W. W. Norton & Company, February 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a...... More
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Trade Paperback. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability benefits and..... More
Bloomsbury USA, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Due to a combination of heightened frustration, moves to skirt the constitutional process, and a widespread disconnect between the people and their constitutional "conscience," Lane and Oreskes warn us our longstanding Democracy is at risk. Together, they examine the Constitution's history relative to this..... More
Dey Street Books, September 2017. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Called disgraceful, third-rate, and not nice by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent..... More
Polipoint Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. More
University of Chicago Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. In Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, S. M. Amadae tells the remarkable story of how rational choice theory rose from obscurity to become the intellectual bulwark of capitalist democracy. Amadae roots Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy in the turbulent post-World War II era, showing how rational..... More
Verso, October 2016. Hardcover. The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward..... More
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 2016. Trade Paperback. From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship. But is there anything new about these occupations of..... More
Knopf, March 2004. Book Club. Hardcover. Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party' s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 2005. Trade Paperback. From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What can..... More
Da Capo Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. A full-scale biography of the complex life and times of George Wallace, from rural poverty under Roosevelt to national prominence in the age of segregation Alabama Governor George Wallace captured the national spotlight in fiery opposition to civil rights as one of the..... More
Haymarket Books, July 2006. Trade Paperback. "A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."--Susan Faludi "[Davis' writing is] perceptive and rigorous."--David Montgomery, The Nation "[Davis' work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."--The Village Voice "[Davis' work is] eloquent and passionate."--Tariq Ali..... More
Haymarket Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. "We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2003. Hardcover. Mike Moore's reflection on his time as Director-General of the World Trade Organization is an important addition to the great globalization debate. Moore explains how a boy who left school at fifteen to work in a slaughterhouse came to head an organization charged with..... More
Beacon Press (MA), December 2010. Trade Paperback. Dispatches from Arizona--the front line of a massive human migration--including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented..... More
Bedminster Press, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. 3 volume set much worn slipcase. Pictorial paper covered heavy cardstock case in black, blue, yellow & white. Worn & rubbed, especially at corners and edges. Bumped/worn corners. Surface cracks to paper covering at top of case. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gold..... More
Basic Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback. The classic work on the moral issues of warfare, updated in light of recent events. "A magnificent book, an honor to its writer."-- "New York Review of Books" "A magnificent book, an honor to its writer." "--New York Review of Books" More
Seven Stories Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Four generations of Americans have come to associate Ralph Nader with the political issues that have defined our age, be it car safety in the 1960s or the anti-WTO demonstrations that recently shut down Seattle. His work has successfully shaped the Left, increased..... More
The New Press, September 2020. Hardcover. From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently..... More
Open Road Media, August 2014. Trade Paperback. "Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." --Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1997. Hardcover. In "One World, Ready or Not, " a national bestseller, Wiliam Greider focuses his incomparable reportorial skills on exposing the myths and the realities of the global ecnomy in terms of human struggle. Drawing on in-depth investigations and interviews with factory workers, corporate CEOs..... More
Dutton Books, January 1997. Hardcover. The Bankers: The Next Generation introduces readers to what is enduring in the great human invention of money, and what may be transient; the social and economic functions banks perform and how these do or don't change; today's explosive growth in credit cards and tomorrow's..... More
Basic Books, February 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United..... More
Three Rivers Press, November 2007. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Barack Obama's lucid vision of America's place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate "In our lowdown, dispiriting..... More
Macmillan Pub Co, October 1982. Hardcover. Edges foxed. More
