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  • Impasse in Bolivia

    Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance

    Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • Worse Than War

    Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

    Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

    Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Project Fear

    How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided

    by Joe Pike ...
    As the clock struck 10 p.m. on Thursday 18 September 2014, polling stations across Scotland closed, signalling the end of two and a half bruising years of debate for the Yes and No campaigns. Dubbed 'Project Fear', the unique Better Together alliance was relieved as victory was secured and a weary and dejected Alex Salmond tendered his resignation. But the relief proved to be premature. Despite ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trigger Warning

    Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

    by Mick Hume ...
    Concise and Abridged EditionIn this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can’t-Say-That.In a fierce defence of free speech – in all its forms – Mick Hume’s blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social Conservatives and Party Politics in Canada and the United States

    by James Farney ...
    The strength of the Tea Party and Religious Right in the United States, alongside the Harper Conservatives’ stance on same-sex marriage and religious freedom in Canada, has many asking whether social conservatism has come to define the right wing of North American politics.In this timely and penetrating book, James Farney provides the first full-length comparison of social conservatism in Canada ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Barbershops, Bibles, and BET

    Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought

    What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Pop Culture Goes to War

    Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror

    Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in rallying both the troops and the public for war and show how toys, video games, music, and television support contemporary militarism. At the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Extreme Gone Mainstream

    Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbolsThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Islam's Predicament with Modernity

    Religious Reform and Cultural Change

    by Bassam Tibi ...
    Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved.Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines the role of culture and religion in Muslim society under conditions of globalisation, and analyses issues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Taking on the System

    Rules for Change in a Digital Era

    In this “primer for activists in the digital age”* the founder of DailyKos.com establishes the new rules of today's political battleground to empower everyday people to take action and effect positive change.The walls between the people and the power are being torn down thanks to our ever-evolving, social media loving, tech-savvy culture. By understanding the new dynamics and rules of power in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD