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The Weather Makers
The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers suggestions for action, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering a plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.

The Truth (with Jokes)
Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a "bitterly funny assault" (The New York Times) that rang "with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet" (Associated Press). Now, this master of political humor strikes again with a powerful and provocative message for all Americans in The Truth (with Jokes).

This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
This Was Not Our War shares first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. Advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers - they represent the full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages. For all their differences, they have this much in common: all survived the war with enough emotional strength to work toward rebuilding their country.

Naked in Baghdad
Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq for NPR. In "Naked in Baghdad" she reveals how as one of only sixteen non-embedded journalists who stayed in the now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion she managed to deliver the most immediate and insightfulreports with unparalleled immediacy. "Naked in Baghdad" is more than news of the war in Iraq. It is Anne Garrels' intimate portrait of the daily events during the Iraqi war.

DisneyWar
When Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme parks, and living rooms around the world-everywhere Disney does business and its products are cherished. DisneyWar is the inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war.

Things Worth Fighting For
Things Worth Fighting For is the collected articles and columns of Michael Kelly, award-winning reporter, war correspondent, columnist, and editor, whose passion for the good story and whose candor and wit made him one of the foremost journalists of our time. Here are the searing portraits of Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, H. Ross Perot, and other seminal political figures of our time that won Kelly national attention.

Stupid White Men
Stupid White Men is where Michael Moore learned to shoot. If Fahrenheit 911 aims its laser focus at the Bush/Iraq target, Stupid White Men is a shotgun. Moore makes a good head start on his new favorite subject with a mind-blowing intro, "A Very American Coup," which not only lays waste to the debacle of the 2000 election but also contains a detailed list of the SWM running the nation including Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, and Ken Lay.