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  • - The Argument from Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Other Great Thinkers
    af G. S. Griffin
    168,95 kr.

    It has been widely reported how today''s young people in the USA are embracing socialism, which has been reflected by the rise of politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is not a new trend, however, as historical icons like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, and Gandhi, among many others, spoke boldly against capitalism and in support of socialism. Why America Needs Socialism presents a contemporary case for socialism built on the words and ideas of history''s greatest leaders, thinkers, and artists.

  • - The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border
    af Kelsey Freeman
    198,95 kr.

  • af Trevor Aaronson
    166,95 kr.

    A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: The Isis Edition exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror. This updated edition of The Terror Factory examines the FBI''s use of stings to catch ISIS sympathiSers in the United States, as well as how the bureau, already transformed into an intelligence agency whose tactics are similar to those of the CIA and NSA, has and will change under the presidency of Donald Trump.

  • - A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life
    af Paul Wachtel
    190,95 kr.

  • af Ron Tanner
    151,95 kr.

    In the Marshall Islands, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their "e;hosts,"e; the indigenous Marshallese, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It's 2004, the Iraq war is heating up, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone's minds. Following four interconnected story linesthe meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has "e;gone native"e; and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the StatesMissile Paradise is an epic, heartbreaking, and satirical novel about the clash of cultures between the Americans trying to realize their American Dream in this seeming paradise, and the Marshallese who are both angered and bedazzled by that dream.

  • af Sean Carswell
    151,95 kr.

    "e;Leave it to the audacious Sean Carswell to crack the code on this secret society of writers, especially after so many other publications (the Believer, Bitch, Vanity Fair) have tried and failed. I'm humbled and grateful to be immortalized in this wily, coltish collection with fellow strummers Flannery, Herman and weird old Uncle Thom."e;Pam Houston"e;On the surface, Carswell is a literary chameleon, moving effortlessly in and out of voices, genres, and styles, but underneath and above that, he is a born storyteller, always focused on his characters' hearts and minds and fitting ends."e;Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the DayWe all know Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Pam Houston. Now meet their metaphysical ukuleles.Mixing the flair of literary invention with real events in each writer's lifeHerman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O'Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord, and many moreSean Carswell takes the nonfiction of some our most famous writer's lives and turns it into exquisite fiction, with a ukulele thrown in for good measure. At times heartbreaking, at times absurd, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life, and what is literature.Sean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy, Train Wreck Girl, and Madhouse Fog, and the short story collections Barney's Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University, Channel Islands.

  • - Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
    af Joe Burns
    178,95 kr.

    During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and ultimately forcing reluctant politicians to pass laws allowing for collective bargaining and even the right to strike. Strike Back uncovers this history of militancy to provide tactics for a new generation of public employees facing unprecedented attacks on their labor rights.

  • af Vance Packard
    168,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1964, The Naked Society was the first book on the threats to privacy posed by new technologies such as modern surveillance techniques and methods for influencing human behavior. This all new edition of the book features an introduction by noted historian Rick Perlstein.

  • - How Separate But Equal Has Become the New Standard in
    af Robin Marty & Jessica Mason Pieklo
    151,95 kr.

    How the Right is making abortion illegal-one state at a time.

  • - How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood
    af Cheryl Dumesnil
    168,95 kr.

    Love Song for Baby X is the moving and humorous story of a lesbian couple's struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set against the backdrop of the marriage equality movement. While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of the high-tech fertility business, the emotional conundrum of pregnancy loss, and the gathering steam of the marriage equality movement. Love Song for Baby X follows Cheryl and her unlawfully wedded wife through four conceptions, three miscarriages, a temporarily legal wedding during San Francisco's Winter of Love in 2004, a stint as poster children for the marriage equality movement, and finally the arrival of their longed-for sonafter twenty-five hours of labor. Along the way Dumesnil fails often (and comically) in her attempts to cultivate inner peace. Though she struggles mightily with the opposing forces of hope and fear, in the end, she finds the middle ground between them: acceptance. Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall, and co-editor, with Kim Addonizio, of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Indiana Review, Calyx, and Many Mountains Moving, among other literary magazines. Her essays have appeared on literarymama.com, hipmama.com, mamazine.com, and in Hip Mama Zine. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their two sons.

  • af Christopher Narozny
    168,95 kr.

    Set in vaudeville in the early twentieth century, Jonah Man is a gripping and ultimately heartbreaking novel that reveals the often tragic lives of performers struggling to make it to the big time.Told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including a one-handed juggler who moonlights as a drug trafficker, a talented young boy who longs to escape the shadow of his abusive father, and a police inspector whose bumbling attempts to solve a murder result in a series of calamitous missteps, Jonah Man explores the dark side of life behind the curtain, where performers will resort to the most extreme measuresincluding drug dealing, self-mutilation, and even murderto keep their ever shrinking dream of becoming a star alive. Resurrecting the lost language and world of vaudevillea "e;Jonah Man"e; was a performer who, despite his best efforts, had stalled in his careerJonah Man is an unforgettable portrait of people trapped between their highest hopes and the crushing realties of their lives. Christopher Narozny earned an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Denver. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Marginalia, elimae, and Hobart. While at Syracuse he won the Peter Neagoe Prize for Fiction, and at the University of Denver he was awarded the Frankel Dissertation Fellowship for an earlier draft of Jonah Man. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

  • - Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
    af Trevor Aaronson
    188,95 - 236,95 kr.

  • - Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet
    af Kendra Pierre-Louis
    148,95 kr.

    The message that our environment is in peril has filtered from environmental groups to theAmerican consciousness to our shopping carts. Every day, millions of Americans dutifully replace conventional produce with organic, swap Mr. Clean for Seventh Generation, and replace their bottled water with water bottles. Many of us have come to believe that the path to environmental sustainability is paved by shopping green. Although this green consumer movement certainly has many Americans consuming differently, it raises an important and rarely asked question"e;is this consumption really any better for the planet?"e; By examining the major economic sectors of our society, including infrastructure (green housing), consumer goods (green clothing and jewelry), food (the rise of organic), and energy (including solar power and the popularity of the hybrid car), Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet explains that, though greener alternatives are important, we cannot simply buy our way to sustainability. Rather, if it is the volume of our consumption that matters, can we as a society dependent on constantly consuming ever be content with buying less? A new and unique take on green consumption, Green Washed shows how buying better is only the first step toward true sustainability. Kendra Pierre-Louis is the sustainable development editor for Justmeans.com. She holds a master's degree in sustainable development from the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. She has created outreach material for the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on Biological Diversity and worked as a researcher for Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm.

  • af Vance Packard
    213,95 kr.

    An expos of "e;the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals,"e; The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American lifethe development of consumption for consumption's sake. Packard outlines the ways manufacturers and advertisers persuade consumers to buy things they don't need and didn't know they wanted, including the two-of-a-kind of everything syndrome"e;two refrigerators in every home"e;and appeals to purchase something because it is more expensive, or because it is painted in a new color. The book also brought attention to the concept of planned obsolescence, in which a "e;death date"e; is built into products so that they wear out quickly and need to be replaced. By manipulating the public into mindless consumerism, Packard believed that business was making us "e;more wasteful, imprudent, and carefree in our consuming habits,"e; which was using up our natural resources at an alarming rate. A prescient book that predicted the rise of American consumer culture, this all new edition of The Waste Makers features an introduction by best-selling author Bill McKibben. Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Hidden Persuaders, about how advertisers use psychological methods to get people to buy the products they sell; The Status Seekers, which describes American social stratification and behavior; and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.

  • - Drinking and Diving in the Big Apple
    af Ben Westhoff
    115,95 kr.

    Sick of gentrification, $15 cosmopolitans, and clean bathrooms? Then this revised edition of the best-selling New York City's Best Dive Bars is the guide for you. Featuring all new reviews of one hundred of the best dive bars in the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding cities such as Jersey City and Hoboken, this book takes you where other bar guides fear to tread. Broken urinals and $2 PBRS? Yes!

  • af Angie Chau
    158,95 kr.

    "e;Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once."e;Sandra Cisneros"e;We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the first twenty years in America felt for thousands of Vietnamese families who fled to San Francisco to escape the Vietnam War. Angie Chau writes with humor, intensity and forgiveness about lives full of danger, insult, momentary reprieve, unending tenacity and undying hope."e;Pam Houston"e;Quiet As They Come is a beautifully rendered, intimate, and dramatic story of family and country. Each character is drawn with such honesty and generosity, such insight and imagination. Angie Chau has impressed and enthralled me and I was very sorry to come to the last page."e;Karen Joy FowlerQuiet As They Come announces the arrival of an astonishing literary talent with a great deal to say about the intricacies of family life, coming of age, emigration, andabove andabove allthe treasures buried in the human heart.Carolina De Robertis, author of The Invisible MountainQuiet As They Come is a beautiful and at times brutal portrait of a people caught between two cultures. Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of several families of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country, often haunted by the memories and customs of their old lives in Vietnam. While some are able to survive and assimilate, others are crushed by the promise of the "e;American Dream."e; No matter their fate, you will never be able to forget the people you meet in thisremarkable collection.Angie Chau was born in Vietnam and has since lived on three continents and an island. She graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of California, Davis where she also taught undergraduate fiction and was the fiction editor for The Greenbelt Review. She has been awarded a Hedgebrook Residency and a Macondo Foundation Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Santa Clara Review, Slant, and the anthology Cheers to Muses. In 2009, she won the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction.

  • - Drinking and Diving in Beantown
    af Luke O'Neil
    115,95 kr.

    Boston's Best Dive Bars features opinionated reviews of 100 of the grungiest and grittiest drinking establishments in Beantown. If you want to avoid the tourist traps listed in those "e;other"e; bar guides and find out where real Bostonians do their drinking, then this is the book for you.Luke O'Neil has been covering arts and nightlife in Boston for ten years. For years he wrote a popular column called Barcode in The Boston Globe, where he still writes about cocktails and the restaurant and bar scene. He also pens a bar column called Thursty in the Boston Metro, the Liquid column in Stuff Magazine, and has written about bars for Boston Magazine and Black Book.

  • - Drinking and Diving in the City of Angels
    af Lina Lecaro
    118,95 kr.

    "Los Angeles's Best Dive Bars" offers opinionated reviews of one hundred of the grittiest drinking establishments in the City of Angels. If you want to avoid the tourist traps listed in those "other" bar guides and find out where the non-glitzy crowd goes to get wasted, then "Los Angeles's Best Dive Bars" is your guide to the delightfully filthy underside of Los Angeles bar life.Lina Lecaro is a columnist at "LA Weekly."

  • - How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America
    af Joe Burns
    208,95 kr.

    If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding industries to a haltthe kind employed up until the 1960s.In Reviving the Strike, union negotiator Joe Burns draws on labor economics, history, and current analysis to show how only a campaign of civil disobedience can overcome an illegitimate system of labor control that has been specifically constructed over the past thirty years to reign in the power of the American worker. The book challenges prevailing views within the labor movement that say that tactics such as organizing workers or amending labor law can resolve the crisis of the American worker. Instead, Reviving the Strike offers a fundamentally different solution to the current labor crisis, showing how collective bargaining backed by a strike capable of inflicting economic harm upon an employer is the only way for workers to break free of the repressive system that has been inflicted upon them for the past three decades.Joe Burns is a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer, and a former local union president. For the past decade, he has negotiated labor contracts in the airline and health care industries. He has a law degree from the New York University School of Law.

  • - How the Christian Right is Hijacking Mainstream Religion
    af Sheldon Culver
    198,95 kr.

    Exposing the feligious Right's "shadow war" against mainstream religion.

  • - A Memoir of Dancing Naked
    af Rania Zada
    131,95 kr.

  • af Jean Rolin
    158,95 kr.

  • - Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America
    af Jonathan Tasini
    168,95 kr.

    Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history. While billions of dollars streamed into the pockets of a few elites in the corporate and economic class, the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions, and dwindling bank accountsall of which lead to the personal debt crisis that lies at the root of the current financial meltdown. This "e;audacity of greed"e; was legally blessed by the ethos of the "e;free market,"e; a phony marketing phrase that covered up the fleecing of the American public.In The Audacity of Greed, Jonathan Tasini examines the reasons and exposes the people responsible for the looting of Americafrom Wall Street executives who funded their lavish lifestyles at the public's expense to the politicians who let it happenarguing that we need a cultural and philosophical revolution that punctures the fable of market fundamentalism and, by doing so, values the contributions made by ordinary Americans throughout the economy.Jonathan Tasini is executive director of the Labor Research Association. The longtime president of the National Writers Union, he was the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. The New York Times, the landmark electronic rights case that took on the corporate media's assault on the rights of freelance authors. In 2006 he ran against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in New York. He has written about labor and economics for a variety of publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on CNBC and Fox News.

  • - The Future of Faith and Politics in America
     
    168,95 kr.

  • af William Appleman Williams
    198,95 kr.

    A groundbreaking work on the history of American imperialism and empire.

  • - Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections)
    af Jeffrey Feldman
    158,95 kr.

    How Progressives can "frame" language to take control of the political debate.

  • af Vance Packard
    156,95 kr.

    One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising.--SalonFascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating.--The New York Times Book ReviewA brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command--The New YorkerOriginally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packard's pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to persuade us to buy the products they are selling.A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of ';motivation research,' the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard shows how the insidious manipulation practices that have come to dominate today's corporate-driven world began. Featuring an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, The Hidden Persuaders has sold over one million copies, and forever changed the way we look at the world of advertising.Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Status Seekers, which described American social stratification and behavior, The Waste Makers, which criticizes planned obsolescence, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.

  • - How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World
    af Lara Frater
    136,95 kr.

    The only book on how to live the big girl's life with style and flair.

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