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12 Summer Vacation Book Ideas For AlterNet Readers

By George Bauer / AlterNet

Whether you're itching to leave the house or leave the country, here are some new book suggestions.

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Autoworkers Under the Gun: Why Republicans Demand Worker Concessions (It's Not About Money)

By Gregg Shotwell / Haymarket Books

James Fallows: the GOP Pulled Off an Institutional Coup With the Help of Enablers in the Media

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Elites Are Unanimous: Lower Everyone's Wages and Standard of Living -- Except They Don't Say it Out Loud

By Jeff Faux / AlterNet

Multi-Millionaire Admits: The Government Helped Make Me Rich

By Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“A Lake of Blood and Destruction” – The Voices We Never Hear From America's Wars

Michael Pollan: Americans Cook Less Than Ever, But Love Watching It on TV -- New Book Takes Food Revolution into the Kitchen

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

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Combatting Anti-Gay Bullying Through Young Adult Fiction

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Exposing How Donald Trump Really Made His Fortune: Inheritance from Dad and the Government's Protection Mostly Did the Trick

Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Why Are (Mostly Liberal) American Jews Silent as Right-Wing Extremists in Israel Threaten the Country's Democracy?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

George Lakoff: How Right-Wingers Scam People Into Buying Their Toxic Philosophy

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas

John Bear, Allen Ezell / AlterNet

Chris Hayes: Why America's Meritocracy Is Just a Myth

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality

Joseph Stiglitz / W. W. Norton & Company

The Secret of Our Obsession With Anne Boleyn

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Conservatives Attack Scientific Findings About Why They Hate Science (Helping to Confirm the Science)

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Can Taking Public Transit Be Joyful?

Scott Carlson / Grist.org

Paul Krugman: We Could End This Depression Right Now

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite -- And Most Dangerous -- Fiction

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

What Law Enforcement Missed: New Book Explains Why We Need to Revisit the Oklahoma City Bombing

Laura Miller / Salon

Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

10 of Thomas Friedman's Dumbest "Big Ideas"

Belén Fernández / AlterNet

Public Displays of Connection: How Social Media Can Help Repair the News' Trust Problem

Rory O'Connor / City Lights

The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred

Allison McCarthy / AlterNet

How Activists Are Striking Back Against Drone Warfare

Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

3 Great Reasons You Should Check Out 'The Hunger Games'

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How the Right-Wing Brain Works and What That Means for Progressives

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Why War Isn't Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

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