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  • Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11

    Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation

    by Aaron Michael Kerner ...
    Series series War Culture
    Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. In this timely new study, Aaron ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • The Hundred-Year Marathon

    China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

    by Michael Pillsbury ...
    One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Acquiescence

    The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

    by Steve Fraser ...
    A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Future

    A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century

    by Jacques Attali ...
    Translated by Jeremy Leggatt ...
    What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unraveling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever the ties linking free enterprise to democracy. ... Read more

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  • Occupy the Economy

    Challenging Capitalism

    by Richard D. Wolff, David Barsamian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the ... Read more

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  • Angler

    The Cheney Vice Presidency

    by Barton Gellman ...
    **A New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Inspiration for the film Vice"Jaw-dropping . . . It reads like a thriller." —The New York TimesThe landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history**Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In ... Read more

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  • Thanks for the Memories, George

    What Eight Years of Bush Will Do to a Country

    by Mike Loew ...
    Feeling Bushed, America?In Thanks for the Memories, George, author and Onion contributor Mike Loew takes a humorous–yet furious–look at the last eight years of the Bush administration. From the botched evidence for the war in Iraq to the torture and violation of the Constitution to the economic crisis, this is a scathing, witty review of W’s sorry legacy, including:•How the Taliban is spending ... Read more

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  • Brokers of Deceit

    How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

    by Rashid Khalidi ...
    **Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book AwardAn examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments**For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict ... Read more

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  • The Kennedys

    America's Front Page Family

    by The Poynter Institute ...
    One of the most influential families in American history, the Kennedys have had their lives documented by the media for the past 50 years. The Kennedys: America's Front-Page Family tells the story of this fascinating family through a collection of newspaper front pages gathered from the archives of The Poynter Institute.From the political rise and assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the ... Read more

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  • Mounting Evidence

    Why We Need a New Investigation into 9/11

    by Paul W. Rea ...
    In one volume, Mounting Evidence provides the most important evidence accumulated over many years that calls into question the governments account of 9/11. Any citizen of conscience reading it will demand a new investigation.Mike Gravel, United States Senate, 1969-1981Theres little doubt the tragic attacks on 9/11 soon became the defining events of our time, shaping much of what has followed. But ... Read more

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  • The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

    A Story of American Rage

    by Jared Yates Sexton ...
    “Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election.” —The Washington PostThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the ... Read more

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  • The Hillary Doctrine

    Sex and American Foreign Policy

    by Patricia Leidl, Valerie Hudson ...
    Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for ... Read more

    $19.49 USD