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The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx Synopsis This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.... (read more) List Price $33.60 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, 3rd Edition by Eugene Bardach Book News Annotation Drawing upon his experience teaching graduate-level workshops at UC Berkeley, Bardach uses real-world examples to illustrate his eight steps for producing a policy analysis report, from defining the problem through projecting outcomes and presenting... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lenin Anthology by Robert C. Tucker Publisher Comments Patterned after Professor Tucker's highly successful anthology The Marx-Engels Reader, this book includes those words necessary for an introduction to Lenin's revolutionary thought. Selections, where possible, are presented in their fullest form, and... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Road To Serfdom -volume II ((Rev)07 Edition) by F.a. Hayek Publisher Comments An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All by Washington Post Publisher Comments The Washington Post’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey Publisher Comments Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nationalism (Oxford Readers) by John Hutchinson Publisher Comments Achieving prevalence as an ideology in the political and social ferment of late 18th-century Europe and America, nationalism first found expression during the course of such historical upheavals as the American and French Revolutions. Its founders and... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Staff Pick "The title might give the impression that this book would be at home on Patton's shelf, but a glance at the chapter headings shows the book's true heart and mind: 'The Myth of War,' 'The Plague of Nationalism,' 'The Highjacking and Recovery of Memory... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class — the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions — have collapsed. In... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (12 Edition) by Thomas E. Mann Publisher Comments Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America’s two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Policy Paradox Rev Edition the Art of Politic by Deborah Stone Publisher Comments Unlike most texts, which treat policy analysis and policy making as different enterprises, Policy Paradox demonstrates that "you can't take politics out of analysis." Through a uniquely rich and comprehensive model, this revised edition continues to show... (read more) List Price $41.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments differently."Washington Post A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!--In America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich Publisher Comments One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, The New York Times's Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping and often hysterical look at Washington's incestuous media industrial complex.” The great... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia Publisher Comments Expanded from the sensational hit one-man show produced by Nathan Lane, comedian Mike Birbiglia’s charming, laugh-out-loud funny memoir is a story about first love, denial, and the perils and pitfalls of being…himself. • Beloved by fans... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America by Elinor Langer Publisher Comments On November 12, 1988, a group of Portland, Oregon, skinheads known as East Side White Pride encountered three Ethiopians in a street fight, resulting in the brutal death of Mulugeta Seraw. For award-winning journalist Elinor Langer, the Seraw case is the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky Publisher Comments In this riveting account of the mishandling of the TARP bailout fund, a former federal prosecutor offers behind-the-scenes proof of the corrupt ways Washington officials serve the interests of Wall Street. In author Neil Barofsky’s bracing, fast... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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