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  • Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide

    How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

    Edited by Karl Weber, Participant ...
    Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Food, Inc. 2

    Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food

    Edited by Karl Weber, Participant ...
    An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself, and an essential companion to the documentary.America’s food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In Food, Inc. 2, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists explain how we can create a hopeful new future for food—if we have the courage to seize the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""

    How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools

    by Participant ...
    Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fill -- and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them. Educators, parents, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Place at the Table

    The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It

    by Participant ...
    Forty-nine million people -- including one in four children -- go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines of solving hunger in America, including:Jeff Bridges, Academy Award-winning actor, cofounder ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Last Call at the Oasis

    The Global Water Crisis and Where We Go from Here

    by Participant ...
    "If there was a price placed on clean water we might start treating it like it has value. Maybe when it's gone we'll realize we can't drink oil or money." -- Dave MatthewsLess than 1 percent of the world's water is fresh and potable -- and no more will ever be available. Thanks to pollution, global warming, and population growth, water access is poised to become today's most explosive global issue ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Page One

    Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism

    The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference between an opinion column and a blog, a reporter and a social networker? Who curates the news, or should it be streamed unimpeded by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species

    Participant Second Book Project

    Edited by Karl Weber, Participant ...
    What does an unusually large, ugly, invasive species of toad have to do with global warming, international trade, and the survival of biodiversity? Quite a lot, actually. Mark Lewis's amazing and hilarious documentary Cane Toads tells the story of Bufo marinus, which was introduced to Australia in 1935 to control bugs but which quickly became a far greater menace than the beetles they eat. Today ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lincoln

    A President for the Ages

    by Participant ...
    The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln -- in his time America's most admired and reviled leader, and still our nation's most enigmatic and captivating hero.Timed to complement the new motion picture ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oceans

    The Threats to Our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide

    Edited by Jon Bowermaster, Participant ...
    This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it.More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to understand why it is called Planet Earth rather than Planet Ocean. Since half the world's human population lives within a stone's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Listening Is an Act of Love

    A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project

    by Dave Isay ...

    Abridged

    54 min

    From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps—the largest oral history project in the nation's history—presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them ... Read more

    $7.50 USD

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    Underground Airlines

    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and AmazonA young black man calling himself Victor has struck a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Trigger Warning

    Short Fictions and Disturbances

    by Neil Gaiman ...
    Narrated by Neil Gaiman ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new collection, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD