nationbooksprojectofnation

Books on Environment

bookone

more

Buy It Online
  Amazon >
  IndieBound.org >
  Powells.com >

Unsustainable

How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity

By Eamonn Fingleton


When financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton anticipated the meltdown of the New Economy in the late 1990s, his predictions were dismissed by mainstream economic writers as "far-fetched." Now, with the New Economy in ruins and America mired in recession, Fingleton's contrarian take on mainstream ecomonic thinking seems ever more prescient.

bookone

more

Buy It Online
  Amazon >
  Barnes & Noble >
  IndieBound.org >
  Powells.com >

Blood of the Earth

The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources

By Dilip Hiro


This vivid history of oil--and the way it revolutionized civilian life, war, and world politics--sets the stage for the coming oil wars of the 21st Century.

In a recent edition of Yale Global Online, Dilip Hiro explains why playing the oil card only goes so far in international diplomacy. Read it here.
bookone

more

Buy It Online
  Amazon >
  Barnes & Noble >
  IndieBound.org >
  Powells.com >

The Ten Minute Activist

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective


What if making a difference only required ten minutes of our time every day?

bookone

more

Buy It Online
  Amazon >
  Barnes & Noble >
  IndieBound.org >
  Powells.com >

Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

By Michele Simon


This book exposes the hypocrisy of major food companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds, that are staging massive PR campaigns to look like they are "part of the solution" while they simultaneously lobby against sound nutrition policies.

bookone

more

Buy It Online
  Amazon >
  Barnes & Noble >
  IndieBound.org >
  Powells.com >

Blackout

How the Electric Industry Exploits America

By Gordon L. Weil


Ever since Thomas Edison created the first electrical utility, the energy industry has cheated American customers with impunity. Blackout delves into the history of this increasingly monopolized--and corrupt--industry.

signup

for our FREE e-mail newsletter, a monthly dispatch of events, excerpts, commentary by Nation Books and Nation Institute writers.



Deborah Stone's Book Tour

July 7 - November 2 | Across the United States
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here.

August 25 | 6 pm
Bruce Mau Leads Green Symposium
(Denver, Colorado)
Institute Fellow Bruce Mau will lead the Green Constitutional Congress Symposium, which will cover a wide array of green-related topics. The symposium will take place at Buell Theater in Denver; it is produced by the Rhode Island School of Design and University of Colorado-Denver. The symposium is part of the larger event, Dialog:City at the DNC. For more information, click here. MORE

September 13
2008 ELECTION: What's Really at Stake?
(Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square, NYC)
Come listen to Institute Fellows Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill (also a Nation Books author of Blackwater) speak at a benefit for The Indypendent newspaper at Cooper Union Auditorium in New York City. Additional panelists to be announced; meet the speakers at a special pre-event reception. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit indypendent.org or call (212)-221-0521. MORE