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Beam Me Up, Jesus

A Heathen's Guide to the Rapture

By Jim Gerard


From Nostradamus to the Watchtower, prophets and scribes have been getting the date of the Rapture wrong. But who can now deny that the portents of the Second Coming are finally here? The bad news is that the Rapture has come and you've been Left Behind.

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101 People Who Are Really Screwing America

(And Bernard Goldberg is Only #73)

By Jack Huberman


From the bestselling author of The Bush-Hater's Handbook comes this hilarious riposte to Bernard Goldberg's absurd right-wing attack on American liberals. 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America names the real "crooks liars, and cheats" who undermine American democracy.

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Fair and Balanced, My Ass!

An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News

By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann


From the authors of Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reillycomes a hilarious skewering of America's number one cable news network.

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The Quotable Atheist

Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound

By Jack Huberman


A treasure trove of quotes and aphorisms by philosophers, scientists, poets, writers, artists, entertainers, and political figures.

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Dictionary of Republicanisms


By Katrina vanden Heuvel


Katrina vanden Heuvel, celebrated editor of The Nation, asked her readers to help decipher Republican doublespeak. The result is Dictionary of Republicanisms, a grassroots groundswell of hilarious submissions.

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Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror


By Terry Jones


Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror proves that in times of high political anxiety, humor and irony are most potent antidotes to the spin emanating from the White House and Downing Street. From the co-creator of Monty Python comes this bitingly hilarious collection of writing about the American and British responses to 9/11.

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Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants

A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals

By Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann


The team who brought us Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reillynow casts a satirical eye on the hilarious sex lives of the nation's small army of libidinous right-wing scolds.
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The GOP-Hater's Handbook

378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again

By Jack Huberman


From the author of the bestselling Bush-Hater's Handbook, and in time for the 2008 election, here comes Jack Huberman's latest foray into the dark side of right-wing politics.
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Who Moved My Secret?

The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy

By Jim Gerard


From the author of Beam Me Up Jesus comes this hilarious parody of the self-help books that have made millions off the misery of the masses.
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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