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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

By: Retort

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Verso: June 2005

Seller ID: 242711

ISBN: 1844670317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Afflicted Powers" is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present's lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world careers backward into forms of ideological and geo-political combat that call to mind the Scramble for Africa, and the Wars of Religion. But this brute return of the past is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is on the move again. In the Middle East and elsewhere it is attempting, nakedly, ...
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Age of Sacred Terror : Radical Islams War Against America

By: DANIEL BENJAMIN, STEVEN SIMON

Price: $5.98

Publisher: September 2003

Seller ID: 107418

ISBN: 0812969847

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world's foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the deﬁnitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America's efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam from its medieval origins and, drawing on their years of counter-terrorism work at the National Security Council, provide essential insights into the thinking of Usama bin Laden and his followers. With unique authority, they analyze why Americ...
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Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win

By: Jeffrey Record

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.: October 2009

Seller ID: 57248

ISBN: 1597970913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Beating Goliath" examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He concludes that external assistance correlates more consistently with insurgent success than any other explanation. He does not disparage the critical importance of will, strategy, and strong-side regime type or suggest that external assistance guarantees success. Indeed, in all cases, some combination of these factors is us...
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Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler

By: Tom Frank, Dave Mulcahey, Studs Terkel

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: August 2003

Seller ID: 25957

ISBN: 0393324303

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. W...
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Chomsky on Mis-Education (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire)

By: Noam Chomsky

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: September 2000

Seller ID: 249571

ISBN: 0742501299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Noam Chomsky's prolific writings have made him one of the most-quoted educators in history the only living writer on a most-cited list that includes Plato, Shakespeare, and Freud. Yet until now, no book has systematically offered Chomsky's influential writings on education. In Chomsky on MisEducation, Noam Chomsky encourages a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, and broadening our view of new models of public education. Chomsky weaves global technological change and the primacy of responsible media with the democratic role of schools...
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Death of the Liberal Class

By: Chris Hedges

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Bold Type Books: November 2011

Seller ID: 259541

ISBN: 1568586795

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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 its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle class no longer have a champion. In this searing polemic Chris Hedges indicts liberal institutions, including his former employer, the "New York Times," who have distorted their basic beliefs in order to support unfettered capitalism, the national security state, globalization, and staggering...
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

By: Robert Pape

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: July 2006

Seller ID: 245097

ISBN: 0812973380

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Includes a new Afterword Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. In "Dying to Win," Pape provides a groundbreaking demographic profile of modern suicide terrorist attackers-and his findings offer a powerful counterpoint to what we now accept as conventional wisdom on the topic. He also examines the early practitioners of thi...
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Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (Bk Currents)

By: Ted Nace

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers: August 2005

Seller ID: 107408

ISBN: 1576753190

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From its roots in 17th-century Britain to its modern incarnation in Enron and WorldCom, the modern corporation -- restless, autonomous, and self-perpetuating -- has gained potency. Designed to seek profit and power, the corporation has pursued both objectives with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of the law and incurring destruction in its path. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? Considering the importance of such questions, it is surprisingly difficult to find answers. Using cutting-edge research from academi...
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Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

By: Naomi Wolf

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2008

Seller ID: 107405

ISBN: 1416590560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in disorder -- if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries," bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Picador: November 2009

Seller ID: 174884

ISBN: 0312428928

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"A "New York Times Book Review "Notable Book of the Year A "Washington Post "Best Book of the Year A "Businessweek "Best Business Book of the Year A "Chicago Tribune "Best Book of the Year "" "In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world's middle class through globalization hav...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Picador: November 2009

Seller ID: 177537

ISBN: 0312428928

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Inside Terrorism

By: Professor Bruce Hoffman,Bruce Hoffman

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Columbia University Press: April 1999

Seller ID: 229251

ISBN: 0231114699

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bruce Hoffman describes the changing face of terrorism, probing the new adversaries, new motivations, and new methods that have surfaced in recent years to challenge many of our most fundamental assumptions about terrorists and how they operate. Hoffman dissects terrorism past and present, charting its evolution and predicting where it might be headed in the next century. "Inside Terrorism" traces the history of terrorism from its roots in the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution, to Communist movements in Russia, Germany, and Italy, to longstanding nationalist organizations ...
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Intelligence Files : Todays Secrets, Tomorrows Scandals

By: OLIVIER SCHMIDT

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Scb Distributors: July 2005

Seller ID: 107427

ISBN: 0932863426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

These potential scandals are culled from the files of the French-language ADI Journal, "Intelligence, the bible for conspiracy theorists and avidly read in intelligence agencies because it is so rich in insider gossip. Articles include: - Terrorist Networks & Traffic Analysis Before & After September 11- FBI's Wen Ho Lee Case Turns into the Lee FBI Scandal- Trumped Up Proof of Libyan Terrorism- Losing a Spy Elite: The Chinook Crash- Mossad Assassinations- Money Laundering the Swiss Way
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Intimate Appraisals: The Social Writings of Thomas J. Cottle

By: Thomas J. Cottle

Price: $5.00

Publisher: UPNE: March 2002

Seller ID: 40145

ISBN: 1584651423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Throughout his long and varied career, Thomas J. Cottle has been producing books that relate the "life stories" of participants who have been voluntarily or involuntarily swept up into major social events. His viewpoints have stood out from the great majority of writers because of his even-handed treatment of all participants in the often incendiary social or cultural issues of the day, whether they be the Boston school busing controversy or the O. J. Simpson case. Writing from a sociological as well as a clinical psychological point of view, he eschews abstract analyses and polemics to craft ...
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Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness

By: Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New Society Publishers: September 2009

Seller ID: 36471

ISBN: 0865716501

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"it is a series of hard-hitting essays by a diverse collection of writers that wraps its arms around everything from simplicity to climate change to economic metrics to happiness. I approached each chapter (each new writer) with skepticism and a willingness to put the book down, and I found my self delighted time after time. This is a book anyone would be glad to have on their shlf." - Lyle Estill"Here is a book with its roots in the earth that can move you to new places, stimulate ideas and encourage change. Less is More will show you how to divest gradually, to live more in the present...
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Let My People Go

By: Cal Bombay

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Multnomah: September 1998

Seller ID: 242227

ISBN: 1576734595

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In the war-ravaged African nation of Sudan, slavery is a way of life. Islamic fundamentalists in the north capture women and children-many of them Christian-in the south and sell them to other northern Muslim as servants and concubines. There they live on table scraps and are forced to convert to Islam. Their stories are devastating, yet their capacity for hope is an inspiration to the world. Let My People Go is the gripping, heartrending, sometimes infuriating first person account of a 1997 mission to return Sudanese slaves to their southern homeland, buy them, and set them free in the name o...
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

By: Christian Parenti

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Verso: September 2000

Seller ID: 244892

ISBN: 1859843034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Lockdown America" documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.
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Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine

By: Tyler E. Boudreau

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Feral House: August 2008

Seller ID: 157644

ISBN: 1932595325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Tyler E. Boudreau is a twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps infantry. He trained and committed himself physically and intellectually to the military life. Then his intense devotion began to disintegrate, bit by bit, during his final mission in Iraq. After returning home, he discovered a turmoil developing in his mind, estranging him from his loved ones and the bill of goods he eagerly purchased as a marine officer."Packing Inferno "is the spectacularly written story of the ordeal of a marine officer in battle and then coming home. It is the struggle with a society resistant to understand th...
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Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews

By: Noam Chomsky

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: February 2003

Seller ID: 181522

ISBN: 1583225900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In this, his first new book since the international bestseller "9-11," Noam Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy, focusing on alternatives to the current course of armed provocation.Noam Chomsky is the author of, among many other books, "Profit over People," and the international anti-war bestseller "9-11," which has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.
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Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews

By: Noam Chomsky

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: February 2003

Seller ID: 250317

ISBN: 1583225900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

By: Becky Bond, Zack Exley

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing: November 2016

Seller ID: 205473

ISBN: 1603587276

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

By: Siddharth Kara

Price: $9.48

Publisher: Columbia University Press: June 2010

Seller ID: 158436

ISBN: 0231139616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed."Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequentl...
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Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times

By: Amy Goodman,David Goodman

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Hyperion: April 2008

Seller ID: 179453

ISBN: 1401322883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help. Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement? The answer: They are everywhere. The award-winning sister-brother team...
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Terrorism, Political Violence and World Order

By: Henry Hyunwook Han

Price: $38.00

Publisher: University Press of America: February 1984

Seller ID: 28580

ISBN: 0819137391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions--and What You Can Do About It

By: Charles Lewis

Price: $6.98

Publisher: William Morrow: April 2001

Seller ID: 157666

ISBN: 038097682X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Each year millions of income-earning adults and corporations do not pay their fair share of federal income taxes -- whether legally (tax avoidance), illegally (tax evasion), or through shady means (tax "avoision"), and their numbers are rising dramatically. In this explosive book, Charles Lewis, founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, and Bill Allison, a former researcher at the Philadelphia Inquirer finger these culprits.Super-rich individuals and corporations alike are increasingly using offshore channels to hide money from the IRS, which seems to have given ...
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The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By: David Neiwert

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Polipoint Press: May 2009

Seller ID: 155296

ISBN: 0981576982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The Eliminationists" describes the malignant influence of right-wing hate talk on the American conservative movement. Tracing much of this vitriol to the dank corners of the para-fascist right, award-winning reporter David Neiwert documents persistent ideas and rhetoric that champion the elimination of opposition groups. As a result of this hateful discourse, Neiwert argues, the broader conservative movement has metastasized into something not truly conservative, but decidedly right-wing and potentially dangerous.By tapping into the eliminationism latent in the American psyche, the mainstream...
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The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press

By: Paul Berman

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Melville House: March 2011

Seller ID: 249585

ISBN: 1935554441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Called "important and devastating in its conclusions" by the "New York Times," now with a new afterword by the author Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie--and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie's defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, "Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class"--an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only because of pseudonyms and police protection. And yet, instead of being applauded, the Rushdie...
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The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War

By: Yochi Dreazen

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Crown: October 2014

Seller ID: 252198

ISBN: 0385347839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated (Justice and Peacebuilding)

By: Howard Zehr

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Good Books: May 2015

Seller ID: 237428

ISBN: 1561488232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family

By: Martha Raddatz

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Putnam Adult: February 2007

Seller ID: 157649

ISBN: 0399153829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, the story of a brutal forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home. In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were on a routine patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under surprise attack. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, 8 Americans would be killed and more than 70 wounded. Back home, as news of the attack began filtering in, the families of these same men, neighbors in Fort Hood, Texas, feared the worst....
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The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

By: David K. Shipler

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Knopf: April 2011

Seller ID: 18551

ISBN: 140004362x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

From the best-selling author of "The Working Poor, "an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade--and their direct impact on our lives. How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to these questions by examining the historical expansion and contraction of our fundamental rights and, most pointedly, the real-life stories of individual men and women who have suffered. This is the account of what has be...
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The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

By: Vali Nasr

Price: $4.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton: April 2007

Seller ID: 108543

ISBN: 0393329682

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his "concise and coherent" analysis (Wall Street Journal). In this "smart, clear and timely" book (Washington Post), Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam. He provides a unique and objective understanding of the 1,400-year bitter struggle between Shias and Sunnis, and sheds crucial light on its modern-day consequences-from the n...
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The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism

By: Stephen Schwartz

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Anchor: September 2003

Seller ID: 129789

ISBN: 1400030455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Towards the 'Other America': Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter

By: Chris Crass

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Chalice Press: December 2015

Seller ID: 228266

ISBN: 082723709X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Unwanted Gaze : The Destruction of Privacy in America

By: JEFFREY ROSEN

Price: $8.98

Publisher: N/A: June 2000

Seller ID: 257247

ISBN: 0679445463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

What Every Person Should Know About War

By: Chris Hedges

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Free Press: June 2003

Seller ID: 157662

ISBN: 0743255127

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Acclaimed "New York Times" journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and ...
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