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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders Publisher Comments In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same strategic objective—to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books) by Arjun Appadurai Publisher Comments A leading theorist of globalization provides a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Year 501: The Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments With chapters on Haiti, Latin America, the new global economic order, the Third World at home, and much more, this is a powerful treatise on the not-so-new New World Order.... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten Publisher Comments * Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time* Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting thereIn The Great Turning, David Korten argues that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy by Daniel Altman Publisher Comments In the span of one day, how does the world do business? In Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, journalist and economist Daniel Altman answers this question by visiting more than a dozen cities around the world and tracing the threads of our ever... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Rajeev Charles Patel Publisher Comments Revised and Expanded Edition "For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable." &mdash... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Political Economy of Human Rights #01: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Analyzes the forces that shape U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, as well as the role of the media in misreporting these policies and their motives.... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacquelin Novogratz Publisher Comments For the first 5,000 copies of The Blue Sweater purchased, a $15 donation per book will be made to Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that invests in transformative businesses to solve the problems of poverty.The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--And America Is Building--A New World by Thomas F Madden Publisher Comments An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave Next Door (09 Edition) by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments "Once again, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter make us confront a tragic reality--there are as many as 27 million people trapped in modern slavery worldwide. In this book, we hear the voices of survivors and those who are fighting every day for freedom... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Media Control : the Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (2ND 02 Edition) by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mystery of Capital : Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (00 Edition) by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Peace, War, and Terrorism (Longman Topics) by Dennis Okerstrom Publisher Comments Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Peace, War, and Terrorism examines the complexities of the political and ethical issues surrounding war, peace, and terrorism and encourages reflective, informed writing. "Longman Topics" are brief, attractive... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival by Dan Jaffee Publisher Comments Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Super Power Syndrome (03 Edition) by Robert Jay Lifton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210).... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz Publisher Comments The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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