You Say You Want A Revolution

Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the attempted terrorist attack by the Underwear Bomber, this book presents a riveting discussion about the continual struggles of the Middle East to reach freedom and democracy. …More

This smart, friendly, and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social problems. The book features more than 100 innovative, sustainable, need-based product designs that empower individuals, communities, and economies. …More

A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. …More

From one of the most exciting young historians at work today, the story of the French Revolution told through the lives of six remarkable women from different strata of French society. 16-page color insert. …More

The first book from the duo that launched CoolPeopleCare.org gives helpful hints, practical tips, and step-by-step instructions on how to make a big difference in the local community and the world at-large. …More

When it was written in 2005, Yan Lianke's Serve the People! was deemed unpublishable by China's state-run publishing houses. Despite the ban, Serve the People! found an underground audience via excerpts and in chat rooms on the Internet, where commentators praised its subversive critique of the hypocrisy and madness of the Cultural Revolution. Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People! is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly servant, Wu Dawang.

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A sweeping family saga, Brothers follows the parallel paths of two brothers born to different mothers. Da Chen paints a mesmerizing portrait of their lives, of their desperate love for the same woman, and of China during the cultural revolution. …More

Pedaling Revolution is essential reading for the approximately one million people who regularly ride their bike to work or on errands, for anyone engaged in transportation, urban planning, sustainability, and public healthaand for drivers trying to understand why theyare seeing so many cyclists. All will be interested in how urban bike activists are creating the future of how we travel and live in twenty-first-century cities. …More

After his arrest in 1981, prominent Iranian journalist Asadi spent the next six years being brutally tortured by the very people he supported. Through these letters, Asadi recounts how his friendship with a fellow prisoner, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, finally saved his life. …More

This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, "Hackers" is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.

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A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incrediblypopular--open source encyclopedia. …More

CCBC Choices - 1997
In 1966 Ji-li Jian was 12 years old. And oustanding student and a leader of her class, she had everything: brains, ability, the admiration of her peers-- and a shining future in Chairman Mao's New China. But all that changed with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, when intelligence became a crime and a wealthy family background invited persecution or worse. For the next few years Ji-li and her family were humilated and reviled by their former friends, neighbors and colleagues and lived in constant terror of arrest. At last, with the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most dreadful decision of her life: denounce him, or refuse to testify and sacrifice her future in her beloved Communist Party.

From one of the most prominent music critics writing today comes a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of the songs that have transformed the world through the 20th century and beyond. …More

Davies follows the story of the race to offer an individual genome sequence to the public for $1,000 and the revolution in genomic medicine that will follow. …More

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Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans--most of them members of farm families living in small communities--were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority during the American Revolution. …More

Ahmad, a Pakistani doctor, Muslim rock star, and United Nations ambassador, details his journey to unite the Western world and Islam through music. …More