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Iraq : Logic of Withdrawal (07 Edition)
by Anthony Arnove  Publisher Comments “An urgent book.”—Arundhati Roy Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and liberals alike are struggling with the question of when—and under what...
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Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement
by Eddie Yuen Publisher Comments Examining the worldwide movement against capitalist globalization, this updated and renamed edition of "The Battle of Seattle" offers 50 percent new and revised material, including new pieces by Michael Hardt, Naomi Klein, and reports and theory from the...
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Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land
by Sam Smith 
Powells.com Staff Pick This book begins: "Let's turn off the television, step into the sunlight, and count the bodies." Smith starts by detailing the reasons many of us feel overwhelmed, and perhaps paralyzed, by what's going on in our different institutions. He then sucks you...
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Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America
by Marie Cieri Publisher Comments In "Activists Speak Out," a group of 15 American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary--in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health, youth...
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Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century
by Stanley Aronowitz Publisher Comments Over the past several years, while visible protests against the World Bank and the I.M.F. made front-page news, there has been a growing field of scholarship that looks at the role of globalization for national and international state identities. The...
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What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression: A Guide for Activists
by Victor Serge Publisher Comments "Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century."-Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's Ghost" Serge's expos of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the czarist police reads like a spy thriller. But...
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The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations
by Janet Thomas Publisher Comments November 30, 1999, is seen as a day of infamy -- the day the World Trade Organization was battled head-on in Seattle. Media coverage, with its images of gas masks, tear-gas victims, bullying cops, rampaging hoodlums, and ruffled WTO dignitaries...
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Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
by Ellis Cose Publisher Comments In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide...
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Letters to a Young Activist (Art of Mentoring)
by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments In the spirit of '60s activism, one of our era's most influential advocates of social and political change teaches protesters and dissenters how it was done, and how to keep doing it today. "Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the...
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Not One More Death
by John le Carre and Richard Dawkins and Harold Pinter and Brian Eno and Michel Faber Publisher Comments "The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed a highly dangerous body of weapons of mass destruction, some of which could be fired in 45 minutes, bringing about appalling devastation. We were assured that was true. It was...
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Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment
by Susan Starbuck Book News Annotation From conversations taped over 20 years, Starbuck (education, Antioch U., Seattle) has this feisty activist relate how her early years primed her for adventure; her involvement in theater as politics; her battles as a member of the Communist Party and...
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Prevent War: A New Strategy for America
by Jack Kidd Synopsis This century has been the deadliest ever -- six times deadlier than the last: 110,000,000 were killed in wars! The cost of the Cold War alone, $13.4 trillion, left a $5.5 trillion national debt. Unless imaginative preventative measures are taken Air...
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Fountain of Youth: Strategies and Tactics for Mobilizing America's Young Voters (Campaigning American Style)
by Daniel M Shea Publisher Comments Fountain of Youth examines the tactics and the strategies for youth mobilization. While the central focus of the book is on the role of local political parties in registering and getting young voters to the polls, the editors and contributors examine a...
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Terrorism: Theirs and Ours (Seven Stories' Open Media Pamphlet Series)
by Eqbal Ahmad Publisher Comments In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to his foreign guests as "freedom fighters...
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How Change Happens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Development (Oxfam International Research Report)
by Roman Krznaric Publisher Comments This report presents an overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide range of academic perspectives, from history, politics, and economics to psychology and geography. These are summarized in a useful table, which presents a series of...
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Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists
by Shareen Hertel Book News Annotation Studying two of the most prominent transnational economic and labor rights campaigns of the 1990s, one to end child labor in Bangladesh and the other to fight gender discrimination in Mexican workplaces, Hertel (political science, U. of Connecticut...
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Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World
by Anita Roddick Publisher Comments A consumer revolution is taking hold across the globe. Daily news reports tell us of the sweatshops that produce Gap clothing, the child labor that goes into Nike running shoes, and the deplorable demands that are put on the agricultural workers who...
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Taming Intractable Conflicts
by Chester A. Crocker Publisher Comments Some conflicts seem to defy resolution. Marked by longevity, recurrent violence, and militant agendas, these intractable conflicts refuse to be settled either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. The longer they fester, the stronger the...
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The Insider's Guide to Political Internships: What to Do Once
by Grant Reeher and Mack Mariani Publisher Comments Every year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they are rarely able to "hit the ground running," lacking the tools to help them do so. The Insider's Guide...
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Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
by Robin Broad Publisher Comments Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular...
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