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Drinking Coffee Elsewhereby ZZ Packer
Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 12.99Z.Z. Packer's first collection of short stories is rich with unexpected turns, indelible images, and penetrating insight that belies someone so young. Her stories plunge us into the worlds of people living on the edge and to the flashpoints that make or break them, that shape their worldviews forever. In The Stranger, a third-grade girl tries to find her place in the microcosm of summer camp in the larger world in 1981 during the height of the Atlanta child murders. The girl's bathroom at camp is the setting for a clash between an all-black and an all-white Brownie troop in Brownies. Two young women prod the boundaries of friendship and love in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. more...
The Myth of Presidential Representationby B. Dan Wood
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 22.00The Myth of Presidential Representation evaluates the nature of American presidential representation, questioning the commonly held belief that presidents represent the community at large. more...
A People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 14.99Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor... more...
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyby Joseph A. Schumpeter; Joseph Stiglitz
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 26.95A work of social theory. It contributes to the way for a balanced consideration of some of the most important social movements. more...
Closing of the American Mindby Allan Bloom
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 12.99The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change. more...
The Battle for Egyptby Yasmine El Rashidi; Timothy Garton Ash
New York Review of Books 2011; US$ 4.99In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, to the subsequent military takeover and the March 2011 constitutional referendum. Drawing on her deep knowledge of the Egyptian capital and its underlying social divisions, El Rashidi brings together a vivid story of the uprising itself with subtle insights about the strengths—and limits—of the protest movement and the prospects for large-scale political change i n the September 2011 parliamentary... more...
The Age of Austerityby Thomas Byrne Edsall
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 12.99One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials... more...
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyby Joseph A. Schumpeter
Routledge 1994; US$ 70.00With its original contribution to the consideration of the most important social movements of our time, this book has become one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. more...
Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracyby Anthony H. Birch
Routledge 2000; US$ 55.95The second edition of this highly successful and widely used textbook has been updated to include new areas such as Nation-states; the internet; more on nationalism; notion of governance. more...
Democracy in the Digital Ageby Anthony G. Wilhelm
Routledge 2000; US$ 45.95A fascinating and incisive treatment of a hot topic. This is a philosophical exploration of how emerging information and communication technologies are impacting on political participation in the United States. more...