Politics
| author: Paul F. Maul, Crimethinc Workers Collective, CrimethInc. Workers' Collective, | shelved under: Anarchism | | date: 2001 | publisher: Crimethinc Workers Collective | | content type: book | | description: Here is a review from Clamor Magazine. It sums up the general idea of the book pretty well, (and we know better than to try and describe it ourselves): "Less of a novel and more of an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It is the type of book you'd thumb through in the store and actually want to buy (or steal).
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| author: Joel Andreas (Illustrator) | shelved under: U.S. Imperialism | | date: 2004 | publisher: K Pres | | content type: book | | description: This book takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. It reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. An illustrated expose.
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| author: Dan Ollman and Sarah Price | shelved under: Non-Fiction DVD | | date: 2003 | publisher: Free Speech | | content type: dvd | | description: A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization's - and it's mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives.
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| author: Al Burian | shelved under: Writing | | date: 2010 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: Burn Collector compiles the first nine issues of Al Burian’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine. Beginning in the mid-nineties, Burian distributed his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene.
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| author: Nick Mamatas | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: Love. Politics. Parasitic manipulation. Julia Hernandez list her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then vanished without a trace. Well, perhaps one or two traces were left... With different personal consumption habits, Julia has slipped out of the world she new into the Simulacrum - a place between the cracks of our existence, from which human history is both guided and thwarted by conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders.
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| author: Edited by John Carroll and Robert Manne | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: 1992 | publisher: The Text Publishing Co. | | content type: book | | description: "Economic rationalism has a strangehold on national policy. Its slogans are delivered by both our major political parties and by the top ranks of the bureaucracy as though they are holy writ: deregulation, free trade, and the level playing field."
Part I: The Australian Tradition Under Threat
Part II: Overseas Models of Success
Part III: Rebuilding the Australian Economy
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34855311
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| author: Maurice Brinton | shelved under: Political Theory | | date: 1974 | publisher: Solidarity | | content type: book | | description: This book is an attempt to analyse the carious mechanisms whereby modern society manipulates its slaves into accepting their slavery and - at least in the short term - seems to succeed. It does not deal with 'police' and 'jails' as ordinarily conceived but with those internalised patterns of repression and coercion, and with those intellectual prisons in which the 'mass individual' is today entrapped.
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| author: Margaret Atwood | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: 2008 | publisher: Bloomsbury | | content type: book | | description: In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical, and insightful, "Payback" urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
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| author: Jo Littler | shelved under: Social Change/Activism | | date: 2009 | publisher: Maidenhead | | content type: book | | description: Ethical consumption, fair trade, consumer protests, brand backlashes, green goods, boycotts and down-shifting: these are all now familiar consumer activities - and in some cases, are almost mainstream. They are a part of the expanding field of 'radical consumption' in a world where we are encouraged to shop for change.
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| author: Iain Hampsher-Monk, | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: iley-Blackwel | publisher: | | content type: book | | description: Iain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers).
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