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more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of 20 aircraft, and 20,000 troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror." Jeremy Scahill has won the prestigious 2007 George Polk Book Award for this bestselling exposé. On September 21, Scahill testified before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the use of private contractors in Iraq. Read the transcript here.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Blood of the Earth The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources By Dilip Hiro This vivid history of oil--and the way it revolutionized civilian life, war, and world politics--sets the stage for the coming oil wars of the 21st Century. In a recent edition of Yale Global Online, Dilip Hiro explains why playing the oil card only goes so far in international diplomacy. Read it here.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro By Ann Louise Bardach As world grapples with the question of what an ailing Fidel Castro means for Cuba, comes the publication of this historic first English publication of his letters from prison. Read the Introduction here.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	There's No Jose Here Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants By Gabriel Thompson The immigration debate has become one of the most heated and polarizing issues of our time. Yet Americans remain largely ignorant about the actual lives behind the headlines and talk-show bluster. This book is an attempt to change that. Read an excerpt.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The Quotable Atheist Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound By Jack Huberman A treasure trove of quotes and aphorisms by philosophers, scientists, poets, writers, artists, entertainers, and political figures.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The Ten Minute Activist Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet By The Mission Collective What if making a difference only required ten minutes of our time every day?
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Iraq Confidential The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein By Scott Ritter New in Paperback Scott Ritter is the straight-talking former marine officer whom the CIA wants to silence. After the 1991 Gulf War, Ritter helped lead the UN weapons inspections of Iraq. But, as Ritter reveals in this explosive book, Washington was only interested in inspections as a tool for its own agenda.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Inside Hamas The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement By Zaki Chehab What is the real nature of Hamas? Since their astounding victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections--and following Hamas's takeover of Gaza--this has become a hotly contested question in the Middle East. On May 21, Zaki Chehab appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Watch here.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The Full Rudy The Man, the Myth, the Mania By Jack Newfield New Edition Rudolph Giuliani is still remembered as "America's mayor;" the man who cleaned up New York and took charge when the Twin Towers fell. After 9/11, Giuliani was named Time's "Person of the Year," knighted by the Queen, and started charging $100,000 per speech. Now, he wants to be president.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Calling All Radicals How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy By Gabriel Thompson American democracy seems to be in retreat. Voting rates are at an all-time low, citizens are disillusioned, and inequality continues to soar. But there is also a belief among regular citizens that change is possible and that it can be achieved the old fashioned way: through grassroots organizing.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann The team who brought us Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reillynow casts a satirical eye on the hilarious sex lives of the nation's small army of libidinous right-wing scolds.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The GOP-Hater's Handbook 378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again By Jack Huberman From the author of the bestselling Bush-Hater's Handbook, and in time for the 2008 election, here comes Jack Huberman's latest foray into the dark side of right-wing politics.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Lost Years Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East By Mark Matthews A vivid account of this contentious and turbulent era in Israeli-American relations, Lost Years illustrates the disastrous failure of George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon to recognize the essential first step towards achieving peace in the Middle East: compromise.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay By Clive Stafford Smith "The best analysis so far of the erosion of civil liberties in America and Britain and the consequences for individuals and society, by the lawyer who has represented more prisoners in Guantánamo than anyone else." --The Economist on one of its Best Books of 2007 Read the author's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in May 2008. Find out more about Clive Stafford Smith.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Extraordinary Evil A Short Walk to Genocide By Barbara Coloroso In this remarkable examination of three historic genocides, Barbara Coloroso, whose studies of bullying have won her international recognition, deconstructs the causes of genocide, as well as its consequences--both for its victims and the fabric of the world at large.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Who Moved My Secret? The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy By Jim Gerard From the author of Beam Me Up Jesus comes this hilarious parody of the self-help books that have made millions off the misery of the masses.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Sovereign Bones New Native American Writing By Eric Gansworth Writers and artists have played key roles in the struggle of native peoples to retain their identities. This collection is a testimony to their resilience. Read the book review on Publishers Weekly.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	What Isn't There Inside a Season of Change By Jocelyn Lieu This "shrapnel" of narratives explores the unforeseen consequences of that warm September morning, when an act of unprecedented violence collided with one woman's day-to-day life as a mother and a writer. Jocelyn Lieu did not lose a loved one in the Twin Towers, but her writing achieves the rare feat of articulating the communal grief that was felt in the wake of 9/11--not only in New York City, but throughout the country and the world.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Fair and Balanced, My Ass! An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann From the authors of Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reillycomes a hilarious skewering of America's number one cable news network. Read an excerpt.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Beam Me Up, Jesus A Heathen's Guide to the Rapture By Jim Gerard From Nostradamus to the Watchtower, prophets and scribes have been getting the date of the Rapture wrong. But who can now deny that the portents of the Second Coming are finally here? The bad news is that the Rapture has come and you've been Left Behind. Read Jim Gerard's lateston the Huffington Post.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Freedom Next Time Resisting the Empire By John Pilger From one of the world's preeminent investigative journalists comes this examination of five countries whose people have shed blood and dreams in their struggle for freedom--and, decades later are still waiting. Read the Guardian's review here.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Waging Peace The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement By Scott Ritter From the author of Iraq Confidentialand Target Irancomes a bold new handbook for the anti-war movement, inspired by the very philosophies of those who peace activists would usually spurn: the masters of the art of conflict.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Grassroots Gardening Rituals for Sustaining Activism By Donna Schaper This illuminating collection of essays shows how the rituals of gardening--dirt touching, seeding, harvesting--can nurture and sustain an activist life, whether you are a radical, urban, nomad, or just someone who wants to stay sufficiently angry, humble, and hopeful. Read an excerpt here.	more Buy It Online Amazon > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Lords of the Land The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 By Idith Zertal, PhD and Akiva Eldar A New York Times Editor's Choice "[T]his important book...the first complete history of the settlement project...provides a detailed narrative of injustice." --New York Times Book Review Read other reviews on Truthdig and Ha'aretz.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	Winning at All Costs A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer By John Foot "It is impossible to comprehend Italy without understanding soccer--and vice-versa." So writes John Foot in this often dark and epic history of soccer in Italy, winners of the 2006 World Cup, and a country where the sport is the national civic religion.	more Buy It Online Amazon > IndieBound.org > Powells.com >	The Professor and the Pupil The Politics and Friendship of W.E.B Du Bois and Paul Robeson By Murali Balaji W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson are both towering figures of African American history; their writing and activism remain influential and inspiring to people around the world. But less is known of the forty year friendship the two men shared. This is the story.

Clive Stafford Smith on PBS Documentary

October 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
Watch Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith in a new PBS documentary, Torturing Democracy. Stafford Smith is the author of Eight o' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side and founder of the legal charity, Reprieve, whose clients include prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

November 20 - 21
This is Change?
(WBAI, MNN and more)
Watch/listen to Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill talk about his latest article on AlterNet, titled, "This is Change?", which profiles the people likely to be major players in an Obama administration. MORE

November 23 | 10 am
Amy Alexander at Watergate Conference
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Institute Fellow Amy Alexander talk with fellow panelists about how bloggers are changing politics. This event is part of the National Association of Black Journalists' Watergate Conference on Political and Congressional Reporting: Did Politics Change the Media or Did Media Change Politics? MORE

December 7 | 4 pm
Gary Younge Pays Tribute to Studs Terkel
(Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC)
Institute Fellow Gary Younge will be one of the luminaries paying tribute to the life of legendary oral historian and activist Studs Terkel, who died on October 31 at the age of 96. The event will be open to the public and free of charge. MORE

December 8
The Nation Institute Annual Dinner Gala
(Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC)
The Nation Institute's Annual Gala Dinner is Monday, December 8 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Special guests include Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood; comedian Lewis Black; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. MORE

January 15 | 8:30 am
Deepa Fernandes Wins North Star News Prize
(4 Times Square, NYC)
Institute Fellow Deepa Fernandes is one of three winners of the North Star News Prize, which recognizes people of color who have made outstanding contributions to journalism, media and communications, and public understanding of the struggle for social justice. MORE



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The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill

The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources By Dilip Hiro

By Ann Louise Bardach

Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants By Gabriel Thompson

Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound By Jack Huberman

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet By The Mission Collective

The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein By Scott Ritter

New in Paperback

The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement By Zaki Chehab

The Man, the Myth, the Mania By Jack Newfield

New Edition

How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy By Gabriel Thompson

A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann

378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again By Jack Huberman

Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East By Mark Matthews

Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay By Clive Stafford Smith

A Short Walk to Genocide By Barbara Coloroso

The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy By Jim Gerard

New Native American Writing By Eric Gansworth

Inside a Season of Change By Jocelyn Lieu

An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann

A Heathen's Guide to the Rapture By Jim Gerard

Resisting the Empire By John Pilger

The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement By Scott Ritter

Rituals for Sustaining Activism By Donna Schaper

The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 By Idith Zertal, PhD and Akiva Eldar

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer By John Foot

The Politics and Friendship of W.E.B Du Bois and Paul Robeson By Murali Balaji

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

By Jeremy Scahill

The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources

By Dilip Hiro

Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants

By Gabriel Thompson

Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound

By Jack Huberman

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective

The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein

By Scott Ritter

The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement

By Zaki Chehab

The Man, the Myth, the Mania

By Jack Newfield

How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy

By Gabriel Thompson

A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals

By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann

378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again

By Jack Huberman

Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East

By Mark Matthews

Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay

By Clive Stafford Smith

A Short Walk to Genocide

By Barbara Coloroso

The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy

By Jim Gerard

New Native American Writing

By Eric Gansworth

Inside a Season of Change

By Jocelyn Lieu

An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News

By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann

A Heathen's Guide to the Rapture

By Jim Gerard

Resisting the Empire

By John Pilger

The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement

By Scott Ritter

Rituals for Sustaining Activism

By Donna Schaper

The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007

By Idith Zertal, PhD and Akiva Eldar

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer

By John Foot

The Politics and Friendship of W.E.B Du Bois and Paul Robeson

By Murali Balaji