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No Apology
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 16.99On his first presidential visit to address the European nations, President Obama felt it necessary to apologize for America?s international power. He repeated that apology when visiting Latin America, and again to Muslims worldwide in an interview broadcast on Al-Arabiya television. In No Apology , Mitt Romney asserts that American strength... more...
The Government of Self and Others
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 19.99This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of truth-telling, of speaking out freely, Foucault re-examines Greek citizenship, showing how the courage of the truth forms the forgotten ethical basis... more...
Diplomacy in the Digital Age
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 27.95Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks. Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape diplomacy for the times,... more...
Autobiographical International Relations
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 45.95This volume provides a novel approach to international relations. In the course of fifteen essays, scholars write about how life events brought them to their subject matter. They place their narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and history. Autobiographical International Relations believes that the fictive distancing associated... more...
Politics and the Criteria of Truth
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00In the post-positivist era in which Cartesian epistemology must be overcome we require a normative criterion of truth. Without it rationality of our beliefs and justifiability of our political acts are in question. This study seeks an epistemological criterion of truth that is attentive to the sociopolitical conditions that determine meaning more...
Grand Theories and Ideologies in the Social Sciences
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book analyzes the main competing grand theories in the social sciences, including developmentalism, dependency analysis, Marxism, institutionalism, rational choice, Freudianism, environmentalism, sociobiology, neurosciences, and transitions to democracy. more...
Marx Today
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 35.00This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars sympathetic to but critical of Marxism, including Heidi Hartmann's classic essay which criticizes Marxism for misunderstanding gender... more...
Time for Outrage
Grand Central Publishing 2011; US$ 5.99This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel -- Resistance leader, concentration... more...
Autodafe 3/4
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 17.95AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers. The contributors are all members of the International Parliament of Writers; the pieces are... more...
On the Record
Hachette Australia 2010; US$ 31.70From the days of Gough Whitlam, John Gorton, Billy McMahon and John McEwen, through the drama and radical change of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments, to the dramatic fall of Kevin Rudd and the battle between Julia Guillard and Tony Abbott, ON THE RECORD is essential reading for all those who follow politics. more...









