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  Jennifer Government

  by Max Barry

  Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye... (more)
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  Homegrown Democrat

  A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

  by Garrison Keillor

  In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation’s best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values—the Golden Rule, the obligation to defend the weak against the powerful, and others—that define his hard-working Midwestern... (more)
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  Assassination Vacation

  by Sarah Vowell

  Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other — a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry... (more)
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  Guerrilla Warfare

  by Ernesto Che Guevara, Thomas M. Davies, Brian Loveman, Pombo

  This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara's most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. 5 illustrations.
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  Transmetropolitan: Book 1

  Back on the Street

  by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis, Ray Krissing

  Ellis's dystopic narrative, with its full-color tale of a gonzo journalist, shares with mainstream superhero comics a macho ethos that undermines the otherwise cool Watchmen-like script. Spider Jerusalem, a hip reporter of the Hunter Thompson mode, breaks a five-year drug binge on a mountaintop to replenish his resources. The city he returns to resembles the post-apocalyptic Blade Runner and all its funky visual... (more)
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  Transmetropolitan: Book 6

  Gouge Away

  by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

  Despite--or perhaps with the aid of--drugs, drinking, and paranoia, Spider Jerusalem and his filthy assistants are hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly-elected President's campaign. Features three stand-alone stories: "Nobody Loves me, "The Walk" and "Dancing in the Here and Now," and also includes the three-part "Gouge Away" storyline.
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  Transmetropolitan: Book 7

  Spider's Thrash

  by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

  The hammer has come down, but outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has managed to stay one step ahead of his detractors: the President of the United States and his lackeys. After losing his job, his bank account and his apartment, Jerusalem and his filthy assistants have gone underground to implement his plan to bring down the President.
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  Transmetropolitan: Book 0

  Tales of Human Waste

  by Warren Ellis

  Meet Spider Jerusalem, the smart-mouthed, heavily-armed, cigar-smoking gonzo reporter of the future (a sort of cyberpunk Hunter S. Thompson) as he reacquaints himself with his city's fringe elements in this final farewell to Transmetropolitan. This graphic novel features a host of one and two page stories from comics' finest artists, illustrating excerpts from the Word columns of crazed outlaw journalist Spider... (more)
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  Transmetropolitan: Book 10

  One More Time

  by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

  Warren Ellis' searing and satirical socio-political adventures of Spider Jerusalem, the freelance, drug-addled, brain-damaged, anarchic investigative journalist, finally reach their awesome climax - and with gusto! Spider is close to finally nailing US President Callahan, whose attempts to hide his 'unusual' passions have left a bloody trail in his wake. But time is short: the President has declared martial law... (more)
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  Cinema Nation: The Best Writing on Film from the Nation 1913-2000

  From the Marx Brothers to Mickey Mouse, from Charlie Chaplin to Austin Powers, The Nation magazine's coverage of cinema has reflected the critical, dissenting spirit that has animated the 135-year old radical weekly but also the wonder that this new mass medium unleashed. A 1913 editorial opined, "Robert Burn's famous prayer has been answered. The gift has been given us too see ourselves as others see us". The... (more)
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  The Company Novels

  The Empress of Mars

  by Kage Baker

  When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet -- only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn't turn a profit on Mars.This is the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy... (more)
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  The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

  by Studs Terkel

  A writer, reporter, and above all, a good listener, Studs Turkel has spent a career posing provocative questions and actively listening to the answers. In "The Good War" , Terkel talks to Americans, both famous and obscure, about their contrasting, not always golden, memories of the war that shaped their lives, World War II. This first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book features a new... (more)
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  Massacre in Mexico

  by Elena Poniatowska

  Poniatowska reports on the massacre of 325 unarmed Mexican students who were peacefully protesting police repression one week prior to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. PW called this ``heartbreaking. . . . A massive chronicle that builds to the night of the Tlatelolco massacre in an accumulation of skillfully crosscut eyewitness accounts.'' Photos. Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  Bigend Trilogy: Book 2

  Spook Country

  by William Gibson

  Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate... (more)
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  Your Inner Fish

  A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

  by Neil Shubin

  Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who... (more)
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  The Wordy Shipmates

  by Sarah Vowell

  The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times –bestselling author Sarah Vowell’s exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill”—a shining example, a “city that cannot be hid.” To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means— and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who... (more)
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  The Omnivore's Dilemma

  A Natural History of Four Meals

  by Michael Pollan

  The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers,... (more)
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  The Mars Trilogy: Book 1

  Red Mars

  by Kim Stanley Robinson

  For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a... (more)
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  The Mars Trilogy: Book 2

  Green Mars

  by Kim Stanley Robinson

  Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell.... (more)
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  The Communist Manifesto

  by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

  Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition... (more)