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Cigarettes

Tara Parker-Pope

• Paperback | Engels | Bazaar Book
• Cigarettes chronicles the controversies of a 350 billion dollar industry, telling the fast-paced business story of cigarettes--from seed to smoke--tha... Lees meer

Gun Show Nation

Joan Burbick

• Hardcover | Engels
• On progressive websites and in newspaper columns Gun Show Nation has become part of a lively debate on guns and democracy in America. "Burbick gets it... Lees meer

Inequality Matters

Jim Lardner, David Smith

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitari... Lees meer

Guantanamo

David Rose

• Hardcover | Engels
• Praised as a "tour-de-force deconstruction of Bush's supermax gulag" ( San Diego Union Tribune ) when first published in hardcover, Guantánamo makes s... Lees meer

Antiquities

Gregory Nagy

• Hardcover | Engels | Postwar French Thought
• Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthr... Lees meer

The One That Got Away

Zoe Wicomb

• Hardcover | Engels
• These short stories from the award-winning South African author "combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warm... Lees meer

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

• Paperback | Engels
• On the eve of the most significant trade agreement in recent Mexico-U.S. history, Judith Adler Hellman, a leading authority on Mexican politics, went ... Lees meer

Going Public

Judith Renyi

• Hardcover | Engels
• By undertaking to educate every single American child all the way through high school, the United States has set for itself a goal unrivaled by any ot... Lees meer

Radical Hollywood

Paul Buhle, David Wagner

• Paperback | Engels
• Radical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagn... Lees meer

Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau

• Hardcover | Engels
• The "heart-stopping" ( The Millions ), "richly layered" ( Brooklyn Rail ), "haunting, beautiful" ( BuzzFeed ) story of an escaped captive and the kill... Lees meer

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

Alain Mabanckou

• Hardcover | Engels
• A dazzling meditation on home-coming and belonging from one of "Africa's greatest writers" and the Man Booker International Prize finalist ( The Guard... Lees meer

Landscapes of Communism

Owen Hatherley

• Hardcover | Engels
• When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, e... Lees meer

The New American Crisis

• Paperback | Engels
• This work features some of America's leading activists and progressive thinkers examining the current conservative political climate and considering w... Lees meer

Offshore

Alain Deneault

• Hardcover | Engels
• Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers--from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru-- amou... Lees meer

The Sandglass

Romesh Gunesekera

• Hardcover | Engels
• Already hailed as "intricate and compelling" by the Times Literary Supplement , The Sandglass is a striking novel by Sri Lankan author Romesh Guneseke... Lees meer

Daniel

Henning Mankell

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The "haunting and fascinating" tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden... Lees meer

All That We Share

Jay Walljasper

• Paperback | Engels
• How you see the world is about to change. All That We Share is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you real... Lees meer

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Robert W McChesney, Victor Pickard

• Paperback | Engels
• Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." -- Library Journ... Lees meer

Monopolized

David Dayen

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the airlines we fly to the food we eat, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives--by one of our most intr... Lees meer

After the New Economy

Doug Henwood

• Paperback | Engels
• Rarely a day went by in the dizzy 1990s without some well-paid pundit heralding the triumphant arrival of a "New Economy." According to these financia... Lees meer

What the Night Tells the Day

Hector Bianciotti

• Hardcover | Engels
• Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homela... Lees meer

Utopistics

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

• Paperback | Engels
• The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics , Immanuel Wallers... Lees meer

Power

Michel Foucault

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) | nr. 3
• Part of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher's influential thinking... Lees meer

False Dawn

John Gray

• Paperback | Engels
• Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodo... Lees meer