Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman
Picador USA

$16.00
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“After painting a frightening picture of where the world is headed, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says he remains a ‘sober optimist.’.... [He] says America has time, if it begins immediately, to lead a green revolution based on advances in energy efficiency, conservation, and research to discover new energy sources to replace fossil fuels.... Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a compelling manifesto that deserves a wide reading, especially by members of Congress.” —The Boston Globe

How They See Us: Meditations on America
by James Atlas
Atlas Books

$14.00
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“A patchwork of personal narratives knitted around the impact of U.S. foreign policy before and after September 11, this book brings together leading voices in world literature, academia and international media including Chris Abani, Ricardo Alarcón, and Terry Eagleton. Ranging from the autobiographical to the philosophical, these pieces reflect on how American cultural, military and political imperialism touches lives from Mexico to Morocco, Canada to China.” —Publishers Weekly

The Irrational Economist
by Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Public Affairs

$26.95
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For The Irrational Economist, a select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to rational decision-making both in our day-to-day life and in the face of catastrophic threats such as climate changes, natural disasters, technological hazards, and human malevolence. At the crossroads of decision sciences, behavioral and neuro-economics, psychology, management, insurance, and finance, their contributions aim to introduce readers to the latest thinking and discoveries.

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
by Martha Nussbaum
Basic Books

$18.95
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In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people’s deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
by Anthony Lewis
Basic Books

$15.95
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“In his new book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, Lewis offers a...heroic account of how courageous judges in the twentieth century created the modern First Amendment by prohibiting the government from banning offensive speech, except to prevent a threat of serious and imminent harm.... Conservative as well as liberal judges now agree that even speech we hate must be protected, and that is one of the glories of the American constitutional tradition. Anthony Lewis is right to celebrate it.” —The New York Times