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Title: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Author: Ken Wilber
A concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's world. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can be applied to real-world problems in areas such as politics, medicine, business, education, and the environment. Wilber also discusses daily practices that readers take up in order to apply this integrative vision to their own everyday lives.

Title: Bush at War
Author: Bob Woodward
Bush at War is a 2002 book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward recounting President George W. Bush's responses to the September 11 terrorist attacks and his administration's handling of the subsequent war in Afghanistan. It is an example of creative nonfiction.

Title: Capitalism and Freedom
Author: Milton Friedman
Capitalism and Freedom is written from the perspective of the United States. It was published nearly two decades after World War II, a time when the Great Depression was still in collective memory and the Cold War had just begun. Under the Kennedy and preceding Eisenhower administrations, federal expenditures were growing at a quick pace in the areas of national defence, social welfare and infrastructure...

Title: Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
Author: William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as property within the borders of the United States. The documents in this edition include excerpts from Brown's sources for the novel--fiction, political essays, sermons, and presidential proclamations; selections that illuminate the range of contemporary attitudes concerning race, slavery, and prejudice; and pieces that advocate various methods of resistance and reform.

Title: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich,  Deirdre English
In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous treatments and rest cures perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture--in education, in jobs, and in public life.

Title: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
The first novel by John Perkins is an expose into the underworld of a little known section of government activities which detrimentally affect native populations and the efficacy of democracies worldwide. Perkins tells about his own experience working for a private international consulting firm which advised the World Bank in efforts to fund huge loans for poor developing countries all around the globe.

Title: Culture Warrior
Author: Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a secular-progressive country. In this book he clearly fights the good fight for the soul of America.

Title: Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America
Author: David Vogel
Fluctuating Fortunes is a chronicle of business's political battles over the past three decades. It tells the story of the early victories of consumerists and environmentalists and the Fortune 500's ferocious and well-funded response during the 1970s and 1980s.

Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
A huge crime wave hit the United States in the 1990's and many experts were conservatively forecasting the end of the world, including President Clinton. James Alan Fox, who was commissioned to report on the situation to the Attorney General, predicted optimistically that crime would rise 15% over the next decade; pessimistically he predicted it would more than double. See what really happened.

Title: Globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job
Author: Bruce Greenwald
Most supporters and opponents of globalization accept as true certain key ideas that govern the terms of the debate. Globalization, they contend, is the single dominant force shaping the world’s economies both today and into the future; an irresistible and growing part of economic reality. They see the fates of business, labor, and entire nations all determined by their ability to adapt to its dictates.

Title: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Author: Ann Coulter
Conservative author Ann Coulter discusses how liberalism could be defined as a religion. She correlates how political beliefs are similar to religious beliefs, and could be construed as the same thing, depending on how someone explains and interprets them.

Title: Grey Eminence
Author: Aldous Huxley
is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu. He was also known as Father Joseph and as L'éminence grise; that phrase originally referred to du Tremblay.

Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Author: Noam Chomsky
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, published November 2003, is a book by Noam Chomsky, a macroscopic view of United States foreign policy from World War II to the post-Iraq War reconstruction. The central focus of the book (as with many of Chomsky's political works), is the examination of the United States' political, military and economic motives, in comparison —often in sharp contrast— to its outward rhetorical support for democracy, the Middle-East peace process, free trade, and human rights.

Title: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Author: Jimmy Carter
One of Jimmy Carter’s lifelong goals has been to find a way to create a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Carter has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, spoken with political leaders and ordinary citizens, and studied the underlying issues and concerns of Israel, Palestine, and the other Arab nations that neighbor both countries. In Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter explores the history of this volatile conflict, explains past attempts at peace, and suggests measures that need to be taken in order for any peace plan to succeed.

Title: Plan of Attack
Author: Bob Woodward
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush and his war council, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair and other allies, launched a pre-emptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes manoeuvring over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam.

Title: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Author: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the Africanist presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of America's literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree -- and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires.

Title: Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Author: Bob Woodward
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate is a 1999 book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, written with a narrative voice while utilizing firsthand interviews and news reports for its historical basis. For the 530-page book, Woodward used extensive notes and also interviewed President Ford, President Bush's chief of staff, John Becker, and other people of focus.

Title: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Author: Bob Woodward
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III is a book by Bob Woodward, originally due to be published October 2, 2006 (but unexpectedly released two days early by the publisher due to demand), that examines how the George W. Bush administration mismanaged the Iraq War after the 2003 invasion.

Title: The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
Author: Bob Woodward
A glimpse inside the White House during Clinton's first one hundred days of his presidency.
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Title: The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
In the book, The American Health Empire: Power, Profits and Politics, the authors write, the demand is to turn the medical system upside down, putting human care on top, placing research and education at its service, and putting profit-making aside. Ultimately, the growing movement of health care consumers does not want to consume health care at all, on any terms. They want to take it -- because they have to have it -- even if this means creating a wholly new American health care system.

Title: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author: Barack Obama
The junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was propelled to national prominence at the 2004 Democratic Convention when he delivered a rousing keynote address entitled “The Audacity of Hope.” In the less than 20 minutes it took to deliver the speech, Obama was catapulted to sudden fame, with many analysts predicting that he may be well-positioned to enter a future presidential race. In 2006, Obama released The Audacity of Hope, a book-length account that expands upon many of the same themes he originally addressed in the convention speech that bore the same title.

Title: The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
Author: Bob Woodward,  Scott Armstrong
The Brethren is a 1979 book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, which gives a nonfiction look behind the scenes of the United States Supreme Court during Earl Warren's latter years and Warren Burger's early years as Chief Justice of the United States.

Title: The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won
Author: Bob Woodward
The Choice is Bob Woodward's classic story of the quest for power, focusing on the 1996 presidential campaign as a case study of money, public opinion polling, attack advertising, handlers, consultants, and decision making in the midst of electoral uncertainty.

Title: The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels,  Gareth Stedman Jones,  Karl Marx
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), usually referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.

Title: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
In the book, Sachs argues that extreme poverty—defined by the World Bank as incomes of less than US$1 per day—can be eliminated globally by the year 2025, through carefully planned development aid. He presents the problem as an inability of very poor countries to reach the 'bottom rung' of the ladder of economic development; once the bottom rung is reached, a country can pull itself up into the global market economy, and the need for outside aid will be greatly diminished or eliminated.
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