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The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: The Families Speak Out
Author: Edited and Introduced by Eamonn McCann Published: November 2005 ISBN: HB 0 74532 511 4 PB 0 74532 510 6 Subject: Irish Studies |Current Affairs | The story of the longest legal proceedings in British history in the raw words of those most intimately involved.
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Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
Author: Robert Albritton Published: March 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745328072 PB 9780745328065 Subject: Economics; Environment This is the first book to analyse the food industry from a Marxist perspective.
Respected economist Robert Albritton argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25% o
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War and Empire: The American Way of Life
Author: Paul L. Atwood Published: January 2010 ISBN: PB 9780745327648 Subject: Politics; International studies In this provocative study, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion.
In his long teaching career, Atwood has found that most students know virtually nothing about America's in
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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story
Author: Ramzy Baroud Published: December 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745328829 PB 9780745328812 Subject: Middle East Studies Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence.
Ramzy Baroud tells
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The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies
Author: Tom Behan Published: June 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745326955 PB 9780745326948 Subject: International studies; History One of the enduring myths about World War Two is that only the Allies liberated occupied Europe. Many countries had anti-fascist Resistance movements, and Italy's was one of the biggest and most politically radical yet it remains relatively unknown outsi
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Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy
Author: John R. Bell Published: September 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745329345 PB 9780745329338 Subject: Economics From the 1960s to the 1990s the ground-breaking Japanese economists Kozo Uno and Thomas Sekine developed a masterful reconfiguration of Marxist economics. The most well-known aspect of which is the levels of analysis approach to the study of capitalism.
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Money and Power: Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development
Author: Sarah Bracking Published: April 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745320120 PB 9780745320113 Subject: Economics; Development Studies -- Examines why southern states are still experiencing mass poverty after over sixty years of 'development' --
Sarah Bracking explores the role of governments and development finance institutions in managing the markets in which the poorest countries op
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Mining in Africa: Regulation and Development
Author: Edited by Bonnie Campbell Published: May 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745329406 PB 9780745329390 Subject: International studies; Development Studies The continent of Africa is rich in minerals needed by Western economies, but rather than forming the basis for economic growth the mining industry contributes very little to African development
Investigating the impact of the 2003 Extractive Industries
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People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity
Author: Edited by Howard Clark Published: August 2009 ISBN: PB 9780745329017 Subject: Politics Across the world, nonviolent movements are at the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements.
The contrib
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Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis
Author: Douglas Dowd Published: September 2009 ISBN: PB 9780745329437 Subject: Economics Inequality, per se, has been with us for millennia. With the creation, growth and deepening of Capitalism across the globe, inequalities take on new dimensions, unknown in previous eras. As Capitalism has spread its wings across the globe over the last
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