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Books: Righteous Porkchop

Nicolette Hahn Niman's insider story of fighting factory farms from the courtroom to the marketplace.

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| Tue Mar. 31, 2009 11:29 AM PDT
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Books: Brush Cat

On trees, the wood economy, and the most dangerous job in America.

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| Thu Mar. 12, 2009 7:02 PM PDT
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The Purpose-Driven Wife

Teaching women to submit to their husbands, for the love of Christ.

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| Thu Mar. 5, 2009 5:18 PM PST
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Books: The Lottery Wars

Long odds, fast money, and the battle over an American institution.

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| Fri Feb. 27, 2009 7:49 PM PST

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Books: Picking Cotton

What happens when the justice system fails: A joint memoir by victim and wrongly accused.

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| Thu Feb. 26, 2009 7:39 PM PST
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Books: Blank Spots on the Map

Trevor Paglen on the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world.

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| Wed Feb. 18, 2009 4:19 PM PST
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Books: In Good We Trust

If we're hardwired to be selfish jerks, can we ever get beyond politics as usual?

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| Wed Feb. 4, 2009 1:00 AM PST
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Rosa Parks Didn't Act Alone: Meet Claudette Colvin

Montgomery's black leaders were spurred to take action by a 15-year-old girl.

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| Tue Jan. 20, 2009 1:32 PM PST
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Books: The Well-Dressed Ape

Are we naughty by nature? Science writer Hannah Holmes thinks so.

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| Fri Jan. 16, 2009 1:00 AM PST
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Books: Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl

By Susan Campbell. Beacon. $24.95.

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| Wed Jan. 7, 2009 1:00 AM PST

Conservative Publisher's New Book: "If There Had Been No Civil War, the South Would Have Abolished Slavery Peaceably"

Regnery Publishing, the home of such conservative stalwarts as Swift Boat Veteran John O'Neill (who wrote Unfit for Command,...

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| Tue Nov. 25, 2008 12:40 PM PST
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Book Review: The Narcotic Farm

Nancy Campbell documents the rise and fall of "Narco," America's first prison for drug addicts.

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| Thu Nov. 13, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Book review: Al' America

Jonathan Curiel travels through America's Arab and Islamic roots.

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| Thu Nov. 6, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Book Review: Remix

Should file sharing be safe, legal—and taxed? The Al Gore of the copyright muddle, Lawrence Lessig offers a fresh vision for making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy.

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| Thu Oct. 23, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: Whatever It Takes

Paul Tough on Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America.

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| Fri Sep. 5, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Sophie Uliano Is Gorgeously Green

Prius vs. Smart Car, ecofriendly yoga poses, and her one green sin.

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| Fri Sep. 5, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: Burmese Daze

French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle's Asian travelogue navigates culture shock with a keen eye.

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| Thu Sep. 4, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: Obscene in the Extreme

Rick Wartzman on the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i>.

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| Thu Sep. 4, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Who Is the Real Laura Bush?

In <i>American Wife</i>, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld fleshes out the interior life of our enigmatic first lady.

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| Wed Sep. 3, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: Babylon Rolling

Amanda Boyden reveals a slice of pre-Katrina New Orleans triumph and tension by illustrating a year in the lives of an Uptown street's inhabitants.

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| Fri Aug. 29, 2008 12:00 AM PDT