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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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The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as FarceA timely commentary on today's New Cold War between the United States and Russia Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce." The Cold War waged between the United States and...
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Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His WorkA new, comprehensive biography of the life and work of Karl Marx For over a century, Karl Marx's critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises have made it imperative for us to comprehend and actualize Marx's...
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Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People's Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, IrelandThe inspiring story of a successful struggle to preserve what's left of the natural world County Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing...
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other EssaysNo figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the...
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The Politics of GenocideIn this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word "genocide." They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to...
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The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and WarIn The Blue Book of Freedom, R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace for more than forty years, he has learned that democratic freedom provides a solution to the...
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9/11 and Terrorist Travel: A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesFinally, the answer to the question people have asked since 9/11: "How DID the terrorists enter the United States?"Before 19 hijackers could commit the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they passed through U.S. border security 68 times. In all, they had 25 contacts...
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First CenturyNoting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often neglected laboring majority. In a blend of economic, social,...
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Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now: On Hope, Loss, and Wearing SunscreenWhat it means when your father dies. How it feels when summer comes. What it's like to live in a great but troubled American city. The value of wearing sunscreen. These are just a few of the topics that Mary Schmich addresses in this...
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Freedom Next Time: Resisting the EmpireWorld-renowned journalist John Pilger looks at five nations (Palestine, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Africa) that have undergone long and painful struggles for freedom, yet are still waiting for its realization.Author: John PilgerPublisher: Bold Type BooksPublished: 05/15/2007Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.40h x...
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. Remarks from the previous edition: Far and away the best book on...
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North Korea: Another CountryDepicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an insane dictator at its helm, North Korea--charter member of Bush's Axis of Evil--is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as...
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Angel in the Forest: A Fariy Tale of Two UtopiasThis is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.Angel in the Forest recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana. The original community was founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father...
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