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Peoples Apart: Israel, South Africa and the Apartheid Question
Peoples Apart: Israel, South Africa and the Apartheid Question
by Ilan Pappe
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The word "apartheid" evokes the ideology of racial segregation which dominated South Africa for so many years. Yet opinion-formers, including former US President Jimmy Carter, are increasingly using the word "apartheid" to describe the situation of Arabs... (read more)

Available March 19, 2013
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The Book of Obama Signed Edition
The Book of Obama Signed Edition
by Ted Rall
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How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and... (read more)

Available May 31, 2012
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Back to Full Employment (Boston Review Books)
Back to Full Employment (Boston Review Books)
by Robert Pollin
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Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States--today faced with its highest level of... (read more)

Available June 2012
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Signed Edition
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Signed Edition
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
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Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment — hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for... (read more)

Available June 25, 2012
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff
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A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change, Wolff writes in this compelling new manifesto for a democratic alternative based on workers managing their own workplaces. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis... (read more)

Available November 2012
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Dreaming in Public: Creating the Occupy Movement
Dreaming in Public: Creating the Occupy Movement
by Amy Lang
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Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and... (read more)

Available June 2012
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We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson
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A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. In late 2010, thousands of hacktivists joined a mass digital assault by Anonymous on the websites of VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal to protest their treatment of WikiLeaks... (read more)

Available June 5, 2012
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
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“Mr. Buchanan has written the political book of the year - and maybe of our time.” --The Washington TimesAmerica is disintegrating. The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In... (read more)

Available June 5, 2012
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Occupying Language (Occupied Media Pamphlet)
Occupying Language (Occupied Media Pamphlet)
by Marina Sitrin
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Praise for Marina Sitrin's previous works: "'Another world is possible' was the catch-phrase of the World Social Forum, but it wasn't just possible; while the north was dreaming, that world was and is being built and lived in many parts of the global... (read more)

Available September 2012
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Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization: New Forms of Economic Organization and Welfare Institutions
Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization: New Forms of Economic Organization and Welfare Institutions
by Peer Hull Kristensen
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In the early 1990s the Nordic countries were considered to be in a serious situation. The costs of welfare states, generous unemployment benefits, high taxation rates, strong unions, and centralized wage bargaining were thought to be undermining their... (read more)

Available August 2012
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The Iraq War: A Philosophical Analysis
The Iraq War: A Philosophical Analysis
by Bassam Romaya
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This book features a critique of key philosophical doctrines that dominate the Iraq war debate: just war theory, humanitarian intervention, democratic realism, and preventive war doctrine. The author evaluates each doctrine and argues that the failure... (read more)

Available June 5, 2012
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The European Commission
The European Commission
by Sebastien Rippert
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Written in a style that is both uncomplicated and user-friendly, this new edition of "The European Commission" is an essential guide to the history and the administrative structure of the sixteenth European Commission, its policies and procedures, the... (read more)

Available February 2013
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The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton (Political Philosophy of the American Founders)
The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton (Political Philosophy of the American Founders)
by Michael P. Federici
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America's first treasury secretary and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton is one of the nation's important early statesmen. Michael P. Federici's introduction to this Founding Father's political thought firmly places... (read more)

Available June 2012
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Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances
Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances
by Nigel Thalakada
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Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US... (read more)

Available June 5, 2012
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #345: An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō And a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905-1937
Harvard East Asian Monographs #345: An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō And a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905-1937
by Jung-sun N. Han
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An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into national values and imperial ambitions in early twentieth-century Japan. Perceiving the relationship between... (read more)

Available June 2012
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The Third Way
The Third Way
by Anthony Giddens
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The Third Way enjoyed a dramatic success when it first appeared in the late 1990s. The book helped to provide inspiration for left-of-centre parties in a variety of different countries around the world, and many incorporated elements from it into their... (read more)

Available July 2012
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Security Studies: An Introduction
Security Studies: An Introduction
by Paul D. Williams
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Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. Comprehensively revised for the new edition including new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence, and the Academic and Policy Worlds, it continues to give students a... (read more)

Available May 2012
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Public Policy in Canada an Introduction, 6/E
Public Policy in Canada an Introduction, 6/E
by Lydia Miljan
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As Public Policy in Canada: An Introduction moves into its sixth edition, this classic text continues to chronicle the changing landscape of public policy issues in Canada, and the political, economic, and social environments and events that drive such... (read more)

Available May 2012
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The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism: Women and the Japanese Nation-State
The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism: Women and the Japanese Nation-State
by Nicole Lynn Freiner
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The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism argues that Confucian nationalism is a key concept in understanding the relationship between citizens and the state in Japan, especially that between women and the state. Freiner defines and... (read more)

Available July 17, 2012
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Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond (Politics in Asia)
Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond (Politics in Asia)
by T. J. Pempel
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Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia 's security complex poses unique quandaries. Certainly, one of the most vexing and consequential security challenges confronting Greater Asia and the world in the early 21st century lies in co-shaping and... (read more)

Available June 2012
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