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Culture In Decline
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Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
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Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
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Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
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Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
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Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)
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