The Age of Deception : Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Mohamed ElBaradei
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408822241
When he was unanimously elected Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1997, few could have forecast the dramatic role Mohamed ElBaradei would play in every key nuclear confrontation of the next twelve years. Dealing with the nuclear aspirations of Libya and North Korea, standing up to the Bush administration on Iraq, and managing the West's turbulent stand-off with ... More/Buy
The Anti-capitalist Resistance Comic Book
Gord Hill
Arsenal Pulp Press, PB, 9781551524443
In this startling, politically astute graphic novel, Gord Hill documents anti-capitalist resistance movements, from the 1999 'Battle of Seattle' against the WTO to the Toronto G20 summit in 2010 and ending with the Occupy demonstrations. The accounts, based on eyewitness testimony, paint a dramatic picture of activists who bring the crimes of governments and multinationals to the world's ... More/Buy
Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975 - 1976
Carina Hoang (ed)
Fremantle Press, HB, 9780987158406
The years 1975 to 1996 were witness to the largest mass migration in modern history, with more than a million people leaving their war-torn homeland, Vietnam, in search of safety. Forces migrations are usually fraught with danger and even hazard as the displaced people negotiate mountains, deserts and oceans in all kinds of weather. What was unique about the Vietnam ... More/Buy
CLICK2CHANGE: A Better World at Your Fingertips
Michael Norton
Turnaround Books, PB, 9781873262801
The recent activism film Just Do It (2011) had a message: 'Get off your arse and change the world'. But, as Michael Norton here implores, no-one has to be that energetic. CLICK2CHANGE advocates sitting back and changing the world from computers, iPads and iPhones. Readers will find ideas, information and lots of websites to access, plus lots of suggestions for things ... More/Buy
Crisis in the Eurozone
Costas Lapvitsas
Verso Books, PB, 9781844679690
Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas presents a searing critique of the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly dissects the roots of the current financial turmoil and the European debt crisis. Lapavitsas argues that European austerity is contradictory because it leads to recession, and worsens the burden ... More/Buy
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
Melville House, PB, 9781612191812
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than ... More/Buy
Governmentality: Critical Encounters
William Walters
Routledge, PB, 9780415779548
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an ... More/Buy
The Great Debate: On Political Economy and Revolution
Ernesto Che Guevara et al
Ocean Press, PB, 9780980429206
Che Guevara and leading Marxist economists discuss political economy and the challenges of the revolutionary transformation of a capitalist society. This 'great debate', as it became known, related not only to Cuba's immediate economic problems following the 1959 revolution but also to the key concepts of Marxist theory and to the profound meaning of socialism itself. The debate assumed a ... More/Buy
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Alan Ryan
Princeton University Press, HB, 9780691148403
The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, has reflected on the past of the ... More/Buy
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M Conway
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408824832
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement ... More/Buy
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World
Evgeny Morozov
Penguin, PB, 9780141049571
We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle East's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook activism, technology would spread democracy and bring us together as never before. We couldn't have been more wrong. In The Net Delusion Evgeny Morozov shows why internet freedom is an illusion. Not only that - in many cases the net is actually helping ... More/Buy
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
Martha C Nussbaum
Harvard University Press, HB, 9780674065901
What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural centre in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? Martha C. ... More/Buy
The Oil Road: A Journey to the Heart of the Energy Economy
James Marriott, Mika Minio-Paluello
Verso Books, PB, 9781844676460
Opening in 2006 after ten years in the making, British Petroleum's $4 billion pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has become an icon of globalization. Over a thousand miles long, it weaves a route around the Russian and Iranian borders, transporting oil and gas to hungry Western markets. Bringing to bear a wealth of expertise on their subject, ... More/Buy
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Profile Books, PB, 9781846682575
Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of ... More/Buy
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Elizabeth L Cline
Penguin, HB, 9781591844617
Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. Elizabeth Cline argues that this rapid cycle of consumption isn't just erasing our sense of style and causing massive harm to the environment and human rights-it's also bad for our souls. ... More/Buy
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
Tracy B Strong
Chicago University Press, HB, 9780226777467
From Plato through the 19th century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government & society. Now, for the first time in more than 2000 years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the 20th & 21st centuries has left us effectively ‘thinking ... More/Buy
The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity
Vivienne Jabri
Routledge, PB, 9780415682114
How is the terrain of the international defined, interpreted, and engaged in the postcolonial world? Drawing on a number of examples and writers from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, this book explores the transition from colonial modernity to the contemporary postcolonial era. It explores the different discourses, cultural practices, and political tensions which have helped to create ... More/Buy
The Secret History of Democracy
Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell
Palgrave, PB, 9780230375109
Could democracy have a 'secret' history? Most of us are familiar with a history of democracy that emphasises the keystone moments in the story of Western civilization: the achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the more recent development of the British parliament, the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution, and the gradual global spread of democracy since the ... More/Buy
This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and Israel
David Goldberg
Faber, HB, 9780571271610
Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts them head on. He argues that it is wrong to equate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, that it is ... More/Buy
The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limits of Nations and The Pursuit and The Pursuit of a New Politics
Mark Malloch Brown
Penguin, PB, 9780141035376
In the twenty-first century our economies are more globalized than ever - why not our politics too? In The Unfinished Global Revolution former UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch-Brown argues that national governments are no longer equipped to address such complex global issues as climate change and poverty. Increasingly NGOs, civil society and the private sector are filling in the gaps. Drawing ... More/Buy
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael Sandel
Allen Lane, PB, 9781846144721
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, or auctioning admission to elite universities? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In ... More/Buy