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  1. Nickel and Dimed

    by Barbara Ehrenreich

    The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the... (learn more about this book)

  2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

    From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct... (learn more about this book)

  3. John Perkins Economic Hitman: Book 1

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

    by John Perkins, John Perkins

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to... (learn more about this book)

  4. Not Without My Daughter

    by Betty Mahmoody

    'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.' Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled... (learn more about this book)

  5. Zeitoun

    by Dave Eggers

    Dave Eggers, the award winning author of "What Is the What?", wrote this true account of lives altered after Hurricane Katrina. "Zeitoun" was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research — in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria.

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  6. The End of Faith

    by Sam Harris

    Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: " The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say." This... (learn more about this book)

  7. The Shock Doctrine

    by Naomi Klein

    The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S.... (learn more about this book)

  8. No Logo

    by Naomi Klein

    With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century.... (learn more about this book)

  9. Wringer

    by Jerry Spinelli

    He was not aware that he ever stopped crying.In his sleep a voice echoed down the long dark barrel of a cannon: You have run out of birthdays. In the morning he awoke suddenly to a flutter of wings. Birthdays are an obsession where Palmer comes from, but if turning a year older means... (learn more about this book)

  10. Letter to a Christian Nation

    by Sam Harris

    “Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The... (learn more about this book)

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