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The PATH and MAPS HandbookAuthor: John W. O'Brien, Jack C. Pearpoint, Lynda D. KahnPublisher: Inclusion PressPublished: 01/13/2015Pages: 152Binding Type: SpiralWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.33dISBN: 9781895418910This title is not returnable
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Government's EndAn earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for...
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The Crisis of Global CapitalismThe global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese banks are in ruin while the Japanese government muddles along, the nation falling deeper...
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Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in AmericaIndispensable Enemies sheds light on political power in America. The reason we no longer understand why things happen as they do has one, and only one, source. We no longer understand who really has power in America. This book is an attempt to show...
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Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990, Martin Legassick explores aspects of the generally unknown 'brown' and 'black' history of the region....
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The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994This volume represents the 30 years' aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that generation. A chronicle of political and cultural life from 1965 until Andrew Kopkind's death in October of 1994, it tracks...
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards 2nd EditionThe LEGS process grew out of the recognition that livestock are a crucial liveli¬hood asset for people throughout the world - many of whom are poor and vulnerable to both natural and human-induced disasters - and that livestock support is an important component of...
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British Consul: Heir to a Great TraditionIn an era when many other familiar pillars of society have disappeared in Britain, one valiant figure has survived: the traveller's best friend, the British Consul. Till now there has been no comprehensive account of how the Consul evolved from the fifteenth century as...
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Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century ResistanceEach of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon. --George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an...
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May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in FranceQ: "You threw paving stones at the cops]?" A: "Oh yeah. I had no problem doing that. And I threw marbles as well that we stole from stores. And towards the end we even managed to steal tractors from construction sites and we knocked...
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!Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice/Voces de Inmigrantes Latin@s En La Lucha Por La Justicia RaRead the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to...
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Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing CapitalismThe book's argument does not rely on ideologies, scapegoats, or heroes. more than anything, Disassembly Required is about a kind of common sense that's become hard to escape--a common sense of privatization, austerity, and financialization that has invaded virtually every aspect of our lives...
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Inside the Mind of XI JinpingXi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more.For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging mistaken credos...
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Hizb UT-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation PartyAlthough Hizb ut-Tahrir regularly holds conferences attended by tens of thousands of people, little is known about the organisation beyond the West's generalities and conjecture. Its members are repeatedly arrested in Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and across the Middle East, and since the Arab...
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The Activists' Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Participatory DemocracyA priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond. Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign...
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Body Politic: Political Metaphor and Political ViolenceThe idea that there is an analogy between the social collective and the human body originated more than twenty-five centuries ago. It was known to Plato and St. Paul, and was adopted by state functionaries in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and by academics...
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought--successfully--to feed upon this commerce and--with markedly less success--to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate...
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Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered StateSomalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new 'southern front' in...
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Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic StateThe Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. What is Iran's nuclear programme all about? What...
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China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive HistoryA concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a...
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