The internet as we have come to know it is under threat. A new bill in Congress would convert the internet into a three-tier system where you must pay to play. Large cable outfits and phone companies could slow down small non-paying sites and speed up paying sites. That favorite blog, newspaper, or fan site that you like to read could be slowed down to the point where you won't be able to see it (translation: eliminated).

Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign.
— from www.savetheinternet.com

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (Hardcover) Retail Price: $21.95 Our Price: $18.66 — save 15%! Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that our leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings?
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A Black Way of Seeing by Paul Robeson Jr. (Hardcover) Retail Price: $23.95 Our Price: $20.36 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

“The language of the Declaration of Independence could not have used the word freedom without directly confronting the issue of slavery as the ultimate denial of liberty,” writes Paul Robeson, Jr., in the opening pages of this powerful and forward-looking indictment of contemporary American politics.

Thereafter, Robeson writes, “liberty meant the privileges to which the elite minority was entitled.” And as for freedom, we are still waiting for it.
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The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs Foreword by Bono (Trade Paperback) Retail Price: $16.00 Our Price: $13.60 — save 15%! Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Jeffrey Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." By drawing on everything he has learned, Jeffrey Sachs offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.
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Armed Madhouse Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind ... by Greg Palast (Hardcover) Retail Price: $25.95 Our Price: $22.06 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Palast's old-style gum-shoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporter's new book. Armed Madhouse is illustrated with dozens of documents marked "secret" and "confidential" that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands.

The "top journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches - hanging out the dirty underpants of the "armed and dangerous clowns that rule us."
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New News Out of Africa Uncovering Africa's Renaissance by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Hardcover) Retail Price: $23.00 Our Price: $19.55 — save 15%! Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault was until recently the Johannesburg Bureau Chief for CNN. In New News Out of Africa, this eminent reporter offers a fresh and surprisingly optimistic assessment of modern Africa, revealing that there is more to the continent than the bad news of disease, disaster, and despair.
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Fortunate Son A Novel by Walter Mosley Retail Price: $ (Hardcover) Retail Price: $23.95 Our Price: $20.36 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley's novel about two boys, one ensconced in a life of privilege and the other in a life of hardship, explores the true meaning of fortune. In a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.
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The Whale Caller A Novel by Zakes Mda (Hardcover) Retail Price: $23.00 Our Price: $19.55 — save 15%! Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

The Whale Caller, Zakes Mda's fifth novel, is his most enchanting and accessible book yet-a romantic comedy of sorts in which the changing face of post-apartheid South Africa is revealed through prodigious, lyrical storytelling.

As the novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus, on the country's west coast, is overrun with whale watchers-foreign tourists wearing floral shirts and toting expensive binoculars, determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the Whale Caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he calls Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the Whale Caller frets like a jealous lover-oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him.
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