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<<< 1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | author Orange Sunshine The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World Nicholas Schou A startling, secret history of the "Hippie Mafia"—a group of surfer smugglers out of Laguna Beach who were responsible for the majority of the hash and LSD that literally fueled the psychedelic revolution. —Recommended by Andy, City Lights Books 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 CIA's Secret War in Tibet Kenneth J. Conboy, James Morrison Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone... The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely... 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. A Brief History of Neoliberalism David Harvey 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... The Ethics of Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we... A People's History of the Supreme Court The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution, Revised Edition Peter Irons Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. <<< 1 2 3 >>>