Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possible if tool manufacture and use are conceived as products of both environmental factors and social needs. Drawing particularly on optimisation theory in ecology, the eleven contributors examine within a broad spatial and temporal framework a wide range of variable including time, energy, raw materials, risk management and information flow and its place in social relationships. Most concentrate on hunter-gatherer adaptation but key papers examining the impact of agriculture and growing social complexity are also included. A challenging overview by Michael Jochim stresses at once the key role of theory in aiding our understanding of early technology and the embeddedness of tool use in the wider behavioural setting.

A work of political satire draws on a wide range of resources to expose the mendacity of the Bush administration and its conservative Republican supporters.

Product Description: From the satirical masterminds behind the New York Times best-seller Goodnight Bush (more than 125,000 copies sold) comes this scathingly funny political parody of the contemporary children's classic Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!  As any left-leaning parent of small children will tell you, these days it seems like the Republican Party is taking its tactical and ideological cues from a screaming, mid-tantrum toddler...read more

Product Description: After a long political season of listening to Glenn Beck’s loony rants, Sarah Palin’s off-kilter phraseology, and Rand Paul’s downright oddball elocutions, authors Shelby Gragg and Stefan Petrucha were struck by an astonishing similarity to the beloved fill-in-the-blank games of their childhood...read more

Product Description: The vast right wing conspiracy has found its General Patton, and his name is David Kahane. Kahane's pseudonymous, satiric column for National Review Online, lampooning the Left via his Hollywood-radical persona-Stephen Colbert's liberal doppelganger-is must-listening for political aficionados of all stripes...read more

Product Description: The vast right wing conspiracy has found its General Patton, and his name is David Kahane. Kahane's pseudonymous, satiric column for National Review Online, lampooning the Left via his Hollywood-radical persona-Stephen Colbert's liberal doppelganger-is must-listening for political aficionados of all stripes...read more

Product Description: How to Win a Fight With a Conservative is the ultimate survival guide to arguing politics, filled with all the cunning strategies, damning facts, and merciless ridicule liberals need to lay the smackdown on right-wing blowhards everywhere...read more

A whimsical exploration of the state of American politics, presented by one of the writers of McSweeneys.net and prepared in the tradition of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, follows a month-long experiment during which he surrounds himself by red-state influences to see if they can shift his liberal beliefs. 60,000 first printing.

Product Description: This funny, quirky flip book gives readers red and blue the lowdown on all 50 states: What if you're a Blue Stater-and now you find yourself in a Red State. Where will you watch films free from the taint of "traditional family values"? Or What if you're a Red Stater-and now you find yourself in a Blue State...read more

Collected by an editor for Nation, a satirical guide to the Republican Party's intentional and funded practice of Orwellian 'doublespeak' evaluates the party's influence over American political discourse and features reader-submitted 'definitions' of Republican jargon. Original.

Product Description: Can't we all just get along? The 2004 election is over and people are pissed. The re-election of W for a second term has divided the country in ways we haven't seen since the OJ verdict, since Britney v. Christina, since paper v. plastic...read more

Product Description: We're supposed to be the "United" States, but right now, we're about as united as Shaq and Kobe in the NBA finals. BLUE v. RED is an irreverent guide to the history, demographics, ideals, and philosophies of "the enemy." This hilarious humor book is an equal opportunity offender, and the Blue side of the great divide will embrace how its handbook showcases the hypocrisies and vulnerabilties of the opponents...read more

Offers a whimsical critique of the Right, exposing their deceptive practices, challenging conceptions about the media's liberal bias, and identifying inconsistencies in the Bush administration.

The author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations offers a whimsical critique of the Right, challenging conceptions about the media's liberal bias, exposing the party's deceptive practices, and identifying inconsistencies in the Bush administration. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Katherine Black

Product Description: In the wake of the Republican revolution of 1994, when the G.O.P. won majority status in the U.S. House of Representatives and House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America made best-seller lists, Bruce J. Miller began collecting the verbal and rhetorical gems of freshman Republicans and their many friends in the media—as well as a smattering of oddities from the other end of the political spectrum...read more

Product Description: Few have the time or constitution to be able to remember the details of every horror story about how the Republican Party has repeatedly attempted to hijack the American dream for its own selfish reasons. For those who want to be sure they’re not left sputtering in an argument they know they should win hands-down, The I Hate Republicans Reader—via a wide range of lively and entertaining essays, articles, speeches, and rants—will be the place to go for the many compelling reasons to detest the GOP...read more

Product Description: The Machiavellian Way to the Best Possible America Machiavelli's ghost presents the perfect guide for conservative Republicans. The master begins by revealing the true Republican goal and principles. He then shows the value of lies, distortions, personal attacks and hypocrisy for promoting the conservative agenda...read more

A tongue-in-cheek dictionary pokes fun at liberals with 'conservative' definitions