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Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman’s Anarchist Writings – $295

  Painting a vivid picture of 1960s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman‘s essential anarchist writings—from utopian essays to practical proposals—reveals how he inspired...

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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World – $325

  Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this...

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The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics – $245

For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single...

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Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions – $675

  Public policy advocates routinely assert that “research has shown” a particular policy to be desirable. But how reliable is the analysis in the research they invoke? And how does that analysis affect...

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Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution – $575

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Among the...

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Expect Resistance: A Crimethink Field Manual – $295

Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its...

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt – $295

Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up...

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Comandante: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela – $375

  Hugo Chávez is a phenomenon. He has been compared to Napoléon, Nasser, Perón, and Castro, but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He is democratically elected, reigns like a monarch...

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What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto – $395

The age of austerity has brought a new generation of protesters on to the streets across the world, leading Time magazine to name “the protester” as its 2011 personality of the year. As the economic...

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Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination –...

Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so,...

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The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe – $395

  An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s...

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The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created...

The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America’s political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America’s enormous wealth ought to be “distributed more evenly.”...

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Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State – $295

  The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many...

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Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police – $340

  “Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practiced again and again by undercover police officers – troubling, timely and brilliantly executed”. (Henry Porter). The...

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Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism – $395

  Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political...

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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe

  This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using...

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The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life – $425

  The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. The...

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All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power –...

Who rules America? All the Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and...

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Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and...

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State –...

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily...

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