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By: Eileen Markey

ISBN: 9781568585734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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An intimate biography of the missionary Catholic nun Maura Clarke, chronicling her spiritual and political journey from a tight-knit Irish community in Queens to radical, faith-based activism in Central America and her death at the hands of the Salvadoran military in 1980.


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By: Avraham Burg

ISBN: 9781568589787
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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The unorthodox former speaker of the Knesset offers a his clear-eyed assessment of Zionism's failings and what the future holds for Israel and for Judaism


(Paperback)

By: Sarah Jaffe

ISBN: 9781568589923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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A rising star in progressive journalism presents a deeply reported exploration of the political and social movements that have arisen since the 2008 financial crisis, revealing how ordinary Americans across political beliefs struggle for change, and charting the effectiveness of new forms of resistance.


(Hardback)

By: John Nichols

ISBN: 9781568585215
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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This rousing critique sounds the alarm on how job automation, combined with stagnant capitalism, will generate unemployment and misery. The only solution is a renewal of democracy that lets citizens-not multinational corporations-chart the future.


(Paperback)

By: Delphine Schrank

ISBN: 9781568585086
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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By: David Kushner

ISBN: 9781568585598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Here in graphic form, the epic story of Gary Gygax and how the game he created, Dungeons & Dragons, became a cult hit and lay the foundations of role play.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Dreier

ISBN: 9781568586816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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By: David Pietrusza

ISBN: 9780786721023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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A vivid portrait of the election that shaped modern America


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By: Perseus

ISBN: 9780786709465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness,all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the centre of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility.


(Paperback)

By: Clifford Conner

ISBN: 9781560257486
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2005
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Roll over Galileo. You, too, Bacon, Newton, and Descartes. When it comes to taking credit for creating modern science, you fellows have held the limelight far too long.


(Paperback)

By: Jimmy Carter

ISBN: 9781560258025
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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A ground-breaking retelling of the first Palestinian intifada that describes a little known non-violent, social mobilization movement that was led by women


(Paperback)

By: Wadad Cortas

ISBN: 9781568584294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Written with eloquence, compassion, and fierce intelligence, The World I Loved takes us on an unforgettable journey through twentieth-century Lebanon


(Paperback)

By: Dilip Hiro

ISBN: 9781568587134
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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"[Hiro's] challenging, even contrarian account of [a multipolar, multivalent world] should be required reading." --Financial Times


(Hardback)

By: Nir Rosen

ISBN: 9781568584010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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As Iraq confronts a bleak and uncertain future and instability spreads throughout the region, an award winning journalist describes the new shape of the Middle East


(Paperback)

By: Nomi Prins

ISBN: 9781568584799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2015
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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"The relationship between Washington and Wall Street isn't really a revolving door. Its a merry-go-round. And, as Prins shows, the merriest of all are the bankers and financiers that get rich off the relationship, using their public offices and access to build private wealth and power. Disturbing and important." -Robert B. Reich


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By: Brian Cruver

ISBN: 9780786712052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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An Enron insider provides an eyewitness view of the rise and fall of the powerful corporation, describing the greed, financial shenanigans, insider stock trades, fraudulent partnerships, and double-dealing attitudes that led to Enron's scandalous destruction


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By: Perseus

ISBN: 9780786706181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how "the Black Ajax" became as famous a figure in England as Napoleon -- and just as much a threat to its establishment -- before he passed into boxing legend and created a precedent for modern black prizefighters.


(Paperback)

By: Michel Beuret

ISBN: 9781568586144
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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The dramatic--and largely unknown--story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it will transform geopolitics


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By: Chris Hedges

ISBN: 9781568584164
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq


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By: Chris Hedges

ISBN: 9781568586793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2011
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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The liberal class is facing an untimely demise of its own making. In this provocative new work Chris Hedges explains how liberals sold us out, bankrupted the country and now face a crisis of their own.


(Paperback)

By: Melissa Mahle

ISBN: 9781560258278
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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A gripping, insider's view of the CIA by former spy, Melissa Boyle Mahle


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By: Robert W McChesney

ISBN: 9781568589534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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"John Nichols and Bob McChesney make a compelling, and terrifying, case that American democracy is becoming American dollarocracy. Even more compelling, and hopeful, is their case for a radical reform agenda to take power back from the corporations and give it to the people." -Naomi Klein


(Paperback)

By: Frances Lappe

ISBN: 9781568587431
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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"Frances Moore Lappe brings us yet another gift in EcoMind. She cautions us to avoid the mental traps that block our thinking. She awakens us to our immense possibilities and potentials. She invites us to release our latent energies to be the change we want to see." " Vandana Shiva


(Paperback)

By: Robert Sherill

ISBN: 9781560257790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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The life and amazing times of an American dissident who has spent his whole life fighting first amendment abuses while being tailed by the FBI

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