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	"Stupidity" [Téléfilm Canada 2003] Co-produced & directed by Albert Nerenberg; extras include uncut interviews with Noam Chomsky, Giancarlo Livraghi, Bill Maher, director Albert Nerenberg, Avital Ronell & director Joel Schumacher Disinformation color DVD [7/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools For All Students" [2006] by Paul F. Cummins Red Hen Press 9x6 pb [11/2006] for $18.95
	"Dewey's Dream: Universities & Democracies In An Age of Education Reform - Civil Society, Public Schools & Democratic Citizenship" [2007] by Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy & John Puckett Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2007] for $18.95 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2007] for $59.50
	"Gifted Children and Gifted Education: A Handbook For Teachers & Parents" [2006] by Gary A. Davis Great Potential Press 9x5¾ pb [9/2006] for $21.75
	"Learning Power: Organizing For Education & Justice" [2006] by Jeannie Oakes & John Rogers, with Martin Lipton Teachers College Press 9x6½ pb [3/2006] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $44.00
	"The Shame of The Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling In America" [2005] by Jonathan Kozol winner 2005 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.17 Crown 9¾x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.50 Random House ABR audio CD [9/2005] for $21.26
	"University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education" [2005] by Jennifer Washburn Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $12.71 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $18.98
	"No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children & What Society Owes Parents" [2004] by Anne L. Alstott Oxford Univ Press pb [11/2005] for $18.95 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $10.68
	"Seeing Past Z: Imagination In A Fast-Forward World" [2004] by Beth Kephart W.W. Norton 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] for $16.29
	"Genius Denied: How To Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds" [2004] by Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam S&S 8½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.40 S&S 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $16.32 official booksite
	"Stupidity and Tears: Teaching & Learning In Troubled Times" [2004] by Herbert Kohl "Kohl's latest will be required reading for progressive-minded teaching professionals and [is] recommended to everyone else concerned." — Publishers Weekly New Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $16.07
	"No Excuses: Closing The Racial Gap In Learning" [2003] by Stephan & Abigail Thernstrom "remorseless lucidity ... trademark thoroughness and empirical rigor" — James Traub, Los Angeles Times Book Review S&S 9x6 pb [10/2004] for $10.20 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2003] for $16.38
	"City Schools and The American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education" [2003] by Pedro Noguera, edited by James A. Banks Teachers College Press 9x6¼ pb [9/2003] for $19.95 Teachers College Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2003] for $50.00
	"The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering The Successful Student In Every Child" [2003] by Ron Clark [winner Disney Teacher of the Year Award 2001] Hyperion 7.8x5¼ hardcover [5/2003] for $11.97 Hyperion audio CD [10/2003] for $13.99 author website
	"Universities In The Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education" [2003] by Derek Curtis Bok {former president of Harvard University} Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [11/2004] for $11.53 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/used
	"Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative" [2001] by Sir Ken Robinson Wiley/Capstone 9¼x6¼ pb [6/2001] for $16.47 Capstone pb [4/2001] for £11.19 via Amazon U.K.
	"The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America" [2000] by Peter Smith Jossey-Bass/Anker 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $38.00

"An Identification, Analysis & Critique of Thorstein B. Veblen's
Philosophy of Higher Education" [1998]
by Samuel Schneider
Edwin Mellen Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $91.94
Veblen Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

	"Guerrilla Warfare For Teachers: A Survival Guide" [1996] by Evan Keliher Pedagogue Press 9x5½ pb [4/96] for $9.95
	"The Closing of The American Mind" [1988 bestseller] by Allan Bloom Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [5/88] for $14.00 Blackstone UNABR audio [1/93] for $76.95
	"Teaching As A Subversive Activity" [1969] by Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods – with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Delacorte 8½x5½ pb [9/71] for $15.00 Doubleday hardcover [6/69] out of print/used
	"Personal Knowledge: Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy" [1958] by Michael Polanyi [1891-1976] Polanyi's subjectivistic interpretation of scientific method exemplifies the failure of modern education – his logic is lucid but his conclusions faulty, largely due to his belief that all knowledge is faith-based. DO NOT buy this book!! Polanyi Society at Missouri Western State College
	"Experience and Education" [1938 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] Late in his career, Dewey wrote this summary of his ideas, that the best, progressive education provides balanced and informed experience for the students. Free Press mass market pb [7/97] for $8.95 Kappa Delta Pi 7½x6 pb [11/98] for $19.99 Peter Smith Publr 7x4¾ hardcover [9/83] for $26.75
	"The Goose Step: A Study of American Education" [1923] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] "a scathing attack on business domination of education" Kessinger 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $25.71
	"The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On The Conduct of Universities By Business Men" [1918] by Thorstein B. Veblen Transaction Publrs pb [11/92] for $24.95 Veblen Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
	"Democracy and Education" [1916 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] For Dewey, democracy and education were both the means and end for the building of a good and just progressive society. Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $9.49 Dover 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.36 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/97] for $16.95

Global Warming & Climate

	"Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing The   World" [2007] by Gary Braasch Univ CA Press 10x8½ hardcover [10/2007] for $23.07
	"Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - Working   Group I Contribution To The Fourth Assessment Report of The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change" [2007] Cambridge Univ Press 11x8½ pb [9/2007] for $78.90 Cambridge Univ Press 11x8¾ hardcover [9/2007] for $155.00 this is the outfit that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Al Gore, Jr.
	"Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking Action   In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40
	"Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates By Country" [2007] by William R. Cline Peterson Institute 8¾x6 pb [6/2007] for $14.93
	"The Economics of Global Warming" [1992] by William R. Cline Institute for Intl. Economics 9x6 pb [9/92] for $25.00 New York Univ Press hardcover [1/92] out of print/used
	"The 11th Hour" documentary [Warner Independent Aug 2007]   Co-written & co-directed by Nadia Conners & Leila Conners Petersen; co-produced, co-written & hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio; footage includes Mikhail Gorbachev, Thom Hartmann, Stephen Hawking & Bill McKibben video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash}
	"Heat: How To Stop The Planet From Burning" [2007]   by George Monbiot South End Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2007] for $14.96
	"With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points In Climate Change" [2007] by Fred Pearce Beacon Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $16.47
	"Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years" [2007] by S. Fred Singer & Dennis T. Avery BUNK! – do not buy this book
	"Hell and High Water: Global Warming, The Solution & The Politics – and What We Should Do" [2006] by Joseph Romm Wm. Morrow 8¼x5½ hardcover [12/2006] for $16.47 author's website 'Climate Progress'
	"Field Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature & Climate Change" [2006] by {former New York Times reporter} Elizabeth Kolbert Bloomsbury pb [12/2006] for $11.16 Bloomsbury 8½x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $15.61
	"Climate Change: Turning Up The Heat" [2006] by A. Barrie Pittock Earthscan 9x6 pb [3/2006] for $23.10
	"Global Warming: The Signs & The Science" [P.B.S. 2005] Hosted by Alanis Morissette P.B.S. color DVD [1/2006] for $21.99 P.B.S. color VHS [1/2006] out of prodn/rare no listing at IMDb
	"An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming & What We Can Do About It" [2006] by Al Gore, Jr. Rodale 9x8 pb [5/2006] for $13.17
	"An Inconvenient Truth" documentary feature film [Paramount Classics May 2006] Directed by Davis Guggenheim "I did a funny thing when I came home after seeing 'An Inconvenient Truth'. I went around the house turning off the lights." — movie reviewer Roger Ebert Paramount color DVD with update [11/2006] for $16.87 full credits at IMDb; official movie site M.T.V. 1/2-hr special [air-date 26 May 2006]
	"The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing The Climate & What It Means For Life On Earth" [2006] by Tim Flannery Atlantic Monthly Press 9x6½ pb [3/2006] for $15.60 Recorded Books audio CD [3/2006] for $22.04 official booksite
	"The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather & The Destruction of Civilizations" [2006] by Eugene Linden S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $16.38 author's website
	"National Geographic's Strange Days On Planet Earth" [airdate April 2005] Directed by Mark Shelley; hosted by Edward Norton National Geographic color DVD [4/2005] 2 disks for $27.99 full credits at IMDb PBS official program site
	"Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming By Scientists, Politicians & The Media" [2004] by Patrick J. Michaels (of the Cato Institute) wrong-headed 'refutation' of scientific evidence - do not buy this book
	"The Discovery of Global Warming" [2003] by Spencer R. Weart Harvard Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/2004] for $10.17 Harvard Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2003] for $17.46
	"Our Final Hour – A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, & Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century – On Earth & Beyond" [2003] by Sir Martin Rees [Royal Astronomer of Great Britain] Basic Books 9½x6 pb [4/2004] for $10.50 Basic Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2003] for $17.50
	"Essential Science: Global Warming (A Beginner's Guide To Our Changing Climate)" [2002] by Fred Pearce Dorling Kindersley 7x5 pb [4/2002] for $6.95
	"Global Warming: The Complete Briefing" [1994] by John Houghton Cambridge Univ 8¾x7 pb [3rd ed 8/2004] for $36.15 Cambridge Univ Press 9¾x6¾ pb [2nd ed 9/97] for $26.25 Cambridge Univ 7x9¾ hardcover [3rd ed 8/2004] for $100.00 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [2nd ed 9/97] for $76.99
	"Earth In The Balance: Ecology & The Human Spirit" [1992] by Al Gore, Jr. Plume 8x5¼ pb [1/93] out of print/many used Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2000] for $17.68 Plume 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/92] out of print/many used Audio Literature ABR audio [5/2000] out of stock/used

Energy

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propaganda from the U.S. coal lobby

	"Winning The Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs & Security" [2004] Edited by Beatrice T. Aranow; articles by Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Jonathan G. Koomey, Nathan J. Glasgow & others Rocky Mountain Institute 10¾x8¼ pb [9/2004] for $38.00 Rocky Mountain Institute 11x8½ pb [1/2004] out of print/used official booksite
	"Over A Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence"   [2007] by John S. Duffield Stanford Law & Politics hardcover [10/2007] for $18.45
	"Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy"   [2007] by Jay Inslee & Bracken Hendricks Island Press hardcover [10/2007] for $17.13
	"Discovery!: The Search for Arabian Oil" [2007]   by Wallace Stegner written on-hire for Aramco; finished & rejected in 1956; published only in Lebanon in 1971; 'reissued' in 2007, with a Foreword by Thomas W. Lippman Selwa Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.47
	"Moving Mountains: How One Woman & Her Community   Won Justice From Big Coal" [2007] by Penny Loeb Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $18.45
	"The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil & Money" [2004] by Dan Briody Wiley & Sons 8½x5½ pb [12/2005] for $13.22 Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [5/2004] for $24.95
	"Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case For Renewable Energy" [2007] by Hermann Scheer Earthscan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2007] for $19.77
	"A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" documentary [indep 2006] Co-produced & co-directed by Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb official movie site
	"Blood of The Earth: The Battle For The World's Vanishing Oil Resources" [2006] by Dilip Hiro Nation Books 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $10.85
	"Energy Switch: Proven Solutions For A Renewable Future" [2006] by Craig Morris New Society Publrs 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $13.22
	"A Thousand Barrels A Second: The Coming Oil Break Point & The Challenges Facing An Energy Dependent World" [2006] by Peter Tertzakian McGraw-Hill 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $17.61
	"Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage" [2001] by Kenneth S. Deffeyes Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [8/2003] for $11.02 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $35.00 official Hubbert Peak website
	"Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert's Peak" [2005] by Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill & Wang 8x6½ pb [6/2006] for $10.01 Hill & Wang 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $15.60 official Hubbert Peak website
	"Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future" [2006] by Jeff Goodell Houghton Mifflin pb [4/2007] for $10.17 Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¾ hardcover [6/2006] for $17.13
	"Twilight In The Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock & The World Economy" [2005] by Matthew R. Simmons Wiley 9x6 pb [6/2006] for $11.53 Wiley 9½x6 hardcover [6/2005] for $16.47
	"The Oil Age Is Over: What To Expect As The World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050" [2005] by Matthew David Savinar self-published pb [4/2005] for $15.00 author's website
	"Oil Addiction: The World In Peril" [2004] by Pierre Chomat, translated by Pamela Gilbert-Snyder Universal Publrs 8½x5½ pb [11/2004] for $17.95
	"The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & The Collapse of The American Dream" [2004 documentary feature film] Written & directed by Gregory Greene Electric Wallpaper color DVD [5/2004] out of stock at Amazon official website: purchase DVD full credits from IMDb
	"The End of Oil: On The Edge of A Perilous New World" [2004] by Paul Roberts Mariner 8½x5½ pb [4/2005] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin 9.4x6.4 hardcover [5/2004] for $17.68
	"Out of Gas: The End of The Age of Oil" [2004] by David Goodstein [of Cal Tech] W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [2/2005] for $11.16 W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [2/2004] for $14.93
	"The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact & Fiction In The Race To Save The Climate" [2004] by Joseph J. Romm Island Press 9&fracx6¼ hardcover [2/2004] for $17.00 National Academy of Sciences article/excerpt {in HTML} [3/2004] for $5.95 author's website 'Climate Progress'
	"Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum" [2004] by Francisco Parra (former Secretary General of OPEC) I.B.Tauris 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $60.28
	"The Smartest Guys In The Room: The Amazing Rise & Scandalous Fall of Enron" [2003] by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind Portfolio 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $10.88 Portfolio 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $17.79 "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" [docu feature April 2005] Co-written & directed by Alex Gibney; based on the book Magnolia color DVD [1/2006] for $13.76 full credits from IMDb; official movie website  [requires Flash]
	"The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Politics of Oil" [2003] by Lita Epstein, C.D. Jaco & Julianne C. Iwersen-Neiman Alpha Books pb [11/2003] for $12.89
	"Power Play: The Twentieth-Century Struggle Over Electricity" [2003] by Sharon Beder "Deeply alarming ... Couldn't be timelier, particularly for Californians." — Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times New Press 9½x6¼ [8/2003] for $18.17
	"The Party's Over: Oil, War & The Fate of Industrial Societies" [2003] by Richard Heinberg New Society 9x6¼ pb [6/2005] for $12.21 New Society 9x6 pb [4/2003] out of print/used S.E.R. hardcover [4/2003] out of print/used
	"Coal: A Human History" [2003] by Barbara Freese Penguin 7x5¼ pb [1/2004] for $11.20 Perseus Books 8½x6¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $18.25
	"The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of The Worldwide Energy Web & The Redistribution of Power On Earth" [2002] by Jeremy Rifkin "Recommended." — Time Magazine Green Century Special Issue Tarcher Putnam 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $17.47
	"The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power" [1991] by Daniel Yergin bestseller & winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize Free Press 9½x6 pb [1/93] for $14.96 Pocket 9x6 pb [12/91] out of print/used S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [1/91] out of print/used
	"The Prize" P.B.S. 8-part mini-series [1992] Narration by Donald Sutherland Home Vision color video [6/2000] 4 tape set; out of stock/used
	"Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War" [1981] by Paul Wellstone & Barry M. Casper Univ MN Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/2003] for $17.95 Univ MA Press hardcover [2/81] out of print/used
	"The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy & The Public Interest" [1977 classic] by Robert Engler Univ of Chicago Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/77] out of print/used

Health Care

section started in July 2007

	"The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance For All   Americans" [2007] by Laurence J. Kotlikoff M.I.T. Press 8x5½ hardcover [10/2007] for $12.21
	"Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and The Consumer-Driven Cure" [2007] by Regina Herzlinger McGraw-Hill 9x6¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $16.47
	”Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and The People Who Pay The Price” [2007] by Jonathan Cohn Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [DUE April 2008] pre-order for $10.17   HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $17.13
	"How Doctors Think" [2007] by Jerome Groopman, MD Mariner Books pb [DUE March 2008] for $10.85   Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $15.60
	”The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” [2006] by David Gratzer "A must read for all students of health care policy." — Milton Friedman Encounter Books 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $17.13
	"Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business - and Bad Medicine" [2004] by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele Broadway Books 7¾x5¼ pb [10/2005] for $10.17 Doubleday 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] out of print/used
	”Lives At Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around The World” [2004] by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave & Devon M. Herrick Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $26.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 hardcover [8/2004] for $85.00
	"The Great Influenza: The Story of The Deadliest Pandemic In History" [2004] New York Times bestseller by John M. Barry Penguin 8½x5½ pb [10/2005] for $11.56 Viking 9x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $29.95 the paperback has an Afterword on avian flu
	"America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918" [1997] by Alfred W. Crosby listed in Los Angeles Times 100 Most Important Books of 1997 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [7/2003] for $22.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2003] for $64.40

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