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The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Product Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense...read more

By Philip K. Howard

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9780783813615 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An attorney explains how a rule-bound government has promoted bureaucratic gridlock, created a litigious society, and become detrimental to intelligent decision making on the part of judges, industry, and government

9780679429944 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, January 1, 1995), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An attorney takes a critical approach to law, explaining how a rule-bound government has promoted bureaucratic gridlock, created a litigious society, and become detrimental to intelligent decision making on the part of judges, industry, and government

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9780812982749 | Random House Inc, May 3, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern.

9780446672283 | Grand Central Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In this attack on legal regulations and bureaucratic red tape, a corporate lawyer shows how rules interfere with common sense and have taken away citizens' power to make decisions

Doing Good Together: 101 Easy, Meaningful Service Projects for Families, Schools, and Communities

Product Description: Book with CD-RomSchools, workplaces, and organizations are hungry to get families involved in meaningful service opportunities and make an impact in the community. Doing Good Together answers the growing demand for family volunteerism with hands-on service projects focused on easing poverty, promoting literacy, supporting the troops, helping the environment, and more...read more

By Jenny Lynn Friedman and Jolene Roehlkepartain

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9781575423548 | 1 pap/cdr edition (Free Spirit Pub, August 1, 2010), cover price $24.99 | also contains Doing Good Together: 101 Easy, Meaningful Service Projects for Families, Schools, and Communities | About this edition: Book with CD-RomSchools, workplaces, and organizations are hungry to get families involved in meaningful service opportunities and make an impact in the community.

Doing Good Together: 101 Easy, Meaningful Service Projects for Families, Schools, and Communities

By Jolene Roehlkepartain

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Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution

An examination of the 1969 series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn provides a background of the mob-controlled Greenwich Village gay bar, the political and social elements that contributed to the riots, and the event's impact on subsequent attitudes. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By David Carter

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9780312200251 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An examination of the 1969 series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn provides a background of the mob-controlled Greenwich Village gay bar, the political and social elements that contributed to the riots, and the event's impact on subsequent attitudes.

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9780312342692 | Reprint edition (Griffin, June 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An examination of the 1969 series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn provides a background of the mob-controlled Greenwich Village gay bar, the political and social elements that contributed to the riots, and the event's impact on subsequent attitudes.

Promises Betrayed: Waking up from the American Dream

In this examination that probes the gap between American ideals and realities, the author makes the case that America has failed to live up to its creed of fairness and justice in the lives of people not among the powerful.

By Bob Herbert

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9780805078640 | Times Books, May 3, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In this examination that probes the gap between American ideals and realities, the author makes the case that America has failed to live up to its creed of fairness and justice in the lives of people not among the powerful.

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9780805080582 | Reprint edition (Times Books, January 24, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this examination that probes the gap between American ideals and realities, the author makes the case that America has failed to live up to its creed of fairness and justice in the lives of people not among the powerful.

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9781429900485 | Times Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System And Its Reform

Product Description: This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves and from those who recently left welfare for work: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues in raising their families, their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future, and some of the struggles they face as they try to leave the welfare system...read more

By Karen Seccombe

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9780205792160, titled "So You Think I Drive a Cadillac: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform" | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, February 5, 2010), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves and from those who recently left welfare for work: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues in raising their families, their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future, and some of the struggles they face as they try to leave the welfare system.

9780205487394 | 2 edition (Allyn & Bacon, February 1, 2006), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves and from those who recently left welfare for work: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues in raising their families, their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future, and some of the struggles they face as they try to leave the welfare system.

9780205283125, titled "So You Think I Drive a Cadillac: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform" | Allyn & Bacon, October 1, 1998, cover price $50.80 | About this edition: "Underneath the political rhetoric and welfare statistics are real live human beings who are trying to make sense out of their lives.

Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Product Description: First published in 1981, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY was quickly recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable living. Now-more than twenty years later and with many of the planet′s environmental stresses more urgent than ever-Duane Elgin has once again revised and updated his revolutionary book...read more

By Duane Elgin

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9780061779268 | 2 revised edition (Harpercollins, January 5, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: First published in 1981, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY was quickly recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable living.

9780688121198 | Rev sub edition (Quill, April 1, 1993), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Challenges the complexities of contemporary living by discussing a more simplistic lifestyle that is designed to change one's overall thinking and bring more inner rewards to one's life.

Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution

Product Description: Chronicles the political odyssey of an American activist from Christian liberal to marxist feminist

By Karen Garner

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9781558494046 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: When Maud Russell (1893–1989) first sailed for China in 1917, she traveled as one of a number of "foreign secretaries" dispatched by the YWCA to do "Woman's Work for Woman.

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9781558497542 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the political odyssey of an American activist from Christian liberal to marxist feminist

Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy

Product Description: Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike...read more

By Carol Nackenoff (editor)

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9780252034060 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, January 23, 2009), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy.

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9780252076121 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, December 23, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy.

Jane Addams: A Writer's Life

Product Description: Jane Addams, a Writer's Life is an expansive, revealing, and refreshing reexamination of the renowned reformer as an imaginative writer. Jane Addams is best known for her groundbreaking social work at Hull-House, the force of her efforts toward Progressive political and social reform, and the bravery of her commitment to pacifism, for which she received the Nobel Peace Prize...read more

By Katherine Joslin

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9780252076343 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, January 2, 2009), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Jane Addams, a Writer's Life is an expansive, revealing, and refreshing reexamination of the renowned reformer as an imaginative writer.

Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty

Product Description: In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to do something for their country. Thousands of young people answered his call, launching an era of flourishing social activism that eclipsed any in U.S. history...read more

By Thomas Kiffmeyer

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9780813125091 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 10, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In his inaugural address, President John F.

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9780813173085 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 10, 2008, cover price $40.00

Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America

Product Description: In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans the twentieth century, Karenna Gore Schiff tells the remarkable stories of nine influential women who each in her own way tackled inequity and advocated a change. These women recognized our country wasn't living up to its promise and fought to alter it...read more

By Karenna Gore Schiff

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9781401352189 | Miramax, February 1, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Provides a study of nine women who transformed modern America through their battle against inequity and social injustice, including Ida B.

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9781401360153 | Reprint edition (Miramax, February 14, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Provides a study of nine women who transformed modern America through their battle against inequity and social injustice, including Ida B.

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9781439560594 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans the twentieth century, Karenna Gore Schiff tells the remarkable stories of nine influential women who each in her own way tackled inequity and advocated a change.

Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change, Library Edition

Product Description: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system...read more

By George C. Halvorson and John J. Nance (narrator)

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9781423369660 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 20, 2008), cover price $102.25 | About this edition: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union

Product Description: This book is the first in-depth historical study of the forces that have contributed to the Teamsters’ troubled past as well as the various mechanisms the union has employed--from top-down directives to grass-roots measures--to combat the spread of corruption to which it has been especially vulnerable...read more

By David Scott Witwer

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9780252028250 | Univ of Illinois Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Almost since its creation at the close of the nineteenth century, the Teamsters Union has had recurring problems with corruption.

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9780252075131 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 10, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book is the first in-depth historical study of the forces that have contributed to the Teamsters’ troubled past as well as the various mechanisms the union has employed--from top-down directives to grass-roots measures--to combat the spread of corruption to which it has been especially vulnerable.

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability

Product Description: The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is more relevant and resonant than ever...read more

By Paul Hawken

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9780887306556 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A revolutionary program of restorative economics explains how businesses can change their methods and use their power and social responsibility to reconstruct and repair Earth's social, environmental, and commercial problems

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9780061252792 | Revised edition (Harperbusiness, October 26, 2010), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business.

9780887307041 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1994), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future.

Aristocracy, Temperance and Social Reform: The Life of Lady Henry Somerset

By Olwen Claire Niessen

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9781845114848 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 19, 2008, cover price $89.00

Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation

Product Description: This concise collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagreed with the government or majority opinion...read more

By Ralph F. Young

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9780205625895 | 1 concise edition (Longman Pub Group, February 15, 2008), cover price $23.20 | About this edition: This concise collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagreed with the government or majority opinion.

Dissent In America

Product Description: This collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagree with the government or majority opinion...read more

By Ralph F. Young

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9780321318756 | Longman Pub Group, August 23, 2004, cover price $95.87 | About this edition: This collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagree with the government or majority opinion.

9780321224514 | Longman Pub Group, August 23, 2004, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This collection of primary sources presents the story of U.

Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Joy to the Best Time of Your Life

The head of the AARP calls for members of the Baby Boom generation to use their political power, sense of social justice, and sheer numbers to transform the lives of all Americans for the better by changing the retirement years into ones filled with productivity, growth, and influence on every aspect of life. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

By Steve Case (foreword by), Bill Novelli and Boe Workman

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9780312354787 | Reprint edition (Griffin, December 26, 2007), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The head of the AARP calls for members of the Baby Boom generation to use their political power, sense of social justice, and sheer numbers to transform the lives of all Americans for the better by changing the retirement years into ones filled with productivity, growth, and influence on every aspect of life.

Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle

The co-author of the best-selling Affluenza explains how to profit by abandoning a consumer-driven lifestyle for a more sustainable existence, putting real financial benefits on developing a healthier lifestyle, increasing social networking opportunities, lowering energy costs, managing time, and promoting the natural environment. Original. 30,000 first printing.

By David Wann

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9780312361419 | Griffin, December 26, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The co-author of the best-selling Affluenza explains how to profit by abandoning a consumer-driven lifestyle for a more sustainable existence, putting real financial benefits on developing a healthier lifestyle, increasing social networking opportunities, lowering energy costs, managing time, and promoting the natural environment.

Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change

By George C. Halvorson

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9780787997526 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 17, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Examines the problems that exist throughout the current health care system and outlines basic changes that need to be made in order to provide safe, timely, and affordable health care for all Americans.

Miscellaneous:

9780787998394 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, December 10, 2007, cover price $27.95

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9781423369653 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 20, 2008), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

9781423369677 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 20, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

9781423369684 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 20, 2008), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

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9781423369646 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 20, 2008), cover price $97.25 | About this edition: The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

Shaking the System: What I Learned from the Great American Reform Movements

Product Description: Saving the environment. Helping the poor. Stopping abortion. Feeding the hungry. Increasing fair trade. Eliminating pornography. Ending racism. Thousands are active today seeking to make the world a better place. It is a great American tradition that goes back hundreds of years...read more

By Tim Stafford

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9780830834365 | Ivp Books, October 30, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Saving the environment.

Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

A biography of the woman who fought for birth control in America describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her affairs with H. G. Wells and Havelock Ellis, and her public role in the area of women's reproductive health. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Ellen Chesler

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9780671600884 | Summit Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A biography of the woman who fought for birth control in America describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, and her public role

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9781416540762 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 16, 2007), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A biography of the woman who fought for birth control in America describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her affairs with H.

9780385469807 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A biography of the women's rights activist describes her crusade to make contraceptives available to women, her struggles with the government and the Catholic church, and her personal life

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Product Description: Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world...read more

By Bill Clinton

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9780307266743 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 4, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the types of charitable work done by individuals and nonprofit organizations to demonstrate how anyone can make a difference in society through the life-changing act of giving.

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9780307386229 | Vintage Books, June 30, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action.

9780739368084 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, September 4, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the types of charitable work done by individuals and nonprofit organizations to demonstrate how anyone can make a difference in society through the life-changing act of giving.

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9781602522268 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, September 4, 2007), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action.

9780739374825 | Findaway World Llc, September 4, 2007, cover price $34.99

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9781846571206 | Gardners Books, September 13, 2007, cover price $29.85

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

Product Description: How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world...read more

By David Bornstein

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9780195138054 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 5, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Provides stories describing everyday people who cared enough to make a change in society, describing practices and qualities of these individuals and their organizations, and offering inspiration and hope for a better future.

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9780195334760 | Updated edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 17, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs.

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