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• 2009 Peace Calendar (for Wall) -- Large Format (14 x 22) Pre-Order at Reduced Price (Price Will Go Up $4.00 After August 1 -- Early Fall Delivery) Educate • Agitate • Organize with 2009 Peace Calendar! One of BuzzFlash's Biggest Sellers Last Year.
• JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (Hardcover) James W. Douglass
• Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Hardcover) Maggie Jackson, with a Foreword by Bill McKibben
• Grandmothers Against the War: How We Got Off Our Fannies and Stood Up for Peace (Paperback) Joan Wile, with an Introduction by Malachy McCourt
• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Hardcover) Jeff Sharlet
• Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives (Paperback) By Rory O'Connor, With Aaron Cutler
• The Latest from George Lakoff: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (Hardcover) George Lakoff
• Moyers on Democracy (Hardcover) Bill Moyers
• Bill Richardson's "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life" (Paperback) Bill Richardson
• Believing in Ourselves: A Celebration of Women (Hardcover Photography and Inspirational Story Oversize Book) Nancy Carson (Editor), Ariel Jennifer Jones (Photographer),
• The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington (Hardcover) David Sirota
• The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (Hardcover) Matt Taibbi
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover - A Whopping 896 Pages) Rick Perlstein
• Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy (Paperback) Jeffrey Feldman
• Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (Hardcover) Arianna Huffington
• Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation (Hardcover - 592 Pages) Sheila Weller
• Now in Paperback! Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" Al Gore
• Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover) -- Bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of "The Namesake" Jhumpa Lahiri
• Peace: The Biography of a Symbol on Its 50th Anniversary By Ken Kolsbun, with Michael Sweeney
• Armageddon in Retrospect Kurt Vonnegut, With an Introduction by His Son, Mark Vonnegut
• The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Hardcover) -- Just Published Nick Turse
• Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" Illustrated Edition -- Just Released (Large Format Paperback) Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle
• Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America (Hardcover) Eric Alterman
• Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Kingdom (Hardcover) John Gorenfeld
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 Taylor Branch
• God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (Hardcover) Sarah Posner
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Hardcover) by Drew Gilpin Faust
• Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book Review for BuzzFlash: Kafka's "The Trial" Franz Kafka, Translated by Breon Mitchell
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback) Benjamin Franklin
• Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values (Hardcover) Keith Olbermann
• 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes (Paperback) With an Introduction by David Cay Johnston
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) (Hardcover) Autographed by the Author David Cay Johnston
• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Hardcover) By Anthony Lewis
• The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback) By Robert O. Paxton
• Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback): Mormon Extremism By Jon Krakauer, Author of "Into Thin Air" and "Into the Wild"
• Why Daddy is a Democrat By Jeremy Zilber, Illustrated by Yuliya Firsova
• American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (Hardcover) By Sasha Abramsky
• Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life (Hardcover) Ted Gup
• Shooting War (Hardcover) "The most-anticipated graphic novel of the year." By Anthony Lappe (Author), Dan Goldman (Author)
• Cuba on the Verge (Coffee Table Photo and Essay Book) - Not Available for Shipping Outside of the United States. Edited by Terry McCoy, With an Introduction by William Kennedy and Epilogue Interview with Fidel Castro by the Late Arthur Miller
• Molly Ivins' Last Book (Just Released Posthumously) "Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights" (Hardcover) By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
• Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Paperback) By Peter Phillips (Editor), Andrew Roth (Editor), Project Censored (Editor), John Jonik (Illustrator), Dennis Loo (Introduction)
• A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Hardcover) By Edward J. Larson
• Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate (Hardcover) By Susan Estrich
• The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (Hardcover) By Susan Faludi
• Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision (Hardcover) By Thom Hartmann
• The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party (Hardcover) By Bruce Miroff
• An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood (Paperback) By Jimmy Carter
• Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (Paperback) By Todd Gitlin
• In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire (Paperback) By Mike Davis
• The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Hardcover) By Greg Anrig
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition (Paperback) By David Bornstein
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Hardcover) By John Bowe
• It's Getting Ugly out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Destroying America (Hardcover) By Jack Cafferty
• Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (Hardcover) By Norman Solomon
• The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Hardcover) By James Lee Burke
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover) By Naomi Klein
• Bill Clinton's "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World" (Hardcover) Bill Clinton
• The Hidden Persuaders (Paperback Republication) Vance Packard
• Paul Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal" (Hardcover) By Paul Krugman
• The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword) By Tom Engelhardt
• The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR (Paperback) By Jules Archer
• God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (Hardcover) Hanna Rosin
• The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed (Hardcover) by Marilyn W. Thompson
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning George Monbiot
• 2008 Peace Calendar (for Wall)
• Propaganda (Paperback) By Edward L. Bernays, With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller
• Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (Hardcover) by David Cole and Jules Lobel
• Feingold: A New Democratic Party (Hardcover) By Sanford D. Horwitt
• Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue (Hardcover) By Stephanie Mencimer
• Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (Paperback) By Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry
• Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (Paperback) Edited by Russ Kick
• Thom Hartmann's The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight -- Revised and Updated -- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late (Paperback) Thom Hartmann
• No Place to Hide (Paperback) By Robert O'Harrow
• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (Hardcover) Max Wallace
• The World Without Us (Hardcover) Alan Weisman
• Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food (Paperback) Andrew Kimbrell
• "The Trap": Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker Book of the Month" Review for BuzzFlash.com Daniel Brook
• Death as a Way of Life: From Oslo to the Geneva Agreement (Paperback) Israeli Novelist David Grossman
• AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (Hardcover) by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer
• The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover) By Peter Singer and Jim Mason
• Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (Paperback) Stephen Duncombe
• You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression (Paperback) Matthew Rothschild
• A Mighty Heart: Original Audio Book. The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl. (5 CDs) Read by Mariane Pearl. Mariane Pearl
• Who's Watching You? (Paperback) Mike Farren and John Gibbs
• Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War (Hardcover) By Joe Bageant
• Glenn Greenwald: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Hardcover) Glenn Greenwald
• Bush on the Couch (hardcover) Justin Frank, M.D.
• Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Paperback) By Stephen Marshall
• Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports (Paperback) By David Zirin
• Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Paperback Edition) By Thom Hartmann, With New Afterword by Greg Palast. Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (Hardcover) By Social Psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
• Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (DVD)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback) By Hunter S. Thompson
• Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback) Elizabeth Gilbert
• Blue Grit (Hardcover) Laura Flanders
• Political Low Roads: American Demagoguery and the Rise of the New Right (Paperback) By P.M. Carpenter
• What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America (Paperback) By Melissa Rossi
• With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military (Hardcover) Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay
• Some of My Best Friends (Paperback) Emily Bernard, Editor
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Hardcover) By Paul Hawken
• Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" (Hardcover) -- Now Shipping By Al Gore
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover) By Ishmael Beah
• Slaughter House Five: The Book (Paperback) The Late Kurt Vonnegut
• Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics (Paperback) Conversations with Howard Zinn
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover) By Bill McKibben
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback) By Barack Obama
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Hardcover) By Philip Zimbardo
• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Expanded Paperback Edition Greg Palast
• Bill Bradley's Latest Book: The New American Story (2007 Hardcover) Bill Bradley
• The Spirit of Family (Black and White Oversize Hardcover Documentary Photography Book) Edited by Al and Tipper Gore
• The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War By Dan Gilgoff
• Help at Any Cost (Hardcover) By Maia Szalavitz
• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (Hardcover) By Max Wallace
• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't (Hardcover) By Robert I. Sutton
• The Next Twenty-Five Years: The New Supreme Court and What it Means for Americans (Hardcover) By Martin Garbus
• The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love (Paperback) By Jane Goodall, Marc Bekoff
• Democracy's Little Self Help Book (Paperback)
• Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Hardcover Edition) By Cornel West
• Cannery Row: (Special Centennial Edition) (Paperback) John Steinbeck
• Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture (Hardcover) Gerry Spence
• The Future Dictionary of America (Hardcover with CD of Contemporary Recording Artists) More Than 200 Writers, Artists and Musicians
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover) By Harriet A. Washington
• A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (Paperback) By Howard Zinn
• The Sociopath Next Door (Paperback) and "WTF?" Bush Lemon Drops Martha Stout
• Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (Hardcover) by Frances Moore Lappe
• American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America (Hardcover) Chris Hedges
• Red State (DVD) Directed by Michael Shea
• Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover) Sam Harris
• Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy (Hardcover) By Joan Burbick
• Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Paperback) By Tom Engelhardt
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover) Barack Obama
• Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism (Hardcover) by Cindy Sheehan
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback) Howard Zinn
• Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not) (Paperback) Nomi Prins
• Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It (Hardcover) Thom Hartmann
• Conservatives Without Conscience (Hardcover) by John Dean
• Bushopedia: A Comprehensive Alphabetical Guide to George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Other Aspects of the Far Right, and Related Topics. by Bill Potts
• Neil Young - Heart of Gold (DVD) directed by Jonathan Demme
• Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (Hardcover) by Geoffrey Nunberg
• Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea (Hardcover) by George Lakoff
• In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq (Hardcover) by Nir Rosen
• Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire (Paperback) by Michael Standaert
• The Boys of Baraka (DVD)
• 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (And Bernard Goldberg is Only #73) (Paperback) by Jack Huberman
• F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare (Hardcover) by Sam Seder, Stephen Sherrill
• Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (Paperback) by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
• Planet of Slums (Hardcover) by Mike Davis
• Department of Homeland Decency: Decency Rules and Regulations Manual (Paperback) by Susan Fuller, Frank Fuller
• My Bad: The Apology Anthology (Hardcover) by Paul Slansky, Arleen Sorkin
• Why Mommy is a Democrat (Paperback) by Jeremy Zilber, illustrated by Yuliya Firsova
• A Man without a Country -- Kurt Vonnegut's Last Book Now in Paperback by Kurt Vonnegut
• Jesus Land, A Memoir (Hardcover) by Julia Scheeres
• Short Cut to Nirvana (DVD)
• They Thought They Were Free (Paperback) By Milton Mayer
• The Dictionary of Republicanisms (Paperback) by Katrina vanden Heuvel
• Born Into Brothels (DVD)
• Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Hardcover) by Jimmy Carter
• The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Hardcover) by William Easterly
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (DVD)
• Actions Speak Louder Than Bumper Stickers (Book) Edited by Olivia Greer and Aaron Rudenstine
• Citizen You!: Helping Your Government Help Itself (Paperback) by The Better Citizenship Bureau (Two Veterans of "The Onion" and a Film Producer)
• Vodka Lemon (DVD) Director: Hiner Saleem
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (DVD)
• Blue Vinyl: The World's First Toxic Comedy (DVD) Director: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand
• I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (Hardcover) by Margaret Cho
• Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (Paperback) by Charles Bowden
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster (Hardcover) by Michael Eric Dyson
• Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Hardcover) by James C. Cobb
• How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom Politics and the War on Sex (Hardcover) by Cristina Page
• Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness--Modern History from the Sports Desk (Hardcover) by Hunter S. Thompson
• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback) by John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor
• Crash (2-Disc Director's Cut Edition DVD) Winner Best Picture at the 2006 Academy Awards
• A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors (Hardcover) by Michael Berenbaum
• Paper Clips (DVD) 2 disc Special Edition
• The World (DVD) From China, a Film by Jia Zhangke
• Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods (Hardcover) by Michael Wex