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The Porto Alegre Alternative: Direct Democracy in Action (IIRE (International Institute for Resear) מאת Iain Bruce Porto Alegre in Brazil is famous as the city that pioneered a revolutionary kind of local democracy. Started over a decade ago by the municipal administration of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), this process -- called the 'participatory budget' -- has steadily attracted attention from around ...

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Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales מאת David Macdonald Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium and heroin. This book explores the devastating impact that the drugs trade has had on the Afghan people. Author David Macdonald has worked as a drugs advisor to the UN. Based on his extensive experience, this book breaks down the myths surrou...

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The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction, Second Edition מאת Gregory Harms The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth, and now twenty-first, century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period. This is the first book to provide a c...

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A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Isreal מאת Hatim Kanaaneh Hatim Kanaaneh is a Palestinian doctor who has struggled for over 35 years to bring medical care to Palestinians in Galilee, against a culture of anti-Arab discrimination. This is the story of how he fought for the human rights of his patients and overcame the Israeli authorities' cruel indifference...

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Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops מאת Liesbeth Sluiter The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle. Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too good to be true. This book shows ...

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China's Global Strategy: Toward a Multipolar World מאת Jenny Clegg China is fast emerging as a powerful player on the world stage. This book takes a closer look at the country's stance on a range of global issues, arguing that its multipolar diplomacy offers a concrete strategy to constrain the US pursuit of unipolar primacy. Many people assume that China wil...

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A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe מאת Liz Fekete Liz Fekete is a leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. A Suitable Enemy draws on sixteen years of research to present a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies. Fekete argues that at the same time a...

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Lenen's last struggle Moshe Lewin

Lenen's last struggle מאת Moshe Lewin

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Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism מאת Jim Stanford --A highly readable guide to how the economy really works--Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This brilliantly concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalis ...

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Conjuring Hitler מאת Guido Giacomo Preparata A fascinating and controversial new perspective on Hitler's rise to power; Provides startling evidence of Britain and America's financial support for the Third Reich; Suggests that the western elite deliberately supported Nazism in the pre-war period to destabilise any alliance between Ger...

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The Communist Manifesto (Get Political) מאת Karl Marx All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned …Working men of all countries, Unite! This book truly changed the world, inspiring millions to revolution. Over 150 years after its publication, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto continues to inspire and provoke students, ...

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A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Orde מאת F. William Engdahl This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil enjoy a controversially c...

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The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation State and the Arab Middle East מאת Tamim Al-Barghouti This book argues that the Arab states in the Middle East have failed to provide security for their citizens or define themselves along the lines of traditional nation states. Due to continuous war, they have been unable to foster development and prosperity. The author argues that ...

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Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes מאת Mathieu O'Neil People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralized production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O'Neil focuses on the regulation of these working relationships. He examines the transformation of leadership ...

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Islam and the Political: Theory, Governance and International Relations (Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons) מאת Amr G.E. Sabet This book compares Islamic and Western political formulations, highlighting areas of agreement and disparity. Building on this analysis, the author goes on to show that political Islam offers a serious alternative to the dominant political system and ideology of the West.Sabet argues that rathe...

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Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance מאת David Chandler David Chandler explores the concept of 'global ideology' and how it impacts on politics, economics, and development studies, explaining why 'the global' is such a damaging construction and exposing the political vacuum at the heart of common perceptions of global politics. He argues that t...

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Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism מאת John Holloway How can activists combat the political paralysis that characterises the anti-dialectical Marxism of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, without reverting to a dogmatic orthodoxy? This book explores solutions in the 'negative dialectics' of Theodor Adorno.The poststructuralist shift from dialectics t...

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Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation מאת Kathleen Christison This book brings personal and pictorial perspectives to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Former CIA political analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison give a comprehensive description of the occupation and the ways in which Israel ...

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Towards a global uillage - International community development inttiatives Michael Shuman

Towards a global uillage - International community development inttiatives מאת Michael Shuman

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We Sell Our Time No More: Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry מאת Paul Stewart This is the story of  struggles against management regimes in the car industry in Britain from the period after the Second World War until the contemporary regime of lean production.   Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how workers responded to a variety of manag...

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Climate Change: Small Guides to Big Issues מאת Melanie Jarman The story of climate change is the story of all life on Earth. This book shows how the environmental challenges we face are leading to big changes in our lives. It shows how people are already making adaptations and adjusting to cope with climate change. Most importantly it suggests that, if we...

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Cool Capitalism מאת Jim McGuigan Thomas Frank coined the term 'the conquest of cool'. This book shows how this conquest is at the heart of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.Jim McGuigan argues that 'cool capitalism' incorporates disaffection into capitalism itself, absorbing rebellion and thereby neutralising opposi...

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Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy מאת John McMurtry The slogan "Marxism is dead" was proclaimed almost immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of the "inevitable victory of the proletariat" espoused by Marx, there was the "inevitable process of globalization," a line ...

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The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Anthropology, Culture and Society) מאת Marianne Maeckelbergh Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy finds itself in deep crisis. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political par...

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The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison מאת Andy Worthington -- The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantanamo -- 'An important book. If you care about our Government's complicity in these illegal and horrific acts then this book provides the evidence.' Ken Loach"Extraordinary rendition, fa ...

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Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience מאת Alice Rothchild The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground, and it is rarer still when these voices belong to women. This book records the intimate journey of a...

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Broken codes John Shannon

Broken codes מאת John Shannon

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Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine מאת Stan Cox Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalization's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world. Scientist Stan Cox e...

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From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention מאת David Chandler 'That the human rights rationale for interventionism is a genuine menace to human rights and to democracy is convincingly demonstrated in this fine book.' Edward S. Herman / This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issue...

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Oil Wars מאת Mary Kaldor Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security.This book argues that the main reason why oil-r...

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Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty מאת Eric Wilson Government of the Shadows analyses the concept of clandestine government. It explores how covert political activity and transnational organised crime are linked -- and how they ultimately work to the advantage of state and corporate power. The book shows that legitimate government is now routin...

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We, the Peoples of Europe מאת Susan George Is the EU Constitution dead in the water?Although it may have disappeared from the headlines, right-wing European leaders have not given up on pushing through a binding EU text providing total freedom for goods, services and capital but few advantages for Europeans. A more neo-liberal anti...

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Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine מאת Ghada Karmi Two rabbis,visiting Palestine in 1897,observed that the land was like a bride,"beautiful,but married to another man". By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestein,where would the people of Palestine go? This is a dilemma that Israel has never been able ...

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From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Isra מאת Victor Kattan From Coexistence to Conquest seeks to explain how the Arab-Israeli conflict developed by looking beyond strict legalism to the men behind the policies adopted by the Great Powers at the dawn of the twentieth century.  It controversially argues that Zionism was adopted by the Britis...

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We Sell Our Time No More: Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry מאת Paul Stewart This is the story of  struggles against management regimes in the car industry in Britain from the period after the Second World War until the contemporary regime of lean production.   Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how workers responded to a variety of manag...

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Human Rights and Social Movements מאת Neil Stammers This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights.Stammers argues that human rights cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. He explains how much of the literature on human rights ...

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NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century מאת David Edwards For almost 10 years, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to email senior editors and journalists, challenging them to account for their distorted reporting on climate change, the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Iraq war and much more. The responses -- often surprising, sometimes ...

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A History of Modern Lebanon מאת Fawwaz Traboulsi -- A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries --"Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Leban ...

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On the Game: Women and Sex Work (Anthropology, Culture and Society) מאת Sophie Day ***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their att...

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NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century מאת David Edwards For almost 10 years, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to email senior editors and journalists, challenging them to account for their distorted reporting on climate change, the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Iraq war and much more. The responses -- often surprising, sometimes ...

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Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East מאת Jonathan Cook Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel's key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel's own. This concise...

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An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel מאת Jeff Halper Jeff Halper's book, like his life's work, is an inspiration. Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, he offers one of the most insightful analyses of the occupation I've read. His voice cries out to be heard.Jonathan Cook, author of Blood and Re...

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Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide מאת Ben White Indispensable for the Palestinian solidarity movement, Israeli Apartheid distills the work of academics and experts into a highly readable introduction. This is the book to read if you want to understand the root of the conflict and how apartheid applies to the situation in Palestin...

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Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation מאת Gabriel Baramki This book tells the remarkable story of Bierzeit University, one of Palestine's foremost educational institutions. When Dr. Gabi Baramki co-founded Birzeit's first degree program in 1972, he was determined to create a Palestinian national university despite Israel 's occupation. Democ...

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An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel מאת Jeff Halper Jeff Halper's book, like his life's work, is an inspiration. Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, he offers one of the most insightful analyses of the occupation I've read. His voice cries out to be heard.Jonathan Cook, author of Blood and Re...

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Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age מאת Tiziana Terranova This is an innovative study of digital culture, in particular the politics of the emerging digital culture, and especially the cultural and political dimensions of network technologies. Across the cybercultural landscape of mailing lists, discussion groups, e-zines and the digital press, it sees th...

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From the Local to the Global מאת Gerard McCann “Think global, act locally” is a phrase often used to describe the importance of popular activism and an awareness of the issues surrounding globalization and development. This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in development that are central to...

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The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies מאת Tom Behan One of the enduring myths about World War Two is that only the Allies liberated occupied Europe. Many countries had anti-fascist Resistance movements, and Italy's was one of the biggest and most politically radical yet it remains relatively unknown outside of its own homeland. Within Italy...

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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source מאת David Berry From downloading music and movies to accessing free software, digital media is forcing us to rethink the very idea of intellectual property. While big companies complain about lost profits, the individual has never enjoyed such freedom and autonomy. Berry explores this debate in a concise way, ...

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Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation מאת Kathleen Christison This book brings personal and pictorial perspectives to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Former CIA political analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison give a comprehensive description of the occupation and the ways in which Israel ...

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Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal מאת Damian F. White This is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Murray Bookchin, the left-libertarian social theorist and political ecologist who is widely regarded as the visionary precursor of anti-corporate politics. Bookchin's writing spans fifty years and engages with a wide variety of issues: fro...

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The African American Experience In Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Cu מאת Abdul Alkalimat The World Wide Web is the greatest source of information used by students and teachers, media and library professionals, as well as the general public. There is so great a flow of information that it is necessary to have a tool for guiding one to the best and most reliable sources. This important ne...

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Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East מאת Jonathan Cook Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel's key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel's own. This co...

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Labour and the Challenges of Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? מאת Andreas Bieler This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationali...

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Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of the West מאת Kevin Foster Think of Latin America and what do you see? Cocaine? Carnevale? Chaos? In "Lost Worlds", Kevin Foster explores how these and other stereotypes about Latin America came into being and what their continuing currency tells us about ourselves.Foster argues that over the last 200 years Latin Am...

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China from the Inside Out: Fitting the People's Republic into the World מאת Ronald C. Keith Many books claiming to aid our understanding of China are based on the assumption that it is destined to follow the model of the U.S.; war, empire and unilaterlism. Ronald Keith shows that this underplays the importance of China's domestic politics, which will be essential in shaping ...

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The Politics of Prevention: A Global Crisis in AIDS and Education מאת Tania Boler AIDS kills over two million people every year and nearly 33 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. However, HIV prevention has slipped down the international agenda and meaningful attempts to tackle it are hampered by religious ideology and power struggles. This book brings together sto...

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Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador מאת James Petras The 2003 electoral victory of Lucio Gutiérrez in Ecuador was met with the same sense of optimism that greeted the election of Ignacio 'Lula' da Silva in Brazil, and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Gutierrez's victory was viewed as a major advance for the country in its 500 year-long struggle for fre...

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The Hot 'Cold War': The USSR in Southern Africa מאת Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses on states experiencing violent internal ...

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From the Local to the Global מאת Gerard McCann “Think global, act locally” is a phrase often used to describe the importance of popular activism and an awareness of the issues surrounding globalization and development. This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in development that are central to...

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Poland's New Capitalism מאת Jane Hardy Poland was central to the historic changes that took place across Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. It is the largest economy in the region, and was at the forefront of opposition to communism, with the rise of Solidarity in the 1980s. This book explores the way that neoliberal policie...

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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine מאת Joel Kovel A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer --This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by the imperialist power ...

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Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre מאת Walter A. Davis This book explores the complex relationship between art and politics. Walter Davis uses his extensive knowledge of psychoanalysis to develop a philosophical critique of the impact that the current political climate is having on all artistic endeavour. He uses examples from a wide variety of fie...

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This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Assault on Children מאת Sharon Beder This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be under-aged hyperconsumers.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and ...

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Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror מאת Susan Galleymore Susan Galleymore is the mother of a US soldier who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the story of how and why she traveled to Iraq to visit him on a military base. It is a remarkable portrait of what it means to be a mother in a time of war. It also tells of her continuing jour...

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Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies מאת Brewster Kneen Transnational corporations straddle the globe, largely unseen by the public. Cargill, with its headquarters in the US, is the largest private corporation in North America, and possibly in the world. Cargill trades in food commodities and produces a great many of them: grains, flour, malt, corn, cott...

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Power And Its Disguises - Second Edition: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (Anthropology, Culture and Society) מאת John Gledhill In this fully updated edition of Power and Its Disguises, John Gledhill explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by inco...

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The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multi מאת Nick Robins This is a popular history of one of the world's most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian spices, the Company ended its days running Britain's Indian empire. In the process, it shocked its co...

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The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa מאת Jeremy Keenan The U.S. is keen to build a substantial military presence in Africa, citing the need to combat the growth of Al-Qaeda in Somalia, Algeria and other countries on the continent. This book reveals the secret U.S. agenda behind the 'war on terror' in Africa and the shocking methods used to per...

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Israel's Vicious Circle: Ten Years of Writings on Israel and Palestine מאת Uri Avnery Uri Avnery is one of the best-known peace activists in Israel and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. He has been involved in, and written about, all major events in Israel's history since its creation in 1948, and was the first Israeli to meet Yasser Arafat. This is a carefully selected...

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Endless War?: Hidden Functions of the "War on Terror" מאת David Keen Was the Iraq war really an act of goodwill to liberate people from injustice? Or was it a strategic move to maintain US dominance globally? Endless War? casts a critical light on the real motives behind war and conflict. David Keen explores how winning war is rarely an end in itself; rather, wa...

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The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century מאת Iain Bruce Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to begin building a successful socialist state, but Western leaders see it as a dangerous enemy and accuse Chávez of being a dictator. This book reveals the tru...

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Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution מאת Alastair Crooke This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today. Alastair Crooke presents a compelling account of the ideas and energy which are mobilsing the Islamic world.  The story of the emerging Is...

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This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Assault on Children מאת Sharon Beder This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be under-aged hyperconsumers.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and ...

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The Final Energy Crisis מאת Sheila Newman With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy crisis and that it is linked to economic uncertainty. However, the mainstream lacks a theory to explain this apparently sudden challenge to optimist...

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The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalisation and the Worldwide Economic Crisis מאת Graham Turner This book argues that the current financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will directly challenge the free market economic model. Graham Turner shows that the housing bubbles in the West were deliberately created to mask the damage inflicted by companies shifting productio...

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50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade מאת Miles Litvinoff This is a popular book about a key subject for liberally minded people every where. FT is a rapidly developing area of commerce and this book is intended to spur it on. It is presented with a highly accessible format, with short informative chapters. Fair Trade is a growing global movement...

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Money and Power (Third World in Global Politics) מאת Sarah Bracking Sarah Bracking explores the role of governments and development finance institutions in managing the markets in which the poorest countries operate. These institutions - the 'Great Predators' - are trapping the populations of the south in a permanent cycle of austerity.Bracking examines th...

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Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy מאת John Bell From the 1960s to the 1990s the ground-breaking Japanese economists Kozo Uno and Thomas Sekine developed a masterful reconfiguration of Marxist economics. The most well-known aspect of which is the levels of analysis approach to the study of capitalism. Written in Japanese, the Uno-Sekine ...

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The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies מאת Tom Behan One of the enduring myths about World War Two is that only the Allies liberated occupied Europe. Many countries had anti-fascist Resistance movements, and Italy's was one of the biggest and most politically radical yet it remains relatively unknown outside of its own homeland. Within Italy...