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Peoples Apart: Israel, South Africa and the Apartheid Question by Ilan Pappe Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper 
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Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: Ngos, Social Movements, and Political Parties by Heather Gautney Publisher Comments This book details the history of the alter-globalization protests over the last decade and the attempts by various groups on the global left to build alternatives to neoliberal development through the mechanism of the World Social Forum. Gautney... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $35.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Obama Signed Edition by Ted Rall Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Back to Full Employment (Boston Review Books) by Robert Pollin Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Signed Edition by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard D. Wolff Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dreaming in Public: Creating the Occupy Movement by Amy Lang Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Patrick J. Buchanan Publisher Comments “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 Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Occupying Language (Occupied Media Pamphlet) by Marina Sitrin Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization: New Forms of Economic Organization and Welfare Institutions by Peer Hull Kristensen Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Iraq War: A Philosophical Analysis by Bassam Romaya Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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The European Commission by Sebastien Rippert Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $63.75 New - Hardcover
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The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton (Political Philosophy of the American Founders) by Michael P. Federici Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances by Nigel Thalakada Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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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 by Jung-sun N. Han Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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The Third Way by Anthony Giddens Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Security Studies: An Introduction by Paul D. Williams Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $56.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Leviathan: The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century by Roger Kimball Synopsis Encounter Broadsides is a series of critical pamphlets from Encounter Books. Uniting an 18th-century sense of political urgency and rhetorical wit (think The Federalist Papers, Common Sense) with 21st-century technology and channels of distribution... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Public Policy in Canada an Introduction, 6/E by Lydia Miljan Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $86.95 New - Trade Paper
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