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  • Bringing Power Back Home: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale

    by John McClaughry, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Although for generations the government of Vermont rested with the administrators of its 246 towns, the past thirty years have seen a slow but steady growth of central power. According to John McClaughry, Vermonters are in danger of losing true ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

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  • Told You So

    The Big Book of Weekly Columns

    by Ralph Nader ...
    “What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”**—**The New York TimesThe column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents a panoramic portrait of the problems confronting our society and provides examples of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Breaking Through Power

    It's Easier Than We Think

    by Ralph Nader ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essential reading. Written just before Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, Nader’s latest book reads with even greater urgency now."--Yes MagazineIn Breaking Through Power, Ralph Nader draws from a ... Read more

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  • Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation

    by Walter Mosley ...
    In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens exist on the brink of poverty, and from that profound ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Republic, Lost

    How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. Federal Election ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • American Insurgents

    A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

    by Richard Seymour ...
    "Seymour's obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind."—ResurgenceAll empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism which gives the lie to this mythology. Richard Seymour ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Headscarf Debates

    Conflicts of National Belonging

    by Anna C. Korteweg, Gökçe Yurdakul ...
    The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Postcolonial Transitions in Europe

    Contexts, Practices and Politics

    Edited by Gianmaria Colpani, Sandra Ponzanesi ...
    Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontiers in contemporary Europe? Postcolonial Transitions in Europe explores these questions from different theoretical, geopolitical and media perspectives.Drawing from the interdisciplinary tools of postcolonial critique, this book contests the idea that Europe ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • First Person Political

    Legislative Life and the Meaning of Public Service

    by Grant Reeher ...
    In First Person Political, Grant Reeher combats the public's alienation from and distrust of politicians by putting a personal face on everyday political life. Through moving personal interviews, Reeher allows legislators to tell their own stories about how and why they came to politics, the experience of serving in their state legislature, their decisions to stay or leave, and the many trials ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Digital Labor

    The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Edited by Trebor Scholz ...
    Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and ... Read more

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  • Using Technology, Building Democracy

    Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship

    by Jessica Baldwin-Philippi ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    The days of "revolutionary" campaign strategies are gone. The extraordinary has become ordinary, and campaigns at all levels, from the federal to the municipal, have realized the necessity of incorporating digital media technologies into their communications strategies. Still, little is understood about how these practices have been taken up and routinized on a wide scale, or the ways in which the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Disobedience

    Concept and Practice

    Edited by Elena Loizidou ...
    Disobedience has been practiced and considered since time immemorial. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the concept and practice of disobedience through the prism of contemporary ideas and events. Past writings on disobedience represented it as a largely political practice that revealed the limits of government or law. It was not, for example, thought of as a subjective exigency and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD