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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “howard brick”
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  • Radicals in America

    by Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Transcending Capitalism

    Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought

    by Howard Brick ...
    In Transcending Capitalism**, Howard Brick explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological."** Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • At the Center

    American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

    by Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, Howard Brick ...
    Series series American Thought and Culture
    At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Half the Sky

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    A New York Times BestsellerThe world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting ... Read more

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  • Don't Panic

    ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leviathan

    by Thomas Hobbes ...
    Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • In the Days of the Comet

    A Comet's Fire Reshapes Humanity Overnight

    by H. G. Wells ...
    One night changes everything — and humanity wakes up transformed.William Leadford is a bitter, jealous young man, consumed by class resentment and a doomed love affair, hurtling toward a violent act of revenge — when a vast green comet grazes the Earth's atmosphere. In an instant, its strange gas sweeps away the fog, hatred, and squalor clouding human minds, and the world awakens into startling ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Directorate S

    The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Steve Coll ...
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11**Prior to 9/11, the United States had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Global Discontents

    Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    In this compelling set of interviews, the intellectual discusses contemporary threats to democracy, from economic inequality to the Trump presidency.In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • UKIP

    Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics

    by Matthew Goodwin, Caitlin Milazzo ...
    The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two parliamentary by-elections, and attracting mainstream defectors to achieve major party status. By the time of the 2015 general election, Farage and Ukip ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Men Like Gods

    by H. G. Wells ...
    "Men like Gods" is a work that can be defined as science fiction. The book was written and published in 1923. The whole story has as its background the relationship between our universe, our world and other possible universes and worlds. The main protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple, a London journalist, very little satisfied with both his work and his relationship with his wife and family in general ... Read more

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