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<<< 1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | author Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson, Jann S. Wenner The definitive collection of the king of gonzo journalism's finest work for Rolling Stone "Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling... El Narco Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Ioan Grillo El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. This piercing book joins testimonies from inside the cartels with firsthand dispatches and unsparing analysis. The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of Capitalism David Harvey For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis... Weaponizing Anthropology Social Science in Service of the Militarized State David H. Price The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological... Green Is the New Red An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege Will Potter An insider tells how environmentalists and animal rights activists have become "the number one domestic terrorism threat." The Relentless Revolution A History of Capitalism Joyce Appleby "Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory.”—The New York Times Book Review With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a... No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition Naomi Klein No Logo was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times).  Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide. In the last decade... The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Paul Krugman The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman... The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein At the core of Klein's book is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization, combined withy the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, the "disaster capitalism complex" now exists... Contrary Notions The Michael Parenti Reader Michael Parenti “Radical in the true sense of the word, [Parenti] digs at the roots which... sustain our public consciousness.”— Los Angeles Times Book Review Interventions Noam Chomsky "From 9-11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis" – Mumia Abu-Jamal Illusions of Security Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World Maureen Webb The government is spying on us, accessing our email, our bank records, and our cell phone calls. Maureen Webb exposes the shadowy global network of surveillance that is infringing on the privacy and civil rights of people worldwide. The Heart of Whiteness Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege Robert Jensen As devastating as the physical destruction brought by Katrina has been, it may turn out that one of the hurricane's most enduring legacies is the way it made visible the effect of racial and class disparities on who lived and who died, who escaped... Superpatriotism Michael Parenti 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. Superpatriotism is the... <<< 1 2 3 >>>