 | Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.04 well written book the deals with the level and shades of "outness" in society. food for thought
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 | Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $3.25 ever wonder why talking to conservatives is like speaking to someone that seems to be speaking another language.... Lakoff explains. After absorbing this material, listening to speeches and reading articles is transformed, because you can pick out the worldview of the speakers and writers.
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 | Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson
Buy used from: $0.01 Thinking about hospitalization issues, legal rights of couples and elder care planning for LGBT.
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 | The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction by Professor Akhil Reed Amar
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.85 If you are talking politics, knowing the bill of rights well is important and Amar does a good job
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 | America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.99 If you are talking politics, knowing the constitution is important, In depth coverage.
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 | Setting Them Straight: You CAN Do Something About Bigotry and Homophobia in Your Life by Betty Berzon
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.01 Arm yourself, Berzon knows her stuff. Don't just stand there and get demonized in silence.
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 | Courting Justice: Gay Men And Lesbians V. The Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.47 Covers court cases of importance to LGBT community.
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 | Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders by Jason L. Riley
Buy used from: $3.25 good treatment of immigration issues. the intellectual capital points are very important given our economy and the balance of trade etc
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 | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $5.51 the politics and history AIDS is important to understand.
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 | Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military by Randy Shilts
Buy used from: $5.98 the politics and history of the military /gay issue. DADT (dont ask dont tell) has moved the debate forward a
great deal despite being a half measure.
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 | Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Ronald Findlay
Buy new: $32.89 / Used from: $25.00 one of three books in the list on the economy. politics is money and sooner or later politics (and money) impact us
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 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.99 one of three books in the list on the economy. politics is money and sooner or later politics (and money) impact us
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 | The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.46 one of three books in the list on the economy. politics is money and sooner or later politics (and money) impact us
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 | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Dr. Nathaniel Frank
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.15 more on the military issue, coming soon.
heads my wish list as of January 2009
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 | Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.99 advanced reading by Lakoff. read after Moral Politics. advances nature is why I placed it last on the list.
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