks about how marriage developed into an institution in which one partner is expected to let go of their needs and desires.

We Are in the Midst of a Cultural Explosion Tied to 'Improving' the Body

By Susie Orbach, Picador Press. March 4, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: A new rhetoric of detox, weight training, brushing, irrigation and cleansing has arisen, and along with it the idea that the body can be perfected.

Halliburton's Army: How Cheney's Former Firm Revolutionized Warmaking and Screwed Us in the Process

By Renee Feltz, Indypendent. February 10, 2009.
World: A new book on Halliburton looks at how a symbol of epic fraud in Iraq achieved so little with so much money.

The Imperialist Propaganda of Hitchens and Friends

By Richard Seymour, Verso. February 9, 2009.
ForeignPolicy: So-called 'liberal' advocates of empire played a crucial role in selling Bush's disastrous wars.

Hunger in the U.S.: A Problem as American as Apple Pie

By Joel Berg, Seven Stories. February 4, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: In a country with enough food and money to feed the world twice over, 1-in-8 people struggles to put food on his or her table.

When Technology Fails: How to Survive the Long Emergency

By Brianne Goodspeed, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 30, 2009.
Media and Technology: Finally, a book for the millions of people who realize that making the shift to sustainability is a matter of economic and ecological survival.

Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. January 28, 2009.
ForeignPolicy: What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is historically wrong?

Rediscovering Hubert Harrison, a Major Influence on Harlem Radicalism

By Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed. January 27, 2009.
A new book brings to life the forgotten history of crusading black public intellectual, Socialist leader and activist from early 20th cent. Harlem.

The Zen of Porn: If Pornography Is Everywhere, Is it Nowhere?

By Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. January 22, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: The ubiquity of porn has rendered it invisible for most adults. But why has pornographic imagery become such an acceptable part of public culture?

Is Marriage the Problem Rather than the Solution?

By Amy DePaul, Bookslut. January 15, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Author Nancy Polikoff discusses how to change the law so that all families get the legal protections of marriage.

How You Can Start a Farm in Heart of the City

By Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen, Process Media. January 9, 2009.
Environment: Sick of flavorless, genetically modified, pesticide-drenched frankenvegetables? It's time to start growing food in your back yard.

6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us

By Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 3, 2009.
Environment: A new book shows that it is not just the cost of nuke plants and their deadly waste that is the energy source's only problems.

Shopaholics, Big Spenders and People in Debt, Getting Smacked by Economic Reality

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. January 1, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: This is the season for how-did-we-go broke books, stories of shopping hangovers and life ripped down to the basics.

The Bizarre Life and Angry Times of Bill O'Reilly

By John Dolan, AlterNet. December 31, 2008.
Media and Technology: O'Reilly's book tells the tale of how he blustered and threatened his way through life to reach TV stardom.

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