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Mainstream Political and Economic Commentary
Non-fiction books that focus on current philosophical, socio-economic, cultural and political issues and challenges facing everyday men and women.
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
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The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming theGlobal Aid Industry
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Raj Kumar (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 145 ratings
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A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
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Bad Bet : The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry
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Timothy L. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
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The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex
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Michael Swanson (Goodreads Author)
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
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When the Rivers Run Dry, Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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Water Politics
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The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
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Sally Kohn (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
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To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn't Too Late to Reverse Course
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It Can't Happen Here
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
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A Warning
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
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Howard Bryant (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 398 ratings
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The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
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Heidi Boghosian (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left"
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Jim Wallis (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy
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Joni Adamson (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics
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Eric Paul Roorda (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Militarization: A Reader
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Roberto J. González (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Michael Eric Dyson Reader
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APB: Artists against Police Brutality
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The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
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Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
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Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action
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Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
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Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
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#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
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The Republican War on Science
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
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The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
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Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran
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The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
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Syria on the Brink: US National Security and a Country in Turmoil
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Christopher J. Hill (Goodreads Author)
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
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The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt Against Globalization
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Hit the Drum: An Insider's Account of How the Charter School Idea Became a National Movement (1)
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Sarah Tantillo (Goodreads Author)
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The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World (3) (Politics of Place)
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
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The International Human Rights Movement: A History
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