The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Driven by fantasies of wealth and fame, a man hatches a scheme to steal and clone the federally protected ghost orchid from the Fakahatchee Strand in south Florida.
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn Lasn's attack on consumption and advertising in American culture forces readers to question how we live, why we buy, and how to reinvent our consumerist culture.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser takes the fast food industry to task in his revealing, smart, page-turner of an expose
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Parts I and II by Art Spiegelman This Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel, in which Jews are mice and Germans are cats, tells a survivor's story.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Get a job, any job, and you should be able to take care of yourself, we think. But, Ehrenreich discovers, it's not that simple.
