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The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland2020 Book of the Year - International Labor History AssociationHonorable Mention - Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear...
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Breathing: Chaos and PoetryThe increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.Since the hopeful days of the Occupy movement, many things have changed in the respiration of the world, and we have entered a cycle of...
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Building a Winning Culture in Government: A Blueprint for Delivering Success in the Public Sector (Dysfunctional Team, Local Government, Culture ChangBuilding Successful GovernmentBuilding A Winning Culture In Government is a revolutionary blueprint for building organizational success in the private sector―and now in governmentGovernment Culture. Our government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the many challenges involved in motivating large, multi-layered and...
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Machiavelli: On Politics and PowerRestless Classics presents a trenchant new edition of Machiavelli's most powerful works of political philosophy, including The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy, introduced by New Yorker writer and biographer of Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson.Few authors achieve such notoriety that their name...
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We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism--American StyleA stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for socialism, American styleIt's a strange day when a New York Times conservative columnist is forced to admit that the left is winning, but as David Brooks wrote recently, the American left is on...
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Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & AdventureLearn how to heal and embrace yourself through feminism, self-love, and some good old anarchism Living in the margins of a culture she never felt comfortable in, Cindy Crabb touches on her experiences with feminism, girl-gangs, abuse, and gender identity. With stories, essays, interviews,...
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Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile CrisisThe closest we've ever come to the end of the worldDEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar...
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Propaganda Technique in the World War2013 Reprint of 1938 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Harold Lasswell (1902-1978) was a prominent scholar in the area of propaganda research. He focused on conducting both quantitative and qualitative analyses of propaganda, understanding the content...
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Be Realistic: Demand the ImpossibleWith wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle- what is to be done next? Mike Davis...
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No One Is Illegal (Updated Edition): Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico BorderCountering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work...
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global PowerIn a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and...
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The Strenuous LifePolitician, soldier, naturalist, and historian -- a century after the peak of his multifaceted career, Theodore Roosevelt remains a towering symbol of American optimism and progress. This collection of speeches and commentaries from 1899 through 1901 embodies the Rough Rider's enduring ideals for attaining...
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The New World OrderThe New World Order is an important book by novelist H. G. Wells and features his belief that it would be beneficial to the world if a new world order ruled the world which would united all the worlds people and at the same...
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The Brothers: The Road to an American TragedyLook out for Masha Gessen's new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017 "A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism... that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than...
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City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900 - PresentBUFFALO, NEW YORK IS ENJOYING A RESURGENCE, AND HAS BECOME A RECOMMENDED TRAVEL DESTINATION. THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF HOW IT GOT HERE. In a sweeping narrative that speaks to the serious student of urban studies as well as the general reader, Mark...
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To Our FriendsA reflection on, and an extension of, the ideas laid out seven years ago in The Coming Insurrection.The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards...
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Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the MarketA devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.Author: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: New PressPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.23h x 5.52w x 0.36dISBN: 9781565845237This title is not returnable
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of LebanonWith the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat's first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and explains why the Israel-Palestine relationship seems...
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Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of StrategyIn Napoleon's Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon's success -- coup d'oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or glance: a sudden insight that shows you what course of action to take. It comes from knowledge of the past: You...
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Eclipsed (Revised Tcg Edition)"Soul-searing...Eclipsed shines with a compassion that makes us see beyond the suffering to the indomitable humanity of its characters." Charles Isherwood, New York Times "A major achievement...Eclipsed is shattering in part because, while the Liberian Civil War finally ended, the struggle continues in a...
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