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In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
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In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
The shifting weather patterns of today - what we call "global warming" - will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons.
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(PDF digital format) In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
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The shifting weather patterns of today - what we call "global warming" - will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons.
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Guillotined!
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Guillotined!
Alexander Cockburn sets out to save the English language from abuse by journalists, politicians, and bloggers. Cockburn lines up a most wanted list of cliches, over-used phrases and tedious words and consigns them for execution. In his lethally sharp prose, the co-editor of the popular website and political newsletter CounterPunch inveighs against the corruption and debasement of common speech. He ridicules the use of hackneyed terms like "national conversation," "international community," and "sustainable development." This short, scorching pamphlet was Cockburn's final work. Guillotined was literally written on his deathbed. But the prose is fiery as ever. From the pen of one its greatest practitioners, Guillotined is a lucid and funny polemic about saving the English language from extinction.
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Fear of the Animal Planet by Jason Hribal
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Fear of the Animal Planet by Jason Hribal
A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had repeatedly fed her lit cigarettes. A pair of orangutans at the San Diego Zoo steal a crowbar and screwdriver and break-out of their enclosure. An orca at Sea World snatches his trainer into the pool and holds her underwater until she drowns. What's going on here? Are these mere accidents? Simply cases of animals acting on instinct? That's what the zoos and animal theme parks would have you believe. But historian Jason Hribal tells a different story. In the most provocative book on animal rights since Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, Hribal argues persuasively that these escapes and attacks are deliberate, that the animals are acting with intent, that they are asserting their own desires for freedom. Fear of the Animal Planet is a harrowing, and curiously uplifting, chronicle of resistance against the captivity and torture of animals.
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Born Under a Bad Sky
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Born Under a Bad Sky
Enter a world that is part Hieronymus Bosch and part Georgia O'Keefe. This is not only a savage philippic against the foulers of Nature's temple, but an homage to the planet itself. There is beauty as well as horrors here. These dispatches are from the frontlines of the war on Earth. Gird yourself!
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Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die
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Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die
Wasting Libby chronicles decades of neglect by state and federal agencies, which allowed the Grace corporation to reap millions in profits from the largest vermiculite mine in the world, while knowingly exposing generations of Montana residents to fatal levels of asbestos-contaminated dust. Libby's story, which culminates in the 2009 criminal trial of the corporation's executives, is ultimately the tale of the families who fought Grace for justice, who refused to sacrifice their dignity even as they lost their lives.
With an introduction by actor and environmentalist Jeff Bridges.
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The Case Against Israel
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The Case Against Israel
The Case Against Israel by Michael Neumann, professor of philosophy at Trent University, systematically dismantles the rationales for Israel put forward by Alan Dershowitz and other defenders of the Zionist state.
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The Politics of Anti-Semitism
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The Politics of Anti-Semitism
The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, confronts how the slur of "anti-semite" has been used to intimidate critics of Israel's abuse of Palestinians. It includes essays by Uri Avnery, Edward Said, Michael Neumann and Bill and Kathy Christison and more.
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Weaponizing Anthropology by David Price
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Weaponizing Anthropology by David Price
Weaponizing Anthropology
is a concise and profound critique of the rapid
transformation of American social science into an
appendage of the National Security State.
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How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
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How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker", "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the Irish gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful political machines that grew out of them. Cassidy uncovers a secret national heritage, long discounted by our WASP-dominated culture.
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Guillotined! (PDF digital format)
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Guillotined! (PDF digital format)
The PDF file of Guillotined will be emailed within 24 hours of purchase. Alexander Cockburn sets out to save the English language from abuse by journalists, politicians, and bloggers. Cockburn lines up a most wanted list of cliches, over-used phrases and tedious words and consigns them for execution. In his lethally sharp prose, the co-editor of the popular website and political newsletter CounterPunch inveighs against the corruption and debasement of common speech. He ridicules the use of hackneyed terms like "national conversation," "international community," and "sustainable development." This short, scorching pamphlet was Cockburn's final work. Guillotined was literally written on his deathbed. But the prose is fiery as ever. From the pen of one its greatest practitioners, Guillotined is a lucid and funny polemic about saving the English language from extinction.
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Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
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Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration, as the president-in-waiting stocked his cabinet with corporate hacks, cut secret deals with Wall Street titans and plotted a bloody escalation of the senseless war in Afghanistan. Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.
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How the Economy was Lost by Paul Craig Roberts (PDF digital format)
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How the Economy was Lost by Paul Craig Roberts (PDF digital format)
Available as a digital book only: The US economy has disintegrated, and with it into the abyss plummet the blueprints of neoliberal economists, whose theories about "the free market" have now gone the way of medieval alchemy. No voice has been stronger, no prose more forceful, than that of Paul Craig Roberts in predicting collapse. His weekly columns in CounterPunch have won an audience of millions around the world, grateful for a trained economist who can explain lucidly how the well-being of the planet has been held hostage by the gangster elite. Now Dr. Roberts has written the shortest, sharpest outline of economics for the twenty-first century ever put between book covers. He traces the path to ruin and lays out the choices that must be made. There is the "empty world" of corporate exploitation, abetted by the vast majority of economists; or the "full world" of responsible management and distribution of our resources. Amid crisis, this is the guide you've been waiting for. PDF is emailed within 48 hours of purchase, and sooner on weekdays.
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Yellowstone Drift
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Yellowstone Drift
In a time when everything seems to be regulated, controlled, and monitored, Yellowstone Drift is a refreshing and often exhilarating look at the natural wonder of Montana's Yellowstone River. High above sea level in the mountains of the Yellowstone National Park plateau, the river tumbles and rushes down to the Paradise Valley just north of Livingston, Montana, before meandering through the northern high plains for well over five hundred serpentine miles to its confluence with the Missouri River in North Dakota. John Holt, the Hunter S. Thompson of fly-fishing writing, in his customary free-form, anecdotal style and oblique vision, takes the reader on a wild ride down this natural treasure, examining the wildlife, the people, the fishing, and the river itself.
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Waiting for Lightning to Strike
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Waiting for Lightning to Strike
The year that saw an African American run for the presidency—as a viable contender—for the first time in US history also witnessed a truly remarkable silence—one that was scarcely coincidental. In all the millions of words written about the political ascent of one black man, there was virtually nothing about the descent of black leadership into well-nigh total ineffectiveness. Barack Obama’s personal itinerary was mapped in the minutest detail. The larger itinerary of African Americans was mostly ignored.

Kevin Alexander Gray is a civil rights organizer in South Carolina. He is also a contributing editor to Black News, a former President of the SC ACLU, and was Jesse Jackson's SC campaign manager in 1988. There’s no keener mind, no sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics.
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Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green To Me
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Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green To Me
Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me by Jeffrey St. Clair is a merciless account of how politicians of both parties have waged war upon the environment, from Alaska to Yellowstone, from the redwoods to the coal mines of West Virginia. "St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism." Josh Frank.
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End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
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End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
End Times describes the crisis of the old Fourth Estate: declining profits, lowered credibility,as evinced by the Judy Miller and Wen Ho Lee scandals. Wherever one looks, from the plunging profit margins of the New York Times, of the Los Angeles Times, to the death of the old alternative weekly market – marked by the take over of the Village Voice by Phoenix-based New Times – we find the omens of doom. St Clair and Cockburn set them forth and say Good Riddance.
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Hammered by the Irish by Harry Browne
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Hammered by the Irish by Harry Browne
The true story of an act of conscience that touched hearts and minds, in an epic of popular resistance. Author Harry Browne is a journalism lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
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Dime's Worth of Difference
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Dime's Worth of Difference
Why the Democrats lost to Bush and why it likely won't matter even if they somehow win back the White House and Congress. Essays by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski, Vijay Prashad, Gabriel Kolko and more.
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Spell Albuquerque
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Spell Albuquerque
Spell Albuquerque is an inspiring memoir of one woman's struggle to overcome racism and institutional authority and to achieve what everyone said was impossible.
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A Bush & Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America
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A Bush & Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America
By Saul Landau. Foreward by Gore Vidal. Botox promoters promise to wipe away wrinkles, the signs of aging- the signs of time passing. Such "eternal youth" potions metophorically help erase the very notion of time itself. In a phony world, increasingly dependent on smoke and mirrors, it is no wonder we look at elected officials like a cheap circus act. Saul Landau travels in and out of America, from the stress-filled cultures of Southern California business people and poor towns in Texas, to the wildly booming streets of Hanoi and temples of Angkor Wat, to muse on just how low we have sunk. The book explores the ironies of a time in which science uncovers the genetic code and masters of physics of instant global communication technology, while bible thumpers and talkers to Christ advocate medieval crusades to spread their order to infidels. gore Vidal provides a scabrously funny introduction to a book by an author he "loves to steal ideas from."
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Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex
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Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex
A steaming collection of essays on sex, music, art, architecture and culture from the editors and writers of CounterPunch, including a trip inside the Kinsey Institute, an exposition on the links between Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution, the transcripts of the stage tapes from Bob Dylan's infamous electric performance at Newport in 1964 that prove they weren't booing him but the ridiculous Peter Yarrow, and much, much more.
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Imperial Crusades
Imperial Crusades
Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair is CounterPunch's scorching new chronicle of the last decade of war, from Clinton's assault on Yugoslavia to Bush Jr's wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Audio CD Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn
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Audio CD Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn
Audio CD: This is a "wittiest of" maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn's talks. Whether he's skewering the fallacies of the drug war or illuminating the dark crevices of secret government, his erudite and extemporaneous style warms the hearts of even the stodgiest cynics of the left.
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