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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: Good. 'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. What Cablegate tells us about the scope of US foreign policy around the world.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The classic biography of the radical French philosopher.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A radical travel guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Fascinating story of the remarkable resurgence of extremists in the United States by acclaimed investigative reporter.

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.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. How a Mexican American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America's corrupt asylum process.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world', Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. This title presents the history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle. It takes us on a illustrated tour of Times Square.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Offers an examination of Japan's postwar transformation into the "Great Britain of the Far East". Exploring postwar Japan's relationship with America, this title contends that US pressure has been steadily applied to bring Japan in line with neoliberal principles.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Faced with a renascent Right and an enormous racist legacy, this book argues that the Black struggle has to move beyond existing strategies. What is required is a transformatist approach that retains distinctive Black cultural identity whilst uprooting the language and logic of inferiority.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Charting the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A radical travel guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

Hardback. Condition: Good. How a Mexican American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America's corrupt asylum process.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Asserts that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fascinating story of the remarkable resurgence of extremists in the United States by acclaimed investigative reporter.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration.

Hardback. Condition: Good. From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An exploration of a writer's search for her voice.

Paperback. Condition: Good. An exploration of a writer's search for her voice.

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

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

Hardback. Condition: Good. In recent years the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, the House of Saud, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social innovation to become a beacon for the region. International political manoeuvring, sports sponsorship, and the Vision 2030 programme with its vast architectural planning declare a bold future. But the murder in October 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul reveals a darker reality: one of intensifying political and religious repression. This is within the tumultuous context of the war in Yemen, sectarian rivalry with Iran, the crisis in Gaza, and volatile relations with the United States.Malise Ruthven, a leading commentator on Islamic affairs, reconstructs the nation's history. He shows how the royal house co-opted Wahhabism to consolidate its power and enforce authoritarianism in collusion with Western businesses and governments. Unholy Kingdom looks to the nation's future in the hands of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who touts the country's liberalisation while aggressively imposing his will upon the region.This essential book traces the shifting fault lines in the Middle East to determine Saudi Arabia's place in our volatile times. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A survey of Noam Chomsky's political writing. This book is an introduction to the basic ideas underlying this intellectual's critiques of the mass media and the new world order. It includes a summary of his visions of the future and his own brand of libertarian socialism.