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Hardback. Condition: Good. What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together.

Paperback. Condition: Good. What is the true meaning of happiness? The radical potential of being together.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This is the story of Viramma, an agricultural worker and mid-wife in Karani, a village in South-East India. She tells of her sense of profound change, a constant dialogue between the old certainties of the caste system and institutional and political initiatives to improve the lives of her people.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. what a Green New Deal could look like.

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Hardback. Condition: Fair. A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent.Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America's cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty.In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack Obama's practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump-the demagogue of a culture of corruption from which all traces of political interest and candour have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Rigoberta Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. This book conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Definitive edition of the most influential political call to arms ever written, now in paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Anderson's essay shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and were adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled to Iraq, and has covered the war from Baghdad. Here, he describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam Hussein's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, and the emergence of the resistance into uprising. He also paints a portrait of daily life in Baghdad under siege.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Anderson's essay shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and were adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Definitive edition of the most influential political call to arms ever written, now in paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Definitive edition of the most influential political call to arms ever written, now in paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Rigoberta Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. This book conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The essential "on the ground" report on the fastest growing new threat in the Middle East.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled to Iraq, and has covered the war from Baghdad. Here, he describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam Hussein's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, and the emergence of the resistance into uprising. He also paints a portrait of daily life in Baghdad under siege.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This work examines the biases which underpin mainstream development thought and accounts for the marginal status given to women's needs and interests in current development policy. It explores the central issue of population control and argues for the transformation of development institutions.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This work examines the biases which underpin mainstream development thought and accounts for the marginal status given to women's needs and interests in current development policy. It explores the central issue of population control and argues for the transformation of development institutions.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. An engrossing, fascinating report from inside Anonymous, by the scholar who was embedded in the international movement.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. An engrossing, fascinating account from inside Anonymous becomes a page-turning tale of political intrigue, spies and surveillance.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A riveting, immersive investigative expose of the corrupt and violent side of the globe's key industry.

Paperback. Condition: Good. With characteristic honesty, Lennon discusses the break up of the Beatles, his favourite tracks with the group and how they were made, fellow musicians including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, his attitude towards revolution and drugs and his relationship with Yoko Ono.…