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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to GrasshoppersGorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.--Time MagazineRoy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human...
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Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for PeaceNoam Chomsky addresses relations throughout Central America and relates these to superpower conflicts and the overall impact of the Cold War on international relations. Turning the Tide succinctly and powerfully addresses three interrelated questions: What is the aim and impact of the U.S. Central...
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La Batalla Por El Paraíso: Puerto Rico Y El Capitalismo del Desastre = The Battle for ParadiseEntre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los "Puertopians" ultra-ricos están atrapados en una batalla campal sobre cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, la autora de best-sellers y activista Naomi Klein, revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas...
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Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934Bryan Palmer tells the compelling story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build an industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of...
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After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume IIWith a new preface by the authors, this companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and the Pol Pot regime.Author: Noam Chomsky, Edward S. HermanPublisher: Haymarket...
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism20th-century European Fascism is conventionally described as a fierce assault on liberal politics, culture and economics. Departing from this analysis, Landa highlights the long overlooked critical affinities between the liberal tradition and fascism. Far from being the antithesis of liberalism, fascism, both in its...
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BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights"I have been to Palestine where I've witnessed the racially segregated housing and the humiliation of Palestinians at military roadblocks. I can't help but remember the conditions we experienced in South Africa under apartheid. We could not have achieved our freedom without the help...
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Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: An Empirical AssessmentThe success over the years in reducing inflation and, consequently, the average level of nominal interest rates has increased the likelihood that the nominal policy interest rate may become constrained by the zero lower bound. When that happens, a central bank can no longer...
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Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?After the military coup in Portugal on April 25th, 1974, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed eighteen months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started...
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The Problem of China (with footnotes and index)Author: Bertrand RussellPublisher: ARC ManorPublished: 02/05/2008Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41dISBN: 9781604500837This title is not returnable
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Making Massive Small Change: Ideas, Tools, Tactics: Building the Urban Society We WantBookbuilders of Boston Winner -- Professional, Illustrated Category The key to fixing our broken patterns of urban development does not lie in grand plans or giant projects; rather, it lies in the collective wisdom and energy of people harnessing the power of many small...
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Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National SecurityNow in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people,...
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Cyberpower and National SecurityThe cyber domain is undergoing extraordinary changes that present both exceptional opportunities to and major challenges for users of cyberspace. The challenges arise from the malevolent actors who use cyberspace and the many security vulnerabilities that plague this sphere. Exploiting opportunities and overcoming challenges...
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The Veteran's Survival Guide: How to File and Collect on Va Claims, Second Edition"Claim denied!" All too often millions of veterans have received this response to their legitimate claims for federal benefits. In most cases, writes veterans' advocate John D. Roche, the claimant didn't understand the procedures needed to meet the myriad requirements of the Department of...
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Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal"Vivid case studies . . . Adler's frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking." --Publishers Weekly Why do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"?...
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Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of JusticeRadical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law...
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Anti-AmericanismRevel probes the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil: imperialistic, greedy, ruthlessly competitive--a hyperpower whose riches are acquired at the expense of the Third World.Author: Jean Francois RevelPublisher: Encounter BooksPublished: 09/15/2004Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.34w...
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Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1945, Revised EditionSeizing the Enigma tells the thrilling story of the Royal Navy's battle to crack the Germans' supposedly unbreakable U-boat Enigma code, which would allow the vital Allied convoys in the North Atlantic to be routed away from D nitz's wolfpacks. This battle was fought...
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The Tiananmen PapersOn the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these...
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The Words of César ChávezCésar Chávez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and laborers in the United States marked a milestone in U.S. history. Through his powerful rhetoric and impassioned calls to action, Chávez transformed as well as persuaded and inspired his audiences. In this first...
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