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The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell, a Welsh atheist, wore many hats including philosopher, historical, logician, mathematician, and social reformist. In 1950 he won a Nobel Prize in literature for his humanitarianism and freedom of thought. In this book Russell attempts to give an easily accessible look at...
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Renaissance DiplomacyThis 1955 work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic traditions of civilized cultures-which have existed as far back as the records of human history extend-took a sharp turn that was...
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The PrinceIf any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and philosopher NICCOL MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527) considered it his greatest work. Indeed, his thoughts on politics, as laid out so famously in this brief but profound work, have become...
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Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of NonviolenceMany books have dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Israeli perspective. However, few reflect the Palestinian point of view. Letters from Palestine offers an American audience a rare opportunity to listen to actual Palestinian people as they describe what it is like to...
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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009Ten years in the making, this magisterial work--the second of a two-volume study--provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the...
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Rebel Voices: An IWW AnthologyWelcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor's outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as "unorganizable." Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first...
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Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th CenturyUsing social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country's politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese...
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Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate CrisisOrganizing Cools the Planet offers a challenge to all concerned about the ecological crisis: find your frontline. This booklet weaves together stories, analysis, organizing tools, and provocative questions, to offer a snapshot of the North American Climate Justice movement and provide pathways for readers...
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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910sThe pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists' image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist armed with stiletto, handgun, or bomb--the clandestine activity of a...
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Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and ResistanceGlobal Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that--far from having ended--the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis...
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and CommunitiesDon't Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers...
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Cnt in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain,...
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Cnt in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain,...
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Cnt in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain,...
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Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political ReaderErich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany's most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of women and...
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Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service IndustryA 60-page illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anticapitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part...
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteAuthor: Karl MarxPublisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCPublished: 12/04/2008Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27dISBN: 9781604505887This title is not returnable
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Anarchism and Other EssaysAmong the men and women prominent in the public life of America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown.Author: Emma GoldmanPublisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCPublished: 11/21/2008Pages: 168Binding Type:...
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The Problems of PhilosophyAuthor: Bertrand RussellPublisher: ARC ManorPublished: 02/05/2008Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9781604500851This title is not returnable
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Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and BustsIn responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes, the most important economist since Marx. But should we be relying on Keynes? What did Keynes actually say? Did...
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