Product Description: Fear This: A Nation at War is Anthony Suau's first-hand documentation of the United States throughout the buildup to the war in Iraq and major Allied military operations, ending with the capture of Saddam Hussein and the erupting Iraqi insurgency...read more

A veteran war correspondent shares examples from his personal life and career to discuss how specific American social groups can benefit from an adherence to the Ten Commandments.

Explores the political ambitions of the Christian right, discussing how their agenda gained momentum through alternative networks, schools, and publishers, and warns that another national crisis may enable the Christian right to seize political power.

Looks at the appeal of war, arguing that the ideas of combat are noble and glorious, providing a purpose for living for some people.

A distinguished New York Times journalist provides a sobering look at the physical and psychological implications of war and utilizes a question-and-answer format to address such issues as the actual experience of warfare, the symptoms of a nerve agent, fear, how it feels to kill someone, what it is like to live in combat, and more. Original. 35,000 first printing.

An exposé of the political ambitions of the Christian right provides a step-by-step breakdown of how the non-secular agenda gained momentum through alternative networks, schools, and publishers; challenges popular opinions that equate extreme Christian ideals with patriotism; and warns readers that another national crisis may enable the Christian right to seize political power. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The author of the best-selling American Fascists presents a scathing critique of both religious and secular fundamentalists, arguing that the former support discrimination and that the latter promote undue dependence on such morally neutral disciplines as reason and science. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians. The testimonies of these soldiers and marines provide a disturbing window into the indiscriminate killing of unarmed and innocent Iraqis that is carried out daily by the occupation forces...read more

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer teams up with a journalist on Middle-East affairs in a sobering volume of U.S. soldier testimonies about the crimes being committed against Iraqi civilians under occupation, documenting how key military operations have directly resulted in an increase of violence and death for everyday Iraqis. First serial, Nation.

Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians. The testimonies of these soldiers and marines provide a disturbing window into the indiscriminate killing of unarmed and innocent Iraqis that is carried out daily by the occupation forces. Collateral Damage is organized around key military operations on the battlefield-convoys, checkpoints, detentions, raids, suppressive fire, and "hearts and minds." Hedges and Al-Arian uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. The military convoys that speed through the centers of towns, often driving on the wrong side of the street or on sidewalks, have become trains of death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity at checkpoints; pregnant women being rushed to the hospital have been killed at roadblocks when their husbands failed to slow down, and children have watched in horror as their parents have been killed. Hedges and Al-Arian show how this widespread pattern of civilian killing has fueled the insurgency in Iraq, giving rise to instability, sectarian violence, and total chaos.

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

Looks at the appeal of war, arguing that the ideas of combat are noble and glorious, providing a purpose for living for some people.