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Author: Writers for the 99% & Writers for the 99%

For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors wh ...

Author: Michael Cox

In this timely and compelling new volume, Michael Cox aims to analyse the whole of the Bush era in a broader historical context. In a cogent and carefully argued analysis, he uncovers some of the fundamental assumptions ...

Author: Martin O'Neill & Thad Williamson

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy. Offers new and ...

Author: Matthew M. Aid

The shock of the 9/11 attacks sent the American intelligence community into hyperactive growth. Five hundred billion dollars of spending in the Bush-Cheney years turned the U.S. spy network into a monster: 200,000-plus e ...

Author: Thomas J. Badey

This Eleventh Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listi ...

Author: Wael Ghonim

"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power." Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite, Revolutions can begin. A new type of Revolution - Revolution 2.0 Wael Ghonim ...

Author: Gene Sharp

From Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp and based on his study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration. Now in its fourth edition, it was ori ...

Author: Eric Y. Shibuya

From Afghanistan and Sierra Leone to East Timor, the aftermath of any armed conflict presents a complex set of challenges. Whatever political agreements may have been reached, conflicts are often at risk of reigniting, a ...

Author: Sarah Van Gelder & Staff of Yes! Magazine

We Are the 99%

The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations-- something the political establishment and most media have long igno ...

Author: Thomas A. Easton

Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an ...

Author: Martin Pugh

As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society has rapidly become one of the most respected and widely read introductions to the history of mo ...

Author: Michael Savage

This One Book Can Stop Obama's Tyranny The USA or the USSA? The United States of America or the Union of Socialist States of America? That is the question.

Will President Obama transform the greatest engine of free ...

Author: Economist

Building on the hugely successful annual Economist "The World in..." publications, this essential guide to the twenty-first century captures the sweeping, fundamental trends that are changing the world faster than at any ...

Author: Michael Savage

This One Book Can Stop Obama's Tyranny

Welcome to the newly created "union of socialist states of america," a land where

Poverty is rewarded: Obama is actively creating a populace ever more slavishly dependen ...

Author: Michael Savage & Pete Larkin

Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama a ...

Author: Russ Feingold

Champion of progressives and liberals, former U.S. Senator Feingold explains from his unique view where America went wrong after September 11th and how to fix the mess.

Author: Francis Wheen

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events o ...

Author: Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy picked a hell of an election to cover: changes of leaders on both sides of politics, Australia's first woman Prime Minister, a hung parliament and a country not knowing who its Prime Minister was for nearl ...

Author: Rodney Cavalier

Written by former minister and Labor historian Rodney Cavalier, Power Crisis is an explosive account of the self-destruction of the New South Wales Labor government, which has seen a turnover of four premiers in five yea ...

Author: Dick Morris

President Obama's legislation has increased the federal government's massive, crippling debt - and resulted in a tidal wave of Republican victories in the 2010 midterm elections. Fueled by popular anger and a demand for ...