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For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers’ skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist…
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Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 government documents relating to abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces during the “war on terror,” brought to light…
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WHO KILLED CHE? HOW THE CIA GOT AWAY WITH MURDER By MICHAEL RATNER and MICHAEL STEVEN SMITH In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate…
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TWEETS FROM TAHRIR EGYPT’S REVOLUTION AS IT UNFOLDED, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT Edited by NADIA IDLE and ALEX NUNNS Foreword by AHDAF SOUEIF The Twitter accounts of the activists who…
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BOOKS NOW SHIPPING!! WHY SHOULD THE WRONG WING HAVE ALL THE FUN? “A tornado of a writer….a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson.” —The New York Times THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE…
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Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change
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Only at www.orbooks.com Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming,…
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OR Books celebrates the launch of Chris Lehmann's RICH PEOPLE THINGS at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. RICH PEOPLE THINGS is available at www.orbooks.com.
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ONLY AT OR BOOKS: The Autobiography of Jenny X by Lisa Dierbeck
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On the surface of things Nadia Orsini's life appears comfortable and unremarkable -- Ivy League educated, happily married to a doctor, a mother of three, and a moderately successful photographer.…
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Sarah Palin on Larry King Live Last Night - "Buy this book and burn it!"
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In a sensational appearance on Larry King Live last night, potential presidential hopeful Sarah Palin angrily denounced a controversial new book being published next week: At the Tea Party, edited…
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OR Books is one year old this week. In the past twelve months we've turned the publishing world on its head with a new, more effective way of doing business: producing meticulously edited and beautifully…
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Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
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Only at WWW.ORBOOKS.COM The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially…
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It’s never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one’s…
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