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  • Crack-Up Capitalism

    Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bill Gates Problem

    Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

    by Tim Schwab ...
    A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountabilityThrough his vaunted philanthropy, Bill Gates transformed himself from a tech villain into one of the most admired people on the planet. Even as divorce proceedings and allegations of misconduct have recently tarnished his public image, the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Drinking the Sea at Gaza

    Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

    by Amira Hass ...
    Translated by Maxine Nunn ...
    In 1993, Amira Aass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kissinger's Shadow

    The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

    by Greg Grandin ...
    A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stanceIn his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America—its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home—we have to understand ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • My Life as a Russian Novel

    A Memoir

    by Emmanuel Carrère ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspenseIn work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kantika

    A Novel

    by Elizabeth Graver ...
    A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wrecking Crew

    How Conservatives Rule

    by Thomas Frank ...
    From the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misruleIn his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Retail Revolution

    How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change meansWal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    From the prophetic author of the now-classic What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important—and misunderstood—movement of our time.Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is ... Read more

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  • A Nation on Trial

    The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth

    by Norman G. Finkelstein, Ruth Bettina Birn ...
    No recent work of history has generated as much interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Purporting to solve the mystery of the Nazi holocaust, Goldhagen maintains that ordinary Germans were driven by fanatical anti-Semitism to murder the Jews. An immediate national best-seller, the book went on to create an international sensation.Now, in A Nation on Trial, two leading ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hegemony or Survival

    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    series American Empire Project
    From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to followThe United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood-the heavens-as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its skies are, for the Bush administration, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dreyfus

    Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

    by Ruth Harris ...
    The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the worldIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France apart, inflicting wounds on the society which have never fully healed.But how did a fairly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD