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No Greater Threat
America After September 11 and the Rise of a National Security State
No Greater Threat: America After September 11, and the Rise of a National Security State examines the prospect that America (with the Congress and the Executive Branch in the lead) may be transforming itself into a national security culture.

C. William Michaels Price range: $33.00 through $49.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Noise Wars
Compulsory Media and Our Loss of Autonomy
Robert Freedman looks at the role of media in society in a unique way by focusing exclusively on the emerging trend of audience captivity: the relocation of TV and other intrusive electronic media from our home, where we have personal control over…

Robert Freedman Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Nursing Homes Explained
This book will help readers understand more about gerontological nursing, how the different nursing specialties interact, and the necessity for multidisciplinary team approaches to improve systems in the industry.

Delia Franklin Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Of Herds and Hermits: America’s Lone Wolves and Submissive Sheep
The American Intellectual as Loner and Outcast
America is a country of characters, many of them larger than life, many of them shrinking from life, and many tenaciously asserting their individuality even as they succumb to the weight of life.

Terry Reed Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
On Awareness
A Collection of Philosophical Dialogues
The reader of this book is invited to enjoy a tasty feast of bite-sized philosophical dialogues. One reader might choose to enjoy a single dialogue at a time. Other readers might prefer to try a few at a time, in a ‘dim sum’? approach to thoughtful inquiry.

Nicholas J. Pappas Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Paradigm Lost
Learning and Literacy in the Digital Divide
Vicki Sapp’s first motivation to write this book comes from her perception that like herself, her colleagues were struggling, confused and overwhelmed by the changes in education attributable to the tech takeover.

Vicki J. Sapp Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Patterns of Bias in Hollywood Movies
Many groups within our multi-cultural society have complained over the years about negative and stereotypical portrayals of their own group members in motion pictures produced or released through the Hollywood-based motion picture studios.

John Cones Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Political Philosophy
The Narrow Path of Social Progress
While we might all love for everyone to get along, to help the needy, and for the wars to end, we need to explain how people can reach this point in their biological growth and development by promoting social progress.

Anthony C. Patton Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Race, Ethnicity and Crime
Melting pot or tossed salad? The U.S. criminal justice system may prove to be fueling intolerance rather than enabling society to accommodate racial and ethnic differences.

Dianne Williams Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance
While policies like SB 1070, Arizona’s now infamous immigration legislation, have raised issues of racial profiling and policing practices, there have been few detailed analyses of broader practices of racialization and racism at borders more extensively.

Jeff Shantz Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Restorative Justice
Prison as Hell or a Chance for Redemption
Part an explication of the idea of restorative justice and part the traumatic personal story of a young woman unfortunate enough to fall into the claws of the current US penal system, the book demonstrates through both logic and emotion that we, as…

Jennifer Furio Price range: $19.95 through $26.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Science vs. Religion
The Search for a Rational Approach
To understand the nature of reality, most people look to religion and science (faith and reason). This book examines both science and religion in some detail and from a variety of standpoints.

Guido O. Perez Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Slaves to Racism
An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia
Slaves to Racism is a unique cross-racial, cross cultural approach to racism from an insider/outsider viewpoint.

Benjamin and Anita Dennis Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Slouching Toward Tyranny
Mass Incarceration, Death Sentences and Racism
Working with death-row inmates in the killing ground of the South, Rev. Ingle lost over 20 people to the executioner in twelve years.

Joseph B. Ingle Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
So You’re an Atheist. Now What?
This book is not written for people who are questioning their faith; it doesn’t aim to deconvert anyone. Rather, this book is designed for atheists, especially those who have recently woken up to find their faith is gone.

Yuriy Nikshych Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Star Trek: A Psychoanalysis
Star Trek has much to say about the human condition, and reading this book renews and deepens our appreciation for the subtle aspects of each episode. What makes for an ideal society? When is war justified? How do we view diversity, tolerance, forgiveness?

Thomas H. Picard Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page