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What if the questions are not the enemy of faith-but the beginning of it?We live in a world capable of extraordinary beauty and unbearable cruelty. Children suffer. Families grieve. Wars continue. Animals are abandoned. Good people experience devastating loss. And somewhere tonight, someone will look toward heaven and quietly ask the question humanity has wrestled with for generations:If there is a God, where is He?God: What If?...

What happens when political loyalty becomes more important than asking whether something is right?In 47: The Decay of the Union, Eric Bray takes an unflinching look at American politics through the eyes of an ordinary citizen who believed the promises, supported the movement, and then decided it was time to examine the receipts.This is not a book written from the safety of the political sidelines. Bray openly acknowledges where he stood, what he be...

Like a cross between Denis Johnson's Already Dead and David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Reap draws us into the hot, still air of a summer backwoods at whose fringes lurk danger and epiphany. Jessup Burke, a lonely, naive sixteen-year-old, has grown up without a father in a jobless, indifferent logging town. Out of high school a year early, he now bikes through the woods with his fishing gear, daydreaming of his sweetheart and their secret "home" in an abandoned farmhous...

Meet eight combat-injured men who sustained life-altering injuries. Hear eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstance. How these incredible men to reshape their lives after combat. It also sets these stories within the context of current veteran healthcare, and injury, suicide, and disability statistics, and looks briefly at the impacts on the caregivers who support these men.

A New York Times BestsellerA bold and compelling case for modern monetary theory and how it can help us build a more prosperous society, from the leading expert on the subject.**“Conversational, fierce, relentless.” —**Financial TimesMyths about deficits have long hobbled us as a country. Expanding healthcare coverage, creating new jobs, combatting climate change, ...

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic clarity and passion that have made him a central civi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs h...

“The most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.” —David Leonhardt, New York TimesEven as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who have revolutionized the stud...

The influential economist offers a persuasive strategy for a more just and sustainable economy—with a forward by Bernie Sanders.The New York Times has said that Jeffrey D. Sachs is "probably the most important economist in the world." Now, in a book that combines impassioned manifesto with a plan of action, Sachs charts a path to move America toward sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach to public policy that unifies econom...

From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who electe...

The independent congressman, presidential candidate, and activist shows young voters how to effect change in America—and the world.Throughout the Presidential campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders promised voters a future to believe in through his progressive platform and a vision for America worth fighting for. This vision calls for an economic, environmental, health care, and social justice revolution beyond the stagnant agendas of Democrat and Republican politicians t...

AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economyTaxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain wrong on the economy—wrong on jobs, wrong on the deficit, wrong on taxe...