Current Events | Nonfiction
Jan.29.2008
The director of 2004's smash hit documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism teams with journalist Alexandra Kitty in an even more detailed and updated examination of how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. They...
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Jan.25.2008
Dams have displaced between forty and eighty million people around the world, and have shifted so much weight that geophysicists believe they have slightly altered the speed of the earth's rotations, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field. In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie...
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Jan.19.2008
This is how the world ends...
An invisible killer has returned. The last time it raged, upward of forty million died-- in a matter of months.
Now it is back, released to prey on an unsuspecting, unprotected world.
This time, nothing can stop it.
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The first case appears on a flawless spring...
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Jan.11.2008
The story of Fernando, a young boy who lives in the rain forest of Costa Rica. Readers can follow Fernando's adventures as he picks bananas off the tree right outside his door, and goes swimming in the local river. One day Fernando and his friend go looking for their favorite climbing tree and...
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Jan.09.2008
THE SACRED HOOP, by Bill Broder, Sierra Club Books "Bill Broder's THE SACRED HOOP is a special book in which the moral qualities of the human spirit, linked to a metaphysical presence moving through history and pervading life, are persuasive and affecting. It's a fine piece of writing. A...
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