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Displaying records 121 through 130 of 2006 |
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $28.50
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Myra Marx Ferree::Beth B. Hess
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.420973
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Publication Date: 2000
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the important developments of the recent women's movement. This edition includes a new introduction by the authors that covers the rise of global feminism.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $13.96
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chol-hwan Kang::Pierre Rigoulot
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 365.45092
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Publication Date: 2002-09
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Random House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roger Cohen
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Publisher: Random House
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 949.703
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Publication Date: 1998-08-25
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Reading Level: 523
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Description: The 73-year life span of Yugoslavia roughly coincides with what historians have called "the short 20th century," from the onset of World War I to the end of the cold war. It was always a tenuously constructed nation, and when it finally collapsed, Roger Cohen was there, dutifully filing reports for the New York Times. In Hearts Grown Brutal, he adds depth and personal drama to the stories of civil war and ethnicide, and he points an accusing finger at the Western nations who put the lie to any notion of a "new world order" by offering only half-hearted challenges to Serbian aggression until nearly 250,000 innocents had died and 2.7 million civilians had been driven from their homes. Cohen, like many Western analysts, observes that the clash between Muslim Bosnians, Catholic Croats, and Orthodox Serbs had been in the making for hundreds of years. But he locates the origins of the recent "collective madness"--as one Serbian leader called it--in World War II, when Croatia sided with the Nazis and when Serbia took the opportunity of the German invasion to settle old scores against Croats, Muslims, Jews, and Gypsies. Ordinary men and women of Yugoslavia committed extraordinary acts of inhumanity against one another during the war against Hitler. Post-Communist civil war gave them license to hate one another anew: when Serbia struck out at Bosnia and Croatia, all three nations fell into a frenzy of slaughter whose repercussions will be felt for generations to come. Hearts Grown Brutal is a somber, horrifying indictment of all involved that stands as an essential work of contemporary history. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: New Society Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neva Welton::Linda Wolf
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Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.2
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Publication Date: 2001-11-01
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: This visually and emotionally striking book reflects the new global youth movement for peace and justice. Told through compelling personal narratives, poster art, poetry, photographs, and interviews with new and seasoned activists, Global Uprising captures the spirit of youth activism and honors young people's power to effect serious change. It highlights a wide-range of critical international issues and actions.
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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $22.06
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Manufacturer: Pluto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dimitris Papadopoulos::Niamh Stephenson::Vassilis Tsianos
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Publisher: Pluto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-08-14
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies. Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of the journal Subjectivity and his work has appeared in various journals including Boundary 2; Culture, Theory & Critique; Darkmatter; and Ephemera. Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her most recent book, Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change (2006), was co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos. Vassilis Tsianos teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is co-editor of Empire and the Biopolitical Turn (2007) and Turbulent Margins: New Perspectives of Migration in Europe (2007).
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $7.73
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Manufacturer: New Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Taussig
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Publisher: New Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.609861
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A disturbing chronicle of the terror and uncertainty of daily life in Colombia's American-funded civil war. The town needs to get 300 coffins ready. Heads Up! The priest better be ready to work overtime.—flier from Colombian paramilitaries announcing their arrival In January 2003, US troops were sent to Colombia to train army units engaged in a bloody civil war, deepening a multi-billion-dollar American commitment that makes that country the third-largest recipient of US foreign aid. Despite the potential for disaster embodied in the US's looming entanglement with another jungle war, America's role in Colombia has received little critical media attention. The interlacing of terror, drugs and oil with endemic political instability makes the country a likely international flashpoint in the near future. In this stunning account of Colombian violence and disorder, acclaimed anthropologist Michael Taussig recounts two weeks in a village under siege by paramilitaries. Routinely visited by autodefensas brandishing weapons and a laptop containing a list of names, victims are rounded up, tortured, and killed, their bodies left on display as a warning to others. In his diary of the limpieza (the "cleaning"), Taussig offers unusual insight into the nature of Colombia's present peril and a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $2.03
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Manufacturer: Feral House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sam Smith
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Publisher: Feral House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300
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Publication Date: 2001-10-10
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Reading Level: 172
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Description: In a materialist culture where the safest defense is apathy, ignorance, or surrender, Sam Smith offers a gleam of hope. Drawing from sources ranging from philosophy and anthropology to the Internet and rock zines, from Kierkegaard to Humphrey Bogart to Rage Against the Machine, the veteran journalist confronts despair and alienation and suggests an alternative path of integrity, passion, and personal rebellion.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $22.90
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kenneth S. Stern
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1197
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Publication Date: 1994-03
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Reading Level: 373
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.48
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Manufacturer: New Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: New Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-01-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: An inspiring look at the politics of a generation through the words of one of the most iconic women of our time—illuminating thirty-five years of activism in the United States.
Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion collects Fonda's most stirring public statements from 1970 through 2005, in speeches, interviews, and articles from over thirty years of tireless campaigning against war and militarism and on behalf of women's rights, women's health, feminism, and the environment. Historian Mary Hershberger "has unearthed a treasure trove," according to Ms. magazine. "Whether discussing peace, feminism or girls' empowerment, [Fonda] is thoughtful, courageous and always committed to the betterment of others."
In 1970, at the height of an award-winning acting career, Jane Fonda took a sharp turn into politics. She would go on to play an influential role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in nearly every subsequent movement for social justice in the United States.
Hershberger has culled Fonda's words from a range of little-known and previously inaccessible sources, including the declassified FBI files obtained by Fonda herself in a federal lawsuit, and from antiwar movement archives that have never been made available to a general public.
Included in the volume are:
• Fonda's leading antiwar speeches from the early 1970s, from the historical archives of the Indochina Peace Campaign and other peace groups
• the FBI transcripts of Fonda's broadcasts over Radio Hanoi in 1972
• the transcript of Fonda's press conference in Paris after her Hanoi trip
• speeches and interviews on behalf of the antinuclear movement in the 1970s and 1980s
• a fascinating 1984 interview with Erica Jong
• speeches and interviews on feminism, international women's rights, and girls' self-esteem
• Fonda's most recent speeches against the war in Iraq
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Warren Goldstein
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 285.1092
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Publication Date: 2004-03-10
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin was the premiere voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City's Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography - based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives - tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin's life. An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the "Boston Five" trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980s. This book encompasses Coffin's turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.
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