Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0745327346 ISBN 13: 9780745327341
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. "This superior and remarkably thorough study of the Holy Land enigma is strongly recommended as an introduction."---Choice"An indispensable, basic introduction. . There is no better single volume."---Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto and author of Another Century of War?"Gregory Harms has taken an enormously complex issue and made it engagingly accessible. An intelligent, thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to a terribly and consistently misunderstood conflict."---Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and author of Failing PeaceThe Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period. This is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full 2,000-year history of the region, from biblical times until today. Perfect for the general reader, as well as students, it offers a comprehensive yet lucid rendering of the conflict, setting it in its proper historical context. Harms and Ferry show how today's violence is very much a product of recent history, with its roots in the twentieth century.This balanced account is now fully up-to-date and makes a valuable resource for anyone who wants a clear guide to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and its place in the history of Middle Eastern affairs.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0745318576 ISBN 13: 9780745318578
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The ABCs of Political Economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Veblen, Kalecki and other great political economists, Robin Hahnel teaches the reader the essential tools necessary to understand economic issues today from a modern perspective, searching for ways to replace the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable co-operation. The ABCs of Political Economy empowers people who are dissatisfied with today's economies but are often intimidated by conventional economic analysis. No previous economics background is assumed, and everything is explained in verbal form in eight core chapters.Examining the nature of today's economic market, issues of economic justice, macroeconomics and globalization, Robin Hahnel provides an ideal introduction to key economic ideas, offering a critical perspective on our present system and outlining clear alternatives for the future.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0745315321 ISBN 13: 9780745315324
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This report is not what is seems. It is written entirely by the leading development specialist Susan George. Although a spoof report, it is based on fact and illustrates the logical processes of the world economy as we approach the new century. Written from the perspective of one in broad support of the systems of global power, Susan George is in fact deeply critical of the state of the world. Through her unique style of approach to her subject, George paints a worrying picture of the world over the next 25 years. The book diagnoses the current state of the world and considers feasible alternative strategies and solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Prepared from a joint initiative by anonymous world leaders, it is presented as a confidential report. "Lugano" identifies the threats to the free market capitalist system, and the obstacles to its generalisation and preservation as we enter the millennium, and recommends strategies to maximise the probability that the free market globalised system will prevail. It warns of the imminent collapse of the world economic system and pinpoints precisely where the dangers lie, the impact of this on the "haves" - the people who hold power - and on the "have nots" -the poor and excluded.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0745312748 ISBN 13: 9780745312743
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0745314252 ISBN 13: 9780745314259
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A remarkable insight into Weimar Germany through the collected writings of one of the best journalists of the period.
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 074531385X ISBN 13: 9780745313856
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context. This is a timely, concise history of a major discipline, in an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, that will appeal to students of anthropology worldwide.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0904383563 ISBN 13: 9780904383560
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Revised edition. In this study of women from the Puritan revolution to the 1930s, the author shows how class and sex, work and family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's struggles for equality.
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0745330762 ISBN 13: 9780745330761
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New. This is a new edition of the world's leading textbook on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen languages, David Randall's handbook is an invaluable guide to the "universals" of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide. Irrespective of language or culture, good journalists share a common commitment to the search for truth, often in difficult circumstances. David Randall emphasizes that good journalism isn't just about universal objectives: it must also involve the acquisition of a range of skills that will empower journalists to operate in an industry where ownership, technology and information are constantly changing. This acclaimed handbook challenges old attitudes, procedures and techniques of journalism where they are seen as cynical and sloppy. This fully updated edition contains scores of new anecdotes and examples, drawing on the author's own experience as a national newspaper reporter and columnist.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0745317006 ISBN 13: 9780745317007
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) was the most famous revolutionary of the twentieth century. Born in Argentina, Che grew up in a bohemian family and went on to train as a physician. As a young doctor travelling throughout Latin America, he experienced a political awakening that altered the course of his life. He participated in the 1952 riots against the dictator Juan Péron in Argentina, joined agitators in Bolivia, worked for the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala and, when Arbenz was overthrown in 1954, fled to Mexico, where he first met Fidel Castro. Che became one of Castro's closest and most trusted friends, and after the 1956 rebel invasion of Cuba became his chief lieutenant. Che proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader and was instrumental in establishing the Communist state in Cuba. He continued to foster revolutionary activity in other countries until the time of his death in 1967 when he was captured and executed by government troops in Bolivia while directing a guerrilla group there.Che: Images of Revolutionary features 400 photographs-many of them never before published. The book follows Ches life from early childhood to political activist to his death. Writings, including Ches own speeches, pieces from Fidel Castro and an elegy by Allen Ginsberg, complement the visually stunning photographs in this large format collection. The book is a result of exhaustive research in public and private archives in Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia, Europe and North America. A concluding chapter discusses the Guevara myth from his death until the present day.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0745324665 ISBN 13: 9780745324661
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. A new, updated edition of John Holloway's acclaimed guide to the politics of revolution and protest.The wave of political demonstrations since Seattle have crystallized a new trend in left-wing politics. Modern protest movements are grounding their actions in both Marxism and Anarchism, fighting for radical social change in terms that have nothing to do with the taking of state power. This is in clear opposition to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution which centers on taking state power. In this book, the author asks how we can reformulate our understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power. After a century of failed attempts by revolutionary and reformist movements to bring about radical social change, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis.Holloway opens up the theoretical debate, reposing some of the basic concepts of Marxism in a critical development of the subversive Marxist tradition represented by Adorno, Bloch, and Lukacs, among others, and grounded in a rethinking if Marx's concept of "fetishization"---How doing is transformed into being.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0745325920 ISBN 13: 9780745325927
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2. -- Shows how we must engage with Al Qaeda to defeat terrorism -- "Mohamedou provides a much-needed secular understanding of Al Qaeda. Unlike most writers, [he] insists on understanding the changing significance of [Al Qaeda's] discourse against a histor.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 074532309X ISBN 13: 9780745323091
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New Ed. This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil enjoy a controversially close relationship. The US economy relies upon the cheap and unlimited supply of this single fuel. William Engdahl takes the reader through a history of the oil industry's grip on the world economy. His revelations are startling.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 9053304959 ISBN 13: 9789053304952
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Play is precious to children. It is a time for growing and learning or just having fun. The toys children play with tell us much about their lives. Many poorer children can't take them for granted. They may have to work, or fight a war, or they are refugees on the run. Yet even in the worst situations you find children making do with wonderfully improvised toys made from tin cans, wire or wood, whatever they can lay their hands on. This stunning book of photographs celebrates the joy of toys and playing for children the world over. Inspired by his own children, Julio Etchart travelled the globe and photographed children from China to South America, playing with eveything from cardboard boxes and string to Barbie dolls.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0745313477 ISBN 13: 9780745313474
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. In this bold new look at the recent uncontrolled spread of global capitalism, John McMurtry, professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, develops the metaphor of modern capitalism as a cancer. Its invasive growth, he argues, threatens to break down our society's immune system and--if not soon restrained--could reverse all the progress that has been made toward social equity and stability. On every continent, in every state, there are indicators of profound economic and environmental collapse. From the lands of indigenous communities to the currency markets of Asia, from the ocean floors to the ozone layer, the collapse is all-encompassing and deep-reaching. John McMurtry traces the causes of this global disorder back to the mutating assumptions of market theory that now govern the worlds economy. He diagnoses the malaise as a pathologist would a biological cancer, tracking the delinked circuits of the global systems monetised growth as a carcinogenic disorder at the social level of life-organization. In the wide-lensed tradition of Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes, McMurtry cuts across academic disciplines and boundaries to penetrate the inner logic of the systems problems. Far from pessimistic, he argues that the way out of the global crisis is to be found in an evolving substructure of history which provides a common ground of resolution across ethnic and national divisions. Reaching beyond conventional textbooks, this fascinating study offers a new paradigm which is accessible to intelligent citizens the world over.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0861043642 ISBN 13: 9780861043644
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. André Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social movements such as the womens movement and the green movement, and all those who refuse to accept the work ethic so fundamental to early capitalist societies. Provocative and heretical, Farewell to the Working Class is a classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world.
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0745317723 ISBN 13: 9780745317724
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 1853050776 ISBN 13: 9781853050770
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New edition. Rudolf Rocker's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to anarchist thought and an authoritative account of the early history of international anarchism by one of the movement's leading figures.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0745324371 ISBN 13: 9780745324371
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Softcover. Condition: Good. -- A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries --"Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Leban.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 074530009X ISBN 13: 9780745300092
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0745305172 ISBN 13: 9780745305172
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. An account of the life and work of William Thompson, an Irish landowner who was an important theoretician of the early socialist movement. Thompson described himself as "one of the idle classes", living off "rent, the produce of the labour of others" So he set himself the task of finding out how Labour might acquire the whole product of its labour, and the claims of Capital and Labour might be "conciliated" - all this 20 years before the writings of Marx and Engels. The book covers Thompson's writings on wealth, exploitation, population, unions and religion, his practical directives in the formation of co-operative communities and his feelings about the position of women in early 19th century society.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0745322271 ISBN 13: 9780745322278
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jeff Halper's book, like his life's work, is an inspiration. Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, he offers one of the most insightful analyses of the occupation I've read. His voice cries out to be heard.Jonathan Cook, author of Blood and Religion (2006) and Israel and the Clash of Civilisations (2008)In this book, the Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without imposing on the country's Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation and discrimination, expressed most graphically in its ongoing demolition of thousands of Palestinian homes, both inside Israel and in the Occupied Territories.An Israeli in Palestine records Halper's journey 'beyond the membrane' that shields his people from the harsh realities of Palestinian life to his 'discovery' that he was actually living in another country: Palestine. Without dismissing the legitimacy of his own country, he realises that Israel is defined by its oppressive relationship to the Palestinians. Pleading for a view of Israel as a real, living country which must by necessity evolve and change, Halper asks whether the idea of an ethnically pure 'Jewish State' is still viable. More to the point, he offers ways in which Israel can redeem itself through a cultural Zionism upon which regional peace and reconciliation are attainable.
Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0745319890 ISBN 13: 9780745319896
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New. Michael Hudson's brilliant shattering book will leave orthodox economists spluttering. Classical economists don't like to be reminded of the ugly realities of Imperialism. Hudson is one of the tiny handful of economic thinkers in today's world who are forcing us to look at old questions in startling new ways. Alvin Toffler, best-selling author of Future Shock and The Third WaveThis new and completely revised edition of Super Imperialism describes the genesis of America's political and financial domination. Michael Hudson's in-depth and highly controversial study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception which -- he argues -- were intended to preserve the US's financial hegemony. Difficult to detect at the time, these problems have since become explicit as the failure of the international economic system has become apparent; the IMF and World Bank were set up to give aid to developing countries, but instead many of the world's poorest countries have been plunged into insurmountable debt crises. Hudson's critique of the destructive course of the international economic system provides important insights into the real motivations at the heart of these institutions - and the increasing tide of opposition that they face around the world.
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Published by Brand: London : Pluto Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0902818546 ISBN 13: 9780902818545
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1977
ISBN 10: 0904383628 ISBN 13: 9780904383621
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Published by Brand: Pluto Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 0902818856 ISBN 13: 9780902818859
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