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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Abortion in the United States	Dorothy E. McBride	Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook offers a balanced, objective look at the ultimate iwedgei issue in American culture. This volume offers a revealing history of abortion politics an…	OL10410090W
In the land of invisible women	Qanta Ahmed	The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in mot…	OL11902918W
Illegal people	David Bacon	For two decades photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon exposes the many ways globalization uproots people…	OL11914365W
The Nine	Jeffrey Toobin	Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people wh…	OL119176W
The corpse walker	Yiwu Liao	The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one…	OL12023234W
Energy use worldwide	Zachary Smith,Jaina Moan,Jaina L. Moan	Global energy needs have increased dramatically over the past 100 years, and they will continue to increase, creating energy, environmental, and social crises. Can we solve this problem?The first ste…	OL12255114W
Heavy metal Islam	Mark LeVine	"We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal."--Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene"Music is the weapon of the future."--Fela KutiAn eighteen-year-old Moroccan …	OL12376852W
Network power	David Singh Grewal	For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; fo…	OL12479760W
Every vote counts	Chris Katsaropoulos	The 2000 Presidential election was decided by a margin of only 269 votes, but nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a ballot. This year, don't sit on the sidelines - make your voice hear…	OL133444W
Jag dör, men minnet lever	Henning Mankell	A powerful, moving and tragic account of the families shattered and children abandoned as a result of the spread of HIV and, through the Memory Books project, a hope for the future. Henning Mankel…	OL13629224W
Idiot America	Charles P. Pierce	The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have WonA veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.In the midst of a career-l…	OL13647053W
The cell	John Miller	ABC’s John Miller has been tracking this story since his coverage of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He was the first American journalist to interview Osama bin Laden. He has a sophis…	OL13733794W
Rhetoric for radicals	Jason Del Gandio	Radicals have important messages to deliver, but they are often so caught up in the passion of their causes that they lose sight of effective communication-which is their most powerful tool. The abil…	OL13763777W
Enough	Roger Thurow	For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the “Green Revolution” succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. …	OL13773452W
Renegade	Richard Wolffe	Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling t…	OL13815959W
Black hearts	Jim Frederick	This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called …	OL13856590W
Long time leaving	Roy Blount Jr.	"I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I'm pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents' people are deep Southern from many genera…	OL14852825W
The last best hope	Joe Scarborough	In this groundbreaking book, Joe Scarborough tells Republican Party bosses what they don't want to hear, explains why Democrats are making matters so much worse, and then shows leaders of both partie…	OL14932757W
Belching Out the Devil	Mark Thomas	A dangerously entertaining trip with Mark Thomas in search of the real story behind Coca-ColaCoca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. It is a company tha…	OL14961191W
In the President's Secret Service	Ronald Kessler	Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Af…	OL14993740W