Verso, June 1997. Cloth. With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the Intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic and..... More
Harper Perennial, July 2005. Trade Paperback. Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his headline-making pieces on the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, Hersh brings together what he has..... More
Viking, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors... It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together."--NPR From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, December 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with two large chips. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name, loacation and a date inked top corner of FFEP. Rubber stamp from previous dealer front paste down. Jacket verso is tanned. Gold cloth covered..... More
Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, November 2004. Trade Paperback. I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays..... More
Verso, April 1999. Hardcover. In this new paperback edition, Christopher Hitchens concludes that there is a rapist in the Oval Office and offers a pitiless scrutiny of Mrs Clinton's contemptible Senate campaign. A Washington journalist follows the rise of Bill Clinton and proposes that, if successful, the Clinton machine will..... More
Routledge, September 2005. Trade Paperback. To understand the psychology of those who engage in terrorism, John Horgan draws on interviews with terrorists and analyzes current evidence to argue that only by asking the right questions about this complex problem, and by answering them with evidence, can we truly begin to..... More
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies--from Catholic clergymen to..... More
Vintage, February 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of..... More
Hanian Media, April 2011. Paper Back. A collection of essays about life in these United States from a libertarian left perspective. Many of the essays appeared in the journal Counterpunch and cover everything from the resignation of Richard Nixon to the knighthood of Mick Jagger;the war in Vietnam to the..... More
Brill Academic Pub, January 2015. Hardcover. Recognition and Freedom brings together leading international scholars to discuss the political thought of the social philosopher Axel Honneth. In addition to providing an introduction to Honneth's political thought, the book examines topics such as education, solidarity, multiculturalism, agonism, neo-liberalism and the ways in..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2017. Trade Paperback. As a revered fantasy writer, James Branch Cabell came to be known for richly imagined universes rife with fascinating detail. This early novel takes place in the "real world" of early-twentieth-century America, but it is filled with the same kind of insightful..... More
Liveright, January 2021. Hardcover. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans--and will not for..... More
Tarcher, August 2004. Hardcover. Examines the decline of the American Dream as Americans are increasingly overworked and underpaid and describes its alternative as exemplified in the lifestyle of the New Europe, one that is more leisurely, healthy, and sustainable. Rifkin delves deeply into the history of Europe--and eventually America--to show..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2007. Trade Paperback. The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition..... More
AMACOM, August 2009. Trade Paperback. Taking on risk is simply a part of business. But new developments in technology and communication make risk management simpler and more effective than ever before. Using examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, author John Hampton takes a fresh look..... More
Chelsea Green Publishing, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Meet the essential Bernie Sanders--an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people. Independent United States Senator Bernie Sanders--with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont's mayor, then as Vermont's sole representative to Congress, and currently as a United States senator--is..... More
Free Press, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and..... More
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health..... More
Lexington Books, April 2012. Trade Paperback. When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking..... More
Flatiron Books, April 2018. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize. --..... More
Bantam Books, May 1988. Book Club. Hardcover. Published 20 years after his death, here are Robert Kennedy's startlingly candid recollections of what went on behind the Camelot curtain--everything from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis to first-hand observations about Khruschev, early Civil Rights, and Lyndon Johnson. 16 pages..... More
Harper, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped and with very minor shelfwear. Trivial amounts of foxing to endpapers and edges. SIGNED on half-title page 'WITH BEST WISHES, ROBERT F KENNEDY'. More
