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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most frightening things to me about the current administration is its disregard for scientific fact — the basis for any rational society. Mooney skillfully traces the history of the Republicans' manipulation of science that doesn't... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Very Short Introductions #116: Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward Publisher Comments Colin Ward explains what anarchism means and who anarchists are in this illuminating and accessible introduction to the subject.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Raji Chandrasekaran Powells.com Staff Pick Not to be lost amid the many books on Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, gives us a fascinating look at what life inside the Green Zone was like in the first year of post-Saddam Iraq. Here Chandrasekaran’s... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments In this classic work, Thomas Sowell describes the two competing visions that shape debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power. "A Conflict of Visions" offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Living My Life Volume 1 by Emma Goldman Publisher Comments Volume 1 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by American anarchist Goldman relates her philosophical and political journey through life, beginning with her emigration from Russia to the U.S. in 1886.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas Publisher Comments Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas was born in rural Georgia on June 23... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Who Governs 2ND Edition by Robert Dahl Publisher Comments In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin Publisher Comments “A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today—a clarion call to action that concerns us all.”—Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Politics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything thatandrsquo;s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques ofandmdash;among other thingsandmdash;capitalism, imperialism, domestic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Against Empire by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum Publisher Comments For sheer government absurdity, the War on Drugs is hard to beat. After three decades of increasingly punitive policies, illicit drugs are more easily available, drug potencies are greater, drug killings are more common, and drug barons are richer than... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith Publisher Comments Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, from the weekend, to health care, to the right to even form a union. <P>But in 2005, the number of workers organized in unions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky by John Moe Publisher Comments We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by Willia Langewiesche Publisher Comments In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Conscience of a Conservative (James Madison Library in American Politics) by Barry Goldwater Publisher Comments In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in "The Conscience of a Conservative," Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Superpatriots, writes Michael Parenti, are those people who place national pride and American supremacy above every other public consideration, those who follow leaders uncritically, especially in their war policies abroad. Superpatriotismis the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright Publisher Comments A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 2% Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love by Matthew Miller Publisher Comments Suppose someone told you that for just two cents on the national dollar we could have a country where everyone had health insurance, full-time workers earned a living wage, poor children had great teachers in fixed-up schools, and politicians no longer... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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