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In the spirit of "Freakonomics" and "A Short History of Progress, " "The Future of Everything" is a compelling, elegantly written history of our future

The untold story of the making of Johnny Cashs most controversial album, Bitter Tears

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Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that the stranger shoots her dead? In Jumping at Shadows, Sasha Abramsky sets his sights on America's most dangerous epidemic: irrational...

A rising star in progressive journalism presents a deeply-reported exploration of the political and social movements that have arisen since the 2008 financial crisis, revealing how ordinary Americans across political beliefs struggle for change, and charting the effectiveness of new forms of resistance.

In the wake of the Citizen's United decision, elections will be controlled by moneyed interests as never before. award-winning authors John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney show what this influx of cash with zero transparency means for democracy-and how we can fix the system before it's too late.

In the vein of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, " Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Hedges and American Book Award-winning cartoonist Sacco bring a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America.

A journalist draws on her unprecedented four years of unlimited access to one of the nation's most diverse public schools as it struggles against closure, defies standardization and broken government prescriptions, and comes up with new approaches to education that have the potential to improve all American schools.

This unprecedented and unwavering history of the Supreme Court- told through the eyes of people who have suffered the most as a result of its judgements- shows how its decisions have consistently favoured the moneyed and powerful, from Reconstruction to the present day.

An explosive expose into the radical right-wing state of Israeli politics from one of our most controversial investigative reporters and the bestselling author of Republican Gomorrah.