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Concerned with the "American Dream", the author of the text discusses the ideals and aspirations with businessmen enamoured of success, farm kids dreaming of the city, city boys determined to get out, the Boston Brahmin and KKK members.

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This volume provides a history of the way in which war has transformed modern society, as well as a political analysis of the ways in which wars have been waged. Professor Kolko focuses on World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War as evidence for his study.

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The 'gripping' (New York Times) and 'Hitchcockian'(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation's largest banks.

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Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's code of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war.

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Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, this book chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race and personal history. It is an interesting survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century.

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Argues that Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilisation, development and progress, that originate from sixteenth century debates on the ethics of the Spanish conquest of the Americas.

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Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.

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This classic collection of Chomsky essays demonstrates his power as a political thinker. In his biting critiques of American foreign policy, the collection showcases Chomsky's ability to join broader philosophical concerns with the political realities of his time.

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Talks about nature/environment and ecology.

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Edited and introduced by multi-platinum musician Moby, this is an irresistible guide to setting down the sirloin and reaching for the tofu.

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NOW IN PAPERBACK The "elegant but harrowing" (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern-day form of torture

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Is the story of twenty one year old Ilka Weissnix's adventures in America, having survived Hitler and the war. On a trip to the West Ilka find "her first American", Carter Bayoux, a troubled black intellectual. Through his eyes she sees America in all its hilarity and barbarity.

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From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism

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From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates previously untold aspects of Sartre's private, political, and literary life, in a new edition of the acclaimed biography, honoring the centennial of Sartre's birth.

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A definitive account from a leading expert on the nature of cults and those who are susceptible.