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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
by Russ Kick  
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays, from some of the most potent radicals writing today, serve to fill the massive informational void that American corporate media chooses to ignore. Abuse Your Illusions is an essential addition to post-9/11 discourse. Gerry, Powells....
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Lords of Poverty : the Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business (89 Edition)
by Graham Hancock
Publisher Comments Lords of Poverty is a case study in betrayals of a public trust. The shortcomings of aid are numerous, and serious enough to raise questions about the viability of the practice at its most fundamental levels. Hancock’s report is thorough, deeply...
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Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between)
by Russ Kick Publisher Comments Orgasms, sexual inventions, spirituality, high-tech porn, gender-blending, hustling, masturbation, politics, airplane sex, disabilities, sex magick, biblical erotica, advertising, first times, sex in space, asexuality, group sex . . . are you ready for...
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The Cannabis Companion: the Ultimate Guide To Connoisseurship
by Steven Wishnia Publisher Comments This innovative, one-of-a-kind compendium is decidedly upscale. It treats cannabis as just another fine thing to be savored, like a great wine, good cigar, gourmet chocolate, or single malt scotch. Author Steven Wishnia, a former senior editor at High...
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In Short : a Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction (96 Edition)
by Judith (ed.) Kitchen Synopsis Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of "Shorts" (ranging from several paragraphs to 2,000 words). From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia to Albert Goldbarth's...
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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
by Roger Davies Publisher Comments In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored...
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Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)
by Michael Messner Synopsis A revealing look at gender issues in contemporary sport....
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Open Society & Its Enemies Volume 1 Plato
by Karl R Popper Publisher Comments Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the...
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Development Dictionary (92 Edition)
by Wolfgang Sachs Publisher Comments In this pioneering collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse in the post-war era. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and...
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Tuhami : Portrait of a Moroccan (80 Edition)
by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from...
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Bookseller of Kabul (03 Edition)
by Asne Seierstad
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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Essential Frankfurt Schl Reader Ppr #0001: The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
by Andrew Arato Synopsis The Frankfurt School of philosophers, aestheticians, sociologists, and political scientists (including Theodore W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse) represents one of the most interesting and unique intellectual...
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Powells.com Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium;...
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Age of Propaganda : the Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (Rev 00 Edition)
by Anthony Pratkanis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-397) and index....
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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition)
by C. J. Pascoe Publisher Comments High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse, working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag plumbs the...
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
by Joseph P Shapiro Publisher Comments People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century....
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Sociology (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes
by George D. Zgourides Publisher Comments CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. CliffsQuickReview Sociology provides you with an in-depth review of...
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Representation : Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (97 Edition)
by Stuart (ed.) Hall Synopsis This text outlines how visual images, language and discourse work as "systems of representation". It analyzes questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy....
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome,...
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
by Naomi Klein
Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will...
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