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Tree Spiker: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Life of a Radical Environmental Activist

By Mike Roselle / St. Martin's Press

One of the most controversial figures in the conservationist movement shares personal stories of (often hilarious) radical activism.

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Countries Are Preparing for Rising Seas But the U.S. Is Far Behind

By Orrin Pilkey, Rob Young / Island Press

Here's the Skinny on Why Wal-Mart Is So Evil (and Has Made Such a Killing)

By David Moberg / In These Times

We Can't Solve Our Food Crisis if We Don't Talk About Water

By Sandor Ellix Katz / Chelsea Green Publishing

'I Was a Birthday Present for an 82-Year-Old Grandmother'

By David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin Jr. / Soft Skull Press

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An Army of Home-Schooled "Christian Soldiers" On a Mission to "Take Back America for God"

Robert Kunzman / Beacon Press

Is Child Kidnapper Philip Garrido More Evil Than Jeffrey Dahmer? Expert Offers Handy 22-Point Ranking Guide

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought

Alan Snitow / San Francisco Chronicle

How We Sabotage Young Girls

Rachel Simmons / The Penguin Press

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum / Basic Books

Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis

Kari Lydersen / Melville House Publishing

Is Whole Foods Sustainable or Just a High-Priced Hoax? I Took a Job There to Find Out

Jill Richardson / Ig Publishing

Dissecting Utopia: New Book Assesses Latin American Left

Benjamin Dangl / AlterNet

Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

Larry Schweiger / Fulcrum Publishing

The Sky Isn't Falling: It Turns Out Gay Marriage Has Not Destroyed the Institution for Heteros

M. V. Lee Badgett / NYU Press

5 Recycling Myths Shattered

Nicky Scott / Chelsea Green Publishing

Why Men Need to Get Over Their Femiphobia -- Fear and Disdain of the Female

Michael Eric Dyson / Basic Books

How Much Water Do You Use? Here's Some Quick Numbers

Jon Clift, Amanda Cuthbert / Chelsea Green Publishing

Howard Dean: How Republican Attack Dogs Plan to Thwart Health Reform

Howard Dean / Chelsea Green Publishing

The Straight State: How Gays Became the "Anticitizen"

Steven Epstein / The Nation

Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free

Sandor Ellix Katz / Chelsea Green Publishing

Will Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Continue to Defy Selling Out to Corporate Culture?

Richard Seireeni / Chelsea Green Publishing

Why Midwestern Small Towns Have Been Ravaged by Meth Addiction

Charles Homans / Washington Monthly

Beyond Attica: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Behind Bars

Hans Bennett / AlterNet

Provocative New Book Challenges Us to Really Ask "Why?"

Andrea Batista Schlesinger / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Alexander Zaitchik / AlterNet

Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

Theresa Amato / The New Press

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics

Will Allen / Chelsea Green Publishing

Breadline USA: Why People Are Going Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Sasha Abramsky / PoliPoint Press

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