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New Books
Title Author
A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design Nancy Jack Todd
Econest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw, and Timber Paula Baker-LaPorte and Robert LaPorte
Fields that Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food Jenny Kurzweil
The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Brad Lancaster
The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance Gangaji
Smart Permaculture Design Jenny Allen
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World Paul Stamets
Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream Robert Jensen

Archive
Title Author
Not One More Mother's Child Cindy Sheehan
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the fight for Seadrift Diane Wilson
The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy John C. Harrington
The Failure of Democratic Nation Building Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster Svetlana Alexievich
Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price
The Inside Story of the Documentary Film Sensation
Gregg Spotts
The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar William R. Clark
The China Study T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About Kevin Trudeau
Fifty American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism Mickey Z
The United States of Wal-Mart John Dicker
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals John Gray
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century James Howard Kunstler
Home From Nowhere James Howard Kunstler
Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise Robert Inchausti
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
Jim Wallis
Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Health Soil Andy Lee and Pat Foreman
China: The Gathering Threat
Constantine Menges
Poems in Transit, 1957 – 2004 Bob Potter
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism Alexandra Kitty
Wandering Home Bill McKibben
High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet Mark Lynas
Pacifism As Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America Ward Churchill, Mike Ryan, Ed Mead
Voices of a People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Edited by Norman Wirzba
Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny: An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmanent Neriah Lothamer
The Sociopath Next Door Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Synthetic Hormones and the Benefits of Natural Alternatives T.S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi, Bent Formby
PLENTY Magazine Environ Press
Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler
The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution George Draffan
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food Joel Salatin
What Every Person Should Know about War Chris Hedges
A Guide to the Demilitarization of American Youth The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions David Ray Griffin
We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the people, for the people Dan Gillmor
Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy Greg Pahl
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions John Perkins
Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual Solar Energy International
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond
A Natural History of the Nipomo Mesa Region Corrine Ardoin
Softly on this Earth Edited by Ethan Smith
Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald’s Fight for UFO Science Ann Druffel (Brian Crissy editor)
Garden Planet: The Present Phase Change of the Human Species William H. Kötke
Absolute Friends John LeCarre
Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters John Mack
Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade Chellis Glendinning
Oil, Jihad and Destiny Ronald R. Cooke
Don’t Think of an Elephant George Lakoff
Understanding the Global Economy: the Solution to the Failure Howard Richards
The Political Edge Edited by Chris Carlsson
West Coast Food Forestry: A Permaculture Guide Rain Tenaqiya
Ain’t No Rag: Freedom, Family, and the Flag Charlie Daniels
The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno and Bob Spunkmeyher
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil Michael C. Ruppert
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Creating a World that Works for All Sharif Abdullah
We the People: A Call to Take Back America Thom Hartman, illustrated by Neil Cohn
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century Paul Krugman
The Way of Council Jack Zimmerman in collaboration with Virginia Coyle
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines Bill Hicks
Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies Nicholas von Hoffman
Wake up ... You’re Liberal: How we can take America back from the Right Ted Rall
Limits to Growth
How To Get Stupid White Men out of Office: the anti-politics, unboring guide to power Edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and William Upski Wimsatt
Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth Edited by Susan Zakin
Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves Edited by Kenny Ausubel
The Troublemaker’s Teaparty: A Manual for Effective Citizen Action Charles Dobson
Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village Edited by Joseph F. Kennedy
The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices Sarah James and Torbjorn Lahti
The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror David Orr
Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities Throughout the World Raquel Pinderhughes
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Edited by David Solnit
Plan of Attack Bob Woodward
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy William Greider
Granny D: Walking Across America in my 90th Year
You’re Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell
Doris Haddock with Dennis Burke
The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit
of Profit and Power
Joel Bakan
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth Alice Walker
The New Pearl Harbor:
Was the Bush Administration Complicit in 9/11?
David Ray Griffin
Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods Dan Chiras and Dave Wann
The Dunites Norm Hammond
Ripples From the Zambezi: Passion, entrepreneurship, and th erebirth of local economies Ernesto Sirolli
Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar and Marryl Wyn Davies
Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator: Edible Essays on City Farming Spring Gillard
After the Empire Emmanuel Todd
The Little Book of Slugs Edited by Allan Shepherd and Suzanne Galant
Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark
TYR: Myth--Culture--Tradition, Vol. 1 Edited by Joshua Buckley, Collin Cleary, and Michael Moynihan
The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet Jack Reed
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics fo Deceit in the House of Bush Kevin Philips
Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World Alison Wright
The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Ira Winn
The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Last Stand, America’s Virgin Lands Barbara Kingsolver & Annie Griffiths Belt
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq Tariq Ali
Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating Jeffrey M. Smith
Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity Robert Pollin
Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda
The Sick House Survival Guide Angela Hobbs
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Cultured Foods Sandor Ellix Katz
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State Jennifer Klein
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability David Holmgren
Women Celebrate: The Gift in Every Moment Elizabeth Welles
The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves Curtis White
Dude, Where's My Country Michael Moore
Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies Disinformation Company, Edited by Russ Kirk

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press

Edited by Kristina Borjesson, Foreword by Gore Vidal

Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests

Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, Foreword by Vandana Shiva

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Poverty in America

Edited by John de Graaf

Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude

Richard Mahler
A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World Will Hutton

Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time To Take It Back

Jim Hightower

RADICAL SIMPLICITY: Small footprints on a finite Earth

Jim Merkel

The Oh Really? Factor

Peter Hart and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Behind The War On Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Hideous Dream, A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti Stanley A. Goff

Hope in a Dark Time: An Anthology of World Peace-makers

Edited by David Krieger