Pluto Press New Books Catalogue January - June 2012

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Imagine if the Afghan war was over by Christmas...2001

The Afghan Solution The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan Lucy Morgan Edwards Published in time for the tenth anniversary of the Afghan war, this explosive book exposes how the West lost its chance to rout the Taliban and stabilise Afghanistan.

In late 2001, a group of Afghan tribal leaders met to plan how to topple the Taliban. Within weeks the plan was in tatters, thwarted by the West, and the group’s leader, Abdul Haq, assassinated by the Taliban. Lucy Morgan Edwards’s investigation into Haq’s tragic mission led her to Taliban ministers, warlords, spies and two American Republican brothers who financed Haq’s venture.

Based on the author’s own experience of the war in Afghanistan, this book reveals how a solution to the war was lost and why it matters today.

Lucy Morgan Edwards arrived in Afghanistan as an aid worker at the height of the Taliban regime. She was an election monitor at the 2002 emergency Loya Jirga (Grand Council) and then a freelance journalist, writing for the Economist and Daily Telegraph. From 2004 to 2005 she was Political Advisor to the EU Ambassador in Kabul. She is now based in Geneva.

October 2011 368pp 241mm x 159mm 16pp colour plates, 2 maps Hb 978-0-9568-4490-3 £20 Epub 978-0-9568-4491-0 £20 Kindle 978-0-9568-4493-4 £20

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Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 Syed Saleem Shahzad Pb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £17.99

Losing Control Global Security in the 21st Century Paul Rogers Pb 978-0-7453-2937-6 £18.99

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A well-argued and deftlywritten account of the opportunities not taken ... based on the author’s own deep knowledge.

Peter Bergen

CNN Security Analyst and author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda

A devastating indictment of the intelligence and strategic failures that have led us into the current tragedy in Afghanistan.

William Pfaff

This insightful volume draws on Afghan and foreign sources to tell the story of Abdul Haq’s tragic death and its applicability to the present and future.

Peter Tomsen

author of The Wars of Afghanistan and former US Ambassador to the Afghan resistance 1989-92

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New Series: Revolutionary Lives

Leila Khaled Icon of Palestinian Liberation Sarah Irving Series: Revolutionary Lives

May 2012 176pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-2951-2 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2952-9 £45 Epub 978-1-8496-4674-1 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4675-8 £12.99

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Sarah Irving provides a fine portrayal of a compelling and mysterious figure from a tumultuous period in Palestinian history, mixing biography and historical critique to deliver a valuable insight into Leila Khaled’s character as well as her extraordinary appeal as a revolutionary icon.

Nicholas Blincoe

Novelist and co-editor of Peace Under Fire: Israel/ Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement

Dubbed ‘the poster girl of Palestinian militancy’, Leila Khaled’s image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.

In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image.

Key moments of Khaled’s turbulent life are explored, including the dramatic events of the hijackings, her involvement in the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (a radical element within the PLO), her opposition to the Oslo peace process and her activism today.

Leila Khaled’s example gives unique insights into the Palestinian struggle through one remarkable life – from the tension between armed and political struggle, to the decline of the secular left and the rise of Hamas, and the role of women in a largely male movement.

Sarah Irving is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Electronic Intifada, Guardian Online and New Internationalist. She has held editorial roles at Red Pepper, Peace News and Ethical Consumer magazine. She is author of the Bradt Guide to Palestine (2011) and co-author (with Sharyn Lock) of Gaza: Beneath the Bombs (Pluto, 2010).

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My Life in the PLO The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle Shafiq Al-Hout, edited by Jean Said Makdisi and Martin Asser. Translated by Hader Al-Hout and Laila Othman Pb 978-0-7453-2883-6 £19.99

My Father Was a Freedom Fighter Gaza’s Untold Story Ramzy Baroud Pb 978-0-7453-2881-2 £13.99

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New Series: Revolutionary Lives

Gerrard Winstanley The Digger’s Life and Legacy John Gurney Series: Revolutionary Lives ‘The power of property was brought into creation by the sword’, so wrote Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) – Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bête noire of the landed aristocracy.

Despite being one of the great English radicals, Winstanley remains unmentioned in today’s lists of ‘great Britons’.

John Gurney reveals the hidden history of Winstanley and his movement. As part of the radical ferment which swept England at the time of the civil war, Winstanley led the Diggers in taking over land and running it as ‘a common treasury for all’ – provoking violent opposition from landowners. Gurney also guides us through Winstanley’s writings, which are among the most remarkable prose writings of his age.

Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger’s Life and Legacy is a must read for students of English history and all those seeking to re-claim the commons today.

John Gurney is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University and is author of Brave Community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution (2007).

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Human Rights and Social Movements Neil Stammers Pb 978-0-7453-2911-6 £19.99

May 2012 176pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3183-6 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3184-3 £45 Epub 978-1-8496-4677-2 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4678-9 £12.99

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Introduction by David Harvey Pb 978-0-7453-2846-1 £8.99

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Jean Paul Marat Tribune of the French Revolution Clifford D. Conner Series: Revolutionary Lives Jean-Paul Marat’s role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat’s contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have occurred.

Clifford D. Conner argues that what was unique about Marat - which set him apart from all other major figures of the Revolution, including Danton and Robespierre - was his total identification with the struggle of the propertyless classes for social equality.

This is an essential book for anyone interested in the history of the revolutionary period and the personalities that led it.

May 2012 176pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3193-5 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3194-2 £45 Epub 978-1-8496-4680-2 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4681-9 £12.99

Clifford D. Conner has written biographies of two eighteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, Colonel Despard (2000) and Arthur O’Connor (2009).

He is also the author of the acclaimed A People’s History of Science (2005).

He is on the editorial board of The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.

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A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings On the Sovereignty of Life As Surpassing the Rights of Man Raoul Vaneigem. Translated by Liz Heron Pb 978-0-7453-2021-2 £18.99

Marx’s ‘Eighteenth Brumaire’ (Post)Modern Interpretations Edited by Mark Cowling and James Martin Pb 978-0-7453-1830-1 £24.99

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Fascinating stories from the workers behind China’s phenomenal growth

The Accidental Capitalist A People’s Story of the New China Behzad Yaghmaian In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.

Through months of sustained interpersonal contact with migrant workers and factory owners, Behzad Yaghmaian paints a unique portrait of a country experiencing the turmoil of rapid development.

His close listening has produced an intimate look at the hopes, hardships, triumphs and tragedies of those behind the Chinese ‘economic dragon’.

The Accidental Capitalist reveals the human reality behind China’s rise to global-superpower status. Yaghmaian articulates the collective narrative of a people which will resonate with anyone living under capitalism and provide valuable material to students and scholars.

Behzad Yaghmaian is Professor of Political Economy at Ramapo

College, New Jersey. He has taught in the United States, Iran and Turkey.

He is author of Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West, and Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and Movements for Rights.

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China From the Inside Out Fitting the People’s Republic into the World Ronald C. Keith Pb 978-0-7453-2854-6 £15.99

China’s Global Strategy Towards a Multipolar World Jenny Clegg Pb 978-0-7453-2518-7 £19.99

March 2012 256pp 230mm x 150mm 20 photos, 3 maps Pb 978-0-7453-3230-7 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3231-4 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4653-6 £17.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4654-3 £17.99

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This remarkable book paints intimate portraits of some of the faceless millions of migrant workers who have made China’s economic miracle possible.

Yaghmaian takes readers beyond the statistics to show the revolutionary changes of the last generation.

Ivan Watson

CNN Foreign Correspondent

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Unskilled migrants have been central to China’s rapid industrialisation, but their life stories and voices have been missing from previous accounts of that process. Behzad Yaghmaian fills that gap. A fascinating, moving and highly readable book.

Jeff Crisp

UNHCR

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Chomsky on Western military intervention

A New Generation Draws the Line “Humanitarian” Intervention and the Standards of the West Noam Chomsky How do we understand the ethics of humanitarian intervention in today’s world? After Western intervention in Libya’s civil war this new edition of A New Generation Draws the Line provides timely answers.

In a new chapter on recent interventions Chomsky dissects the meaning of the ‘right to protect’ principle. Other chapters examine the West’s uses and abuses of ‘humanitarian intervention’ including detailed studies of East Timor and Kosovo.

The actions of Muammar Gaddafi and the trial of Serbian military commander Ratko Mladic have re-energised narratives about the role of the ‘civilised’ West. In this book, Chomsky deploys his forensic method - asking the difficult questions the West would prefer to avoid.

November 2011 184pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3234-5 £12.99

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Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.

Noam Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of America’s

foremost social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at M.I.T. He is the author of numerous books for Pluto Press, including Pirates and Emperors Old and New, Fateful Triangle, The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo and Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs.

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Power and Terror Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force Noam Chomsky Pb 978-0-7453-3137-9 £12.99

The New York Times

On the one hand we have the established media, the respectable community of foreign affairs analysts, the government - on the other, Noam Chomsky.

The Nation

For Chomsky, the ‘official doctrine’ ... of military intervention to safeguard human rights is as much a sham as the ‘New World Order’ trumpeted during the Gulf War. THE Guardian

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Rogue States The Rule of Force in World Affairs Noam Chomsky Pb 978-0-7453-1708-3 £14.99

Why Obama’s economy is stupid

Obama’s Economy Recovery for the Few Jack Rasmus Three years after his election, Barack Obama presides over a deep economic malaise. Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration has failed to deliver economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals which could realise these goals.

Whilst corporate profits are up, economic hardship is the bitter reality for millions of US citizens. Rasmus argues that the weakest economic recovery since 1947 is the direct result of the Obama administration’s failure to take decisive action. From Obama’s presidential election to the passage of his 2012 budget, this book explains how the US economy got where it is today and why the risk of a ‘double dip’ recession is rising.

In a crucial election year, Obama’s Economy will be vital reading for students of US politics and economics, and all those looking for a way out of the current crisis of capitalism.

Jack Rasmus is a Professor of Economics at St Marys College and Santa

Clara University, both in California. He is a freelance economics journalist and author of Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression (Pluto, 2010). He has been a business economist, market analyst and vice-president of the National Writers Union.

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Epic Recession Prelude to Global Depression Jack Rasmus Pb 978-0-7453-2998-7 £22.50

No Way to Run an Economy Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right Graham Turner Pb 978-0-7453-2976-5 £12.99

March 2012 176pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3218-5 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3219-2 £50 Epub 978-1-8496-4695-6 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4696-3 £14.99

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Everybody else talked of the Lehman crisis as a blip, but Rasmus got it right: his concept of ‘epic recession’ describes what happened, in America and in the Western world. In this trenchant critique of Obama’s stimulus measures, he asks searching questions about the scale of the actions taken and the suitablity of their design.

With orthodox economics coming under strain, Rasmus’ unorthodox economics is a refreshing counter-argument to the mainstream.

Paul Mason

BBC Newsnight Economics Editor and author of Meltdown

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The political life and musical heritage of a folk legend

Bert The Life and Times of A. L. Lloyd Dave Arthur. Foreword by Lord Justice Stephen Sedley Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more this is the story of A. L. (Bert) Lloyd’s extraordinary life.

A. L. Lloyd played a key part in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s, but that is only part of his story. Dave Arthur documents how Lloyd became a member of the Communist Party, forceful antifascist, trade unionist and an important part of left-wing culture from the early 1930s to his death in 1982. Following his return from Australia as a 21-year-old, self-educated agricultural labourer, he was at the heart of the most important left-wing movements and highly respected for his knowledge in various fields.

Dave Arthur recounts the life of a creative, passionate and lifeloving Marxist, and in so doing provides a social history of a turbulent twentieth century.

April 2012 352pp 230mm x 150mm 25 b & w photographs Hb 978-0-7453-3252-9 £24.99 Epub 978-1-8496-4671-0 £24.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4672-7 £24.99

Published in association with the EFDSS

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When everyone else was listening to Cream, I was listening to A. L. Lloyd.

Frank Zappa

Dave Arthur has gained a considerable reputation as a researcher,

collector, writer and broadcaster of English song, music and folklore. He edited English Dance and Song for twenty years, and in 2003 was awarded the EFDSS Gold Badge for services to folk music. His writing has appeared in The Times, the Independent, Melody Maker, Words International, the Folk Music Journal, English Dance and Song, the Stage, Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

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Class Act The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl Ben Harker Pb 978-0-7453-2165-3 £17.99

The Vinyl Ain’t Final Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture Edited by Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle Pb 978-0-7453-1940-7 £17.99

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Laurie Penny on protests, feminism and culture

Penny Red Notes from the New Age of Dissent Laurie Penny. Foreword by Warren Ellis In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.

Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny’s writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews and first-hand accounts of political direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges. An introduction and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues.

This book is essential for understanding what motivates the new generation of activists, writers and thinkers that bring creativity, energy and urgency to the fight against capitalism and exploitation.

Laurie Penny is a journalist, feminist, and political activist from

London. She is a regular writer for the New Statesman and the Guardian, and has also contributed to the Independent, Red Pepper and the Evening Standard. She is the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011). She has presented Channel 4’s Dispatches and been on the panel of the BBC’s Any Questions. Her blog, ‘Penny Red’, was shortlisted for the Orwell prize in 2010.

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The Assault on Universities A Manifesto for Resistance Edited by Michael Bailey and Des Freedman Pb 978-0-7453-3191-1 £14.99

The Will of the Many How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy Marianne Maeckelbergh Pb 978-0-7453-2925-3 £17.99

October 2011 224pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3208-6 £12.99 Epub 978-1-8496-4604-8 £10.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4605-5 £10.99

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Cuts, sexism and riots, Laurie Penny’s fresh and angry voice captures the moment and the important issues - highly recommended.

Polly Toynbee

Penny is re-inventing the language of dissent and causing apoplexy among the old men in cardigans who run the British blogosphere.

Paul Mason

economics editor of BBC’s Newsnight

In riots, kettles and occupations, and with visceral anger, big-eyed desperation and wicked humour, this is Laurie Penny at her very best.

Dan Hancox

author of Kettled Youth (2011)

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Exposes the discrimination of the Israeli government

Palestinians in Israel Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy Ben White. Foreword by Haneen Zoabi

December 2011 144pp 198mm x 129mm Photographs, maps, figures Pb 978-0-7453-3228-4 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3229-1 £50 Epub 978-1-8496-4626-0 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4627-7 £14.99

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This accessible and forthright book will help illuminate some of Israel’s darkest corners and secrets.

As this book shows, the treatment of the Palestinians in Israel is the ultimate proof that the Jewish State is anything but democratic.

Professor Ilan Pappe

University of Exeter and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and Out of the Frame

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Essential reading to understand why there can never be peace unless Palestinian citizens of Israel are granted full equality, something they are systematically denied

by Israel’s aggressive, and increasingly unrestrained Zionist ethnocracy.

Ali Abunimah

Co-founder of Electronic Intifada, author of One Country

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Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official ‘peace process’ and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.

What the Israeli right-wing calls ‘the demographic problem’ Ben White identifies as ‘the democratic problem’ which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing Palestinian population. White demonstrates how the consistent emphasis on privileging one ethno-religious group over another cannot be seen as compatible with democratic values and that, unless addressed, will undermine any attempts to find a lasting peace.

Individual case studies are used to complement this deeply informed study into the great, unspoken contradiction of Israeli democracy. It is a pioneering contribution which will spark debate amongst all those concerned with a resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/ Israel. He is the author of Israeli Apartheid (Pluto, 2009). His work has appeared in the Guardian online, the New Statesman, and Electronic Intifada.

He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the ‘war on terror’.

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Israeli Apartheid A Beginner’s Guide Ben White Pb 978-0-7453-2887-4 £9.99

Stolen Youth The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh and Adah Kay Pb 978-0-7453-2161-5 £16.99

The definitive introduction to the Middle East’s longest running conflict

The Palestine-Israel Conflict

Third Edition

A Basic Introduction Gregory Harms with Todd M. Ferry The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth, and now twenty-first, century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period.

The Palestine-Israel Conflict is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region, from Biblical times until today. Perfect for the general reader, as well as students, it offers a comprehensive yet lucid rendering of the conflict, setting it in its proper historical context.

Harms and Ferry show how today’s violence is very much a product of recent history, with its roots in the twentieth century.

This balanced account is now fully up to date, including the ongoing situation in Gaza, making it a valuable resource for anyone who wants a clear guide to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and its place in the history of Middle Eastern affairs.

Gregory Harms is an independent scholar based in Chicago. He is the author of Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East: US Foreign Policy, Israel and World History (Pluto, 2010).

Todd M. Ferry began his studies in archaeology and Near East history at Indiana University. He received his MA in Syro-Palestinian archaeology from the University of Chicago in 2001, and has worked as a supervisor at the sites of Ashkelon and Tel Beth Shemesh in Israel.

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The Politics of Change in Palestine State-Building and Non-Violent Resistance Michael Bröning Pb 978-0-7453-3093-8 £17.99

Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East US Foreign Policy, Israel and World History Gregory Harms Pb 978-0-7453-2709-9 £14.99

June 2012 216pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3213-0 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3216-1 £50 Epub 978-1-8496-4686-4 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4687-1 £14.99

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This superior and remarkably thorough, if brief, study of the Holy Land enigma is strongly recommended as an introduction.

Choice

An indispensable, basic introduction.

Gabriel Kolko

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto and author of The Age of War

A tour de force in the depth and breadth of its research and in its clarity.

John K. Cooley

Veteran foreign correspondent and author of Unholy Wars.

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New Series: New Politics, Progressive Policy

The Global Sex Trade Economics, Policy and the State Karie A. Gubbins Series: New Politics, Progressive Policy

April 2012 264pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3095-2 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3096-9 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4665-9 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4666-6 £18.99

Trafficking in women for commercial sex is the world’s fastest growing transnational criminal phenomenon. The Global Sex Trade looks at the reality behind this shocking fact, showing how this situation has come about and how it can be changed.

In a distinctive and original analysis Karie A. Gubbins shows the connections between the legalised sex industry and the illegal world of sex trafficking. The sex industry creates the demand and, increasingly, trafficking is a form of supply. The result is a mutually beneficial relationship between legal and illegal economies that has allowed the global sex trade to expand and move freely across borders in recent decades.

The Global Sex Trade illuminates the economic and political forces involved in women’s exploitation and outlines routes to sexual equality. It is a pioneering contribution which will spark debate amongst feminists and students in gender studies and sociology.

Karie A. Gubbins is an Adjunct Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at William Paterson University. She has written on feminism for Znet and is a former board member of the North Jersey Coalition Against Trafficking.

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On the Game Women and Sex Work Sophie Day Pb 978-0-7453-1758-8 £19.99

Traffick The Illicit Movement of People and Things Gargi Bhattacharyya Pb 978-0-7453-2047-2 £16.99

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New Series: New Politics, Progressive Policy

The Scramble for African Oil Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa’s Natural Resources Douglas A. Yates Series: New Politics, Progressive Policy Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent.

Douglas A. Yates shows how the ‘scramble’ by the great powers for African oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy. Yates documents how Africans have refused to remain passive in the face of such developments, forming movements to challenge this new attempt at domination.

This book is an urgent challenge to our understanding of Africa, raising questions about the consequences of our reliance on foreign resources. It will be vital reading for all those studying development and global political economy.

Douglas A. Yates is Professor of International Relations & Diplomacy at

the American Graduate School, International & Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris, and Anglo-American Law at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. His most recent book is The French Oil Industry and the Corps des Mines in Africa (2009).

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Oil Crusades America Through Arab Eyes Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum Pb 978-0-7453-2559-0 £17.99

Oil Wars Edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said Pb 978-0-7453-2478-4 £24.99

January 2012 256pp 215mm x 135mm 11 maps Pb 978-0-7453-3045-7 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3046-4 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4629-1 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4630-7 £19.99

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Essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the ‘resource curse’, the global exploitation of Africa’s resources and the troubled state of African politics.

Professor Michael Klare

Hampshire College, Massachusetts and author of Resource Wars

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Yates brilliantly scales the walls of the oil fortress in Africa and shines a light into the complex politics - local, national and global - of the oil and gas industry and offers some insight into possible routes out of the swamp of failed oildevelopment.

Professor Michael Watts

University of California, Berkeley

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Shows how the West makes peace impossible

The Economics of Killing How the West Fuels War and Poverty in the Developing World Vijay Mehta

February 2012 216pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3224-6 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3225-3 £50 Epub 978-1-8496-4647-5 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4648-2 £14.99

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We live in a rich world and yet increasingly people are getting caught in the poverty trap and facing real hardship and pain.

Vijay Mehta’s excellent book sets out the problems and solutions, and challenges us all to create the spiritual and political will to bring about change.

Vijay Mehta is an author and peace activist. He is Chair of Uniting for Peace and founding trustee of the Fortune Forum charity. His books include The Fortune Forum Code: For a Sustainable Future (2006), Arms No More (2005), and The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century (2005).

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From Pacification to Peacebuilding A Call to Global Transformation Diana Francis Pb 978-0-7453-3026-6 £17.99

Mairead Maguire

People Power

Irish peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity

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The Economics of Killing brilliantly links the deepening economic crisis facing the West with the dynamics of militarism that is wreaking havoc on the planet.

Everyone who cares about the future must read this groundbreaking book.

Richard Falk

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Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality. The Economics of Killing describes how the power of global elites, entrenched under globalisation, has created a deadly cycle of violence.

In this groundbreaking work, Vijay Mehta shows how attempts at peaceful national development are routinely blocked by Western powers. He locates the 2008 financial crisis in US attempts to block China’s model of development. He shows how Europe and the US conspire with regional dictators to prevent countries from developing advanced industries, and how this system has fed terrorism.

Mehta argues that a different world is possible, based on policies of disarmament, demilitarisation and sustainable development.

This original and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the consequences of endless war fuelled by the West.

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New ways to fight poverty

Eradicating Extreme Poverty Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights Edited by Xavier Godinot The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and ‘compassion fatigue’. Eradicating Extreme Poverty provides an urgently needed fresh approach which will re-energise action on this issue.

Rejecting traditional ‘top-down’ approaches, Xavier Godinot and his colleagues start from the experiences, capabilities and strategies of the poor themselves. They argue that the first step is a close connection with poor communities followed by a commitment to take action alongside them. Life-stories from Burkina Faso, France, Peru and the Philippines are used to show that the poor must be involved in their own liberation.

After decades of failed development policies, this book outlines a radical new approach which will enliven debate amongst policymakers, researchers, students and academics.

Xavier Godinot works at the headquarters of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, where he was director of its Research Institute for twelve years. He coordinates anti-poverty projects in Southern and Northen countries, with families living in rubbish dumps, under bridges and in slums. He has edited several books about poverty in the North and the South.

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Seasons of Hunger Fighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World’s Rural Poor Stephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan. Foreword by Robert Chambers Pb 978-0-7453-2826-3 £9.99

Poverty and Neoliberalism Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South Ray Bush Pb 978-0-7453-1960-5 £21.99

January 2012 272pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3197-3 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3198-0 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4632-1 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4633-8 £19.99

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This gem of a book gets under the skin of poverty. Above all it shows the human reality of poverty: the endless struggle for respect, and against indignity and stigma. Read it to learn what development should be about.

Duncan Green

head of research, Oxfam Great Britain

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This important publication argues convincingly that extreme poverty is a human rights crisis that demands urgent commitments from states to respect, protect and fulfil human rights for all.

Salil Shetty

Secretary General of Amnesty International

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Analysis that gets to the heart of the year’s key issues

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 Edited by Wendy Kristianasen Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals. Published monthly in French and English, it brings together a diverse range of high-calibre writers from across the world.

This book collects the paper’s highlights from the last year. The articles have been carefully selected and are arranged around the key themes in our changing world including US imperialism, the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Among the contributors are Slavoj Žižek, James K Galbraith and Philip S. Golub.

A perfect seasonal gift for anyone interested in global issues, The Best of Le Monde diplomatique goes beyond the news and illuminates the state of our planet.

Wendy Kristianasen is the editor of Le Monde diplomatique in English,

and a writer and journalist on the Middle East and wider Muslim world.

March 2012 256pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3187-4 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3188-1 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4650-5 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4651-2 £18.99

Power, Profit and Prestige A History of American Imperial Expansion

Philip S. Golub

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Le Monde diplomatique offers a cool, reasoned, different view of the world’s most pressing issues.

New York Review of Books

Le Monde diplomatique is more than ever indispensable to readers who want to know what governments and consensus media will not tell them.

Eric Hobsbawm

Le Monde diplomatique is a crusading voice in journalism with especially good foreign coverage.

William Dalrymple

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War and Empire The American Way of Life Paul L. Atwood Pb 978-0-7453-2764-8 £18.99

Why the US really attacked Iraq

Making the World Safe for Capitalism How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed Christopher Doran The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.

Christopher Doran provides a unique perspective, arguing that the drive to war came from the threat Iraq might pose to American economic hegemony if the UN sanctions regime was ended. Doran argues that this hegemony is rooted in third world debt and corporate market access. It was protection of these arrangements that motivated US action, not Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction or a simplistic desire to seize its oil.

This book will provide new insights on the war which still casts a shadow over global politics, and will have wide appeal to all those concerned about the Middle East, world peace and global development.

Christopher Doran is a long-time activist, teacher and writer. His

research focuses on the relationship between corporations and democracy, in particular the legal right of corporations to influence political decisionmaking.

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Erasing Iraq The Human Costs of Carnage Michael Otterman, Richard Hil and Paul Wilson.

Foreword by Dahr Jamail Pb 978-0-7453-2897-3 £14.99

Regime Unchanged Why the War on Iraq Changed Nothing Milan Rai Pb 978-0-7453-2199-8 £14.99

April 2012 216pp pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3222-2 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3223-9 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4668-0 £17.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4669-7 £17.99

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A significant contribution to the scholarly literatures on neoliberalism and the US intervention in lraq. Insightful and compelling.

David McNally

York University, author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

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A critique of American power in Iraq in the traditions of Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. Based on systematic research, it pulls no punches in revealing the abuses of corporate and state power. Doran’s powerful account shows how ‘militarised neoliberalism’ operates in the interests of giant corporations.

Professor Frank Stilwell

University of Sydney

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Pakistan versus the world

Pakistan The US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies Edited by Usama Butt and Julian Schofield The killing of Osama Bin Laden highlighted the tense relationship between the US and Pakistani governments. This book considers the evolving nature of this relationship and Pakistan’s place within the global order.

Whereas standard accounts focus on the US-Pakistan relationship in isolation, Pakistan: The US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies provides a broader geopolitical perspective. It analyses Pakistan’s relations with the US after a decade of the war on terror as well as Pakistan’s regional relations, which provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of Pakistan’s interests.

Contributions from experts in both Pakistan and the West mean that this book will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand this troubled nation.

February 2012 288pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3206-2 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3207-9 £70 Epub 978-1-8496-4644-4 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4645-1 £18.99

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This deeply-researched, well-thought out and comprehensive book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Pakistani policy and the vexed subject of US-Pakistani relations.

Usama Butt is a London-based academic specialising in Pakistan and Islamism. He is the co-editor of Pakistan’s Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation (2010).

Julian Schofield is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada. He has been a key advisor to the Canadian government and intelligence services on Pakistan. He is the author of Militarization and War (2007).

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The State of Islam Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan Saadia Toor Pb 978-0-7453-2990-1 £17.99

Professor Anatol Lieven

War Studies, King’s College London and author of Pakistan: A Hard Country

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Pakistan’s complex and increasingly stressful relationship with the US cannot be analysed in isolation from its other regional interests, including those relating to China and Iran, let alone India. This wide-ranging study by scholars from diverse backgrounds provides muchneeded analysis of this wider context.

Professor Paul Rogers

Peace Studies, Bradford University

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Military Inc. Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy Ayesha Siddiqa Pb 978-0-7453-2545-3 £21.99

Bolivia from below

Bolivia Refounding the Nation Kepa Artaraz The election of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS, movement towards socialism) to power in Bolivia in 2006 marked a historic break from centuries of foreign domination and indigenous marginalisation.

Evo Morales, leader of the MAS, became the first indigenous president of Bolivia.

Kepa Artaraz looks at the attempt to ‘refound the nation’ which the new government has made as its goal. He shows how the mix of Marxism, indigenous liberation politics, anti-imperialism and environmentalism has made Bolivia one of the most interesting and unique political experiments of Latin America’s ‘red decade’.

As the historic left-turn in Latin America reaches a crossroads, Bolivia: Refounding the Nation guides us through the politics and ideas which have animated this popular movement, drawing out important lessons for progressive politics everywhere.

Kepa Artaraz is a lecturer at the University of Brighton where he teaches global social policy and politics. He is the author of Cuba and Western Intellectuals since 1959 (2009).

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The Real Venezuela

April 2012 240pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3089-1 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3090-7 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4662-8 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4663-5 £18.99

Making Socialism in the 21st Century Iain Bruce Pb 978-0-7453-2736-5 £16.99

Democracy and Revolution

Latin America and Socialism Today D.L Raby Pb 978-0-7453-2435-7 £19.99

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Get Political

Writings in Exile Leon Trotsky, edited by Kunal Chattopadhyay and Paul Le Blanc Series: Get Political Leon Trotsky was a key political figure of the twentieth century – a leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, author of books on literature, history, morality and politics.

Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Exiled and isolated by Stalin, Trotsky used the only weapon he had left – words. In these writings he defends the 1917 revolution, warns prophetically of fascism and analyses anticolonial movements in the global south.

This collection gives a sense of the real Trotsky – passionate, humanist, Marxist. It will introduce the writings of one of history’s great revolutionaries to a new generation.

Leon Trotsky was one of the most prominent leaders of the Russian February 2012 224pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3148-5 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3144-7 £50 Epub 978-1-8496-4635-2 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4636-9 £14.99

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Leon Trotsky’s ideas inspired Minnesota teamsters and Bolivian miners, Filipino peasants from Mindanao and rebel students in the Latin Quarter, New York intellectuals and French Surrealist poets.

Thanks to the initiative of Kunal Chattopadhyay and Paul Le Blanc, some of the most important writings from this period are now available in one volume; considered with an open and critical mind, they will certainly provide precious tools for a Socialism of the 21st Century.

Michael Löwy

Revolution in 1917. He was one of the primary contenders for the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 after the death of Lenin. When Stalin took this post, Trotsky swiftly concluded that the Revolution had been undermined. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and subsequently went into exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated by Soviet agents in 1940.

Kunal Chattopadhyay is Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. He is the author of The Marxism of Leon Trotsky (2006).

Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience (2006), A Short History of the US Working Class (1999) and editor of Revolution, Democracy, Socialism: Selected Writings of VI Lenin (Pluto, 2008) and Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism (Pluto, 2010).

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Revolution, Democracy, Socialism Selected Writings V. I. Lenin, edited by Paul Le Blanc Pb 978-0-7453-2760-0 £14.99

100 Years of Permanent Revolution Results and Prospects Edited by Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice Pb 978-0-7453-2521-7 £19.99

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Get Political

Staying Power

Black Skin, White Masks

The History of Black People in Britain

Frantz Fanon. Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin Sardar

Peter Fryer. Introduction by Paul Gilroy

A devastating account of the feelings of inadequacy experienced by previously colonised people in a white world.

September 2010 648pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3072-3 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3073-0 £65

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Change the World Without Taking Power

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Introduction by David Harvey

The Meaning of Revolution Today

Beautiful edition of Marx and Engels’ classic manifesto, introduced by renowned social theorist David Harvey.

John Holloway September 2010 296pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-2918-5 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2919-2 £45

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Socialism or Barbarism

The Weight of Three Thousand Years

Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Paul Le Blanc and Helen C. Scott September 2010 320pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-2988-8 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2989-5 £40

New edition of John Holloway’s contemporary classic fusion of political philosophy and activism, including an extensive new preface by the author.

Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Selected Writings

The best introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought, including a number of writings never before anthologised.

The definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that spans the Roman conquest to the present day.

New introduction by Paul Gilroy.

Israel Shahak New edition of Shahak’s controversial critique of Israel.

September 2008 176pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-2840-9 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2841-6 £45

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Exposing a system where workers lose, even when they ‘win’

Struck Out Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done David Renton

March 2012 224pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3255-0 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3256-7 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4656-7 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4657-4 £19.99

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David Renton’s new book is very approachable and readable. It opens up employment law to students and employees alike.

Professor Linda Clarke

University of Westminster

Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation.

In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures a number of media myths about the Tribunals. Far from bringing flimsy cases, two-thirds of claimants succeed at the hearing. And rather than paying lotterysize jackpots, average awards are just a few thousand pounds – scant consolation for a loss of employment and often serious psychological suffering. The book includes a critique of the present government’s proposals to reform the Tribunal system.

Employment Tribunals are often seen by workers as the last line of defence against unfairness in the workplace. Struck Out shows why we can’t rely on the current system to deliver fairness and why big changes are needed.

David Renton is a barrister at Garden Court chambers in London and appears regularly for claimants at Employment Tribunals. Before being called to the Bar, Renton was a lecturer, senior researcher, and visiting professor in the UK and South Africa. He writes on employment law for the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and is the author of Fascism (Pluto, 1999).

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Ramparts of Resistance Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back Sheila Cohen Pb 978-0-7453-1529-4 £17.99

Employment Rights Richard W. Painter, Keith Puttick and Ann Holmes Pb 978-0-7453-2124-0 £35.00

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Is The Man at your meeting?

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark Corporate Spying on Activists Eveline Lubbers The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the ecoactivist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations.

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark documents how corporations are halting legitimate action and investigation by activists. Using exclusive access to previously confidential sources, Eveline Lubbers shows how companies such as Nestlé, Shell and McDonalds use covert methods to evade accountability. She argues that corporate intelligence gathering has shifted from being reactive to pro-active, with important implications for democracy itself.

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark will be vital reading for activists, investigative and citizen journalists, and all who care about freedom and democracy in the 21st century.

Eveline Lubbers is a Research Fellow at the University of Bath and Professor of Investigative Journalism at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She is a member of the editorial collective of the Spinwatch website and author of Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Front Groups and Other Forms of Corporate Bullying (2001).

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A Century of Spin How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power David Miller and William Dinan Pb 978-0-7453-2688-7 £16.99

Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by David Miller and William Dinan Pb 978-0-7453-2444-9 £17.99

February 2012 237pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3185-0 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3186-7 £70 Epub 978-1-8496-4641-3 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4642-0 £19.99

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In the recent frenzy over media phone hacking, the shadow warriors of corporate espionage have escaped scrutiny, until now.

Eveline Lubbers’ book shines a timely and sharp light on the dark arts of serving and retired cops, spooks and squaddies who are spying, bugging and lying for big business with impunity.

Michael Gillard

Journalist, The Sunday Times

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In this eye-opening volume Evelyn Lubbers opens up a new field of research. A must-read for anyone interested in grey policing, social movements, social reform and corporate intelligence behaviour.

Gary T. Marx

author of Undercover: Police Surveillance in America

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Beware the falling rate of profit

The Failure of Capitalist Production Underlying Causes of the Great Recession Andrew Kliman

November 2011 256pp 215mm x 135mm 59 graphs and 14 tables Pb 978-0-7453-3239-0 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3240-6 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4620-8 £17.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4619-2 £17.99

The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx’s crisis theory can explain these events.

Marx believed that the rate of profit has a tendency to fall, leading to economic crises and recessions. Many economists, Marxists among them, have dismissed this theory out of hand, but Andrew Kliman’s careful data analysis shows that the rate of profit did indeed decline after the post-World War II boom and that free-market policies failed to reverse the decline. The fall in profitability led to sluggish investment and economic growth, mounting debt problems, desperate attempts of governments to fight these problems by piling up even more debt – and ultimately to the Great Recession.

Kliman’s conclusion is simple but shocking: short of socialist transformation, the only way to escape the ‘new normal’ of a stagnant, crisis-prone economy is to restore profitability through full-scale destruction of existing wealth, something not seen since the Depression of the 1930s.

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One of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ...

The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear.

Highly recommended!

Professor Bertell Ollman

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Marx’s ‘Capital’ Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho

New York University, author of Dance of the Dialectic

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Economics Transformed

Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis.

Rick Kuhn

Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University

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Andrew Kliman is Professor of Economics at Pace University, New York.

He is the author of Reclaiming Marx’s ‘Capital’: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency and many writings on crisis theory, value theory and other topics.

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Discovering the Brilliance of Marx Robert Albritton Pb 978-0-7453-2657-3 £17.99

Is the US empire in decline?

The Fall of the US Empire Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay Whither the US empire? Despite Washington’s military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war – accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade – and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In this accessible, punchy text, Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay intervene in the debates that surround the US’s status as an Empire.

They survey the arguments amongst Marxist and critical scholars, from Immanuel Wallerstein and others who argue that the US is in decline, to those who maintain that it remains a robust superpower.

By explaining how America’s neo-imperial system of governance has been working since WWII, Fouskas and Gökay link the US’s domestic and foreign vulnerabilities.

The Fall of the US Empire argues that the time has come to understand the US empire not by its power but by its systemic vulnerabilities of financialisation, resource depletion and environmental degradation. Its informed and accessible style will have wide appeal to students looking for an introduction to these issues.

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond

University London and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of The New American Imperialism (with Bülent Gökay, 2005), The Politics of Conflict (editor, 2007, 2010) and Zones of Conflict (Pluto, 2003). He is an editor of globalfaultlines.com and a member of the editorial board of Debatte.

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations and Head of

the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of Eastern Europe Since 1970 (2005, 2006) and Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States (with Ben Fowkes, 2011).

He is the founder of globalfaultlines.com.

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The Crimes of Empire Rogue Superpower and World Domination

April 2012 176pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-2643-6 £16.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2644-3 £60 Epub 978-1-8496-4659-8 £16.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4660-4 £16.99

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A major addition to the literature on the decline of US hegemony.

Avoids cheap polemics and shows balanced, even prudent, judgement. In addition, it offers a sophisticated survey of grand theories of capitalism including those of Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, and Robert Brenner.

Professor Donald Sassoon

Comparative European History, Queen Mary University of London

Carl Boggs. Foreword by Peter McLaren Pb 978-0-7453-2945-1 £18.99

Zones of Conflict US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East Vassilis K. Fouskas Pb 978-0-7453-2029-8 £18.99

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When governments shoot to kill

State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern Ireland Maurice Punch

February 2012 216pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3147-8 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3143-0 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4638-3 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4639-0 £18.99

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State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles brings to bear a mature, discerning and knowledgeable mind on a vexed area and the results are disquieting, fascinating and provocative.

Paul Rock

Professor of Social Institutions, Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice, London School of Economics and Political Science

The period in Northern Ireland known as ‘the Troubles’ (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process.

But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that tensions from the past remain unresolved.

State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles reveals disturbing unanswered questions about the use of state violence during this period. Maurice Punch documents in chilling detail how the British government turned to desperate, illegal measures in a time of crisis, disregarding domestic and international law. He broadens out his analysis to consider other cases of state violence against ‘insurgent groups’ in Spain and South Africa.

This is the story of how the British state collaborated with violent groups and directly participated in illegal violence. It also raises urgent questions about why states around the world continue to deploy such violence rather than seeking durable political settlements.

Maurice Punch is Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, and Visiting Professor at the Law School, King’s College London. He is the author of Shoot to Kill: Exploring Police Use of Firearms (2010) and Police Corruption: Deviance, Accountability and Reform in Policing (2009).

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Belfast Segregation, Violence and the City Peter Shirlow and Brendan Murtagh Pb 978-0-7453-2480-7 £22.99

State Crime Governments, Violence and Corruption Penny Green and Tony Ward Pb 978-0-7453-1784-7 £23.99

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The Western legacy in Sierra Leone

When the State Fails Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.

The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of successful humanitarian intervention. The authors in this collection provide an informed analysis of the impact of the intervention on democracy, development and society in Sierra Leone. The authors take a particularly critical view of the imposition of neoliberalism after the conflict.

As NATO intervention in Libya shows the continued use of external force in internal conflicts, When the State Fails is a timely book for all students and scholars interested in Africa and the question of ‘humanitarian intervention’.

Tunde Zack-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire. He was President of the UK African Studies Association from 2006 to 2008. He is the author of Tributors, Supporters and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone (1995), The Quest for Sustainable Peace: The 2007 Sierra Leone Elections (2008), co-author of Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts (2000), co-editor of Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities (Pluto, 2002) and African Mosaic: Political, Social, Economic and Technological Development in the New Millenium (2009). He is a handling editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a member of the Africa Panel of the British Academy.

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Reclaiming the Nation The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America Edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros Pb 978-0-7453-3082-2 £24.99

Understanding the Somalia Conflagration Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding Afyare Abdi Elmi Pb 978-0-7453-2974-1 £17.99

December 2011 288pp 215mm x 135mm 6 figures, 1 map Pb 978-0-7453-3220-8 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3221-5 £65 Epub 978-1-8496-4621-5 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4622-2 £19.99

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This volume by Sierra Leonean academics offers wide-ranging insights on the causes and dynamics of the Sierra Leone conflict. It provides valuable information on security sector reform and the role of external actors in peace building.

Yusuf Bangura

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

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This work fills a very important niche in our perception of the era of the civil war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath. Policy makers, those interested in development studies and scholars in general should pay keen attention to it.

Magbaily Fyle

Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University

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Do we want a corporate-friendly UN?

Rethinking the UN Global Compact Edited by Catia Gregoratti and Bart Slob The UN Global Compact is the most renowned corporate social responsibility initiative in the world. Rethinking the UN Global Compact brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners who have theorised, studied and articulated critiques against the UN Global Compact’s soft approach to corporate regulation.

The contributors critically interrogate facets of the UN Global Compact’s history, politics and practices within and beyond the United Nations.

This edited book provides theoretically informed and empirically rich perspectives on the UN Global Compact politics and contemporary debates on corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability Catia Gregoratti is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department June 2012 298pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3157-7 £24.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3158-4 £75 Epub 978-1-8496-4683-3 £24.99 Kindle 978-1-8496-4684-0 £24.99

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I welcome this important book. The UN’s troubling marriage with multinational companies needs to be better known. Here, at last, is the information and analysis we need.

James Paul

Executive Director, Global Policy Forum

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The Global Compact is one of the many ways the transnational corporations try to show a smiley face to the world. An irresponsible UN helps them get away with it, and the good showcase project here or there doesn’t change that reality. The scholars in this book explain as nowhere else why the Global Compact should be abolished forthwith.

Susan George

Board President, The Transnational Institute

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of Political Science, Lund University. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on the UN Global Compact and public-private partnerships in the developing world, and the wider discourse of corporate social responsibility for development and poverty reduction.

Bart Slob is a Senior Researcher at the Dutch NGO SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations) where he coordinates research activities and gives advice to governments and civil society organisations about responsible business practices in various industrial sectors. He has also been involved in setting up and coordinating several civil society networks, such as Red Puentes, OECD Watch and Global Compact Critics.

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The Political Economy of Development The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research Edited by Kate Bayliss, Ben Fine and Elisa Van Waeyenberge Pb 978-0-7453-3103-4 £24.99

Neoliberalism A Critical Reader Edited by Alfredo Saad-Filho and Deborah Johnston Pb 978-0-7453-2298-8 £22.99

An essential annual of Palestinian analysis

The Palestinian Strategic Report 2010/11 Edited by Mohsen Saleh The Palestinian Strategic Report 2010/11 is the sixth in a series of comprehensive annual studies of the Palestinian issue published by the Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations in Beirut and distributed by Pluto Press.

The book covers the internal politics of Palestine, Israeli politics and policy, and Israeli–Palestinian relations. Also covered are the Arab, Muslim and international stances toward the Palestinian issue.

Along with economic and demographic indicators, the report has a special focus on Jerusalem and the holy sites. The 14 distinguished contributors not only survey the situation but also analyse events in the region, identifying trends and predicting likely future developments.

The Palestinian Strategic Report is an essential reference book for scholars, university libraries, Middle East studies centres, NGOs and activists working on or in the Middle East.

Mohsen Saleh is an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Arab History, the general manager of al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations since 2004, former head of Department of History and Civilization at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and former executive manager of Middle East Studies Centre in Amman. He was granted the Bait al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) award for Young Muslims Scholars in 1997 and the Excellent Teaching Award (College level), given by IIUM in 2002. He has edited or co-edited more than 30 books.

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The Palestinian Strategic Report 2009/2010

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The New Arab Revolutions That Shook the World Farhad Khosrokhavar From Libya in the east to the Gulf peninsula in the west, the ‘Arab Spring’ has shaken entrenched regimes. Decades-old dictatorships have fallen after mass protests. Whilst the final outcome is unclear, the historical importance of these events is beyond doubt.

Farhad Khosrokavar contextualizes the demands of the protesters.

He looks beyond the Arab world to show how the movements are leaving a deep imprint on countries like Iran and how a new conception of democracy is emerging in the region, challenging traditional ideas.

Looking to the future, Khosrokavar discusses how the new movements may change the world.

Farhad Khosrokhavar is Professor at the École des Hautes Études May 2012 256pp 216mm x 140mm Hb 978-1-6120-5083-6 £18.99

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en Sciences Sociales in Paris and author of 14 books translated in 10 languages. Khosrokhavar continues his travels and work on Islam, Muslim radicalisation, and postrevolutionary Iranian society. His most recent books in English include Suicide Bombers: Allah’s New Martyrs (Pluto 2005).

Party On! Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Today’s Networked Age John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel From Democrats to Republicans, from the Green Party to the Tea Party, American parties and their politics are continuously adapting, renewing, and evolving to meet the challenges of the times.

Party On! captures these nuances with a cohesive theme, hard data, and a spotlight on new media and the netroots. John White and Matt Kerbel guide readers on a journey from the origins of American political parties through a multitude of reorganisations, technological developments, and financial woes.

With finesse and insight, the book brings a sweeping view of political parties up to the eve of the 2012 elections.

John Kenneth White is Professor of Political Science at the Catholic

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University of America and the author of The New Century: Social Change and Political Response.

Matthew R. Kerbel is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University and author or editor of six books on politics, the mass media, and the presidency, including If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News and Get This Party Started: How Progressives Can Fight Back and Win.

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The Gatekeeper 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson The New York Times is possibly the most influential newspaper in the world. Because of this, it has become the topic of much debate about media bias, with some claiming that it is liberal and others that it is conservative.

The Gatekeeper argues that this debate is misleading and that the paper can more accurately be characterised as supporting the interests of US corporations, which involves both liberal and conservative positions. Through examining the paper’s coverage of key issues, including the 2008-2009 economic crisis, The Gatekeeper reframes the debate about the most venerable institution in US journalism.

Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of

Manitoba. He is internationally renowned for his research in the area of health economics. He is currently a Board member of the Council of Canadians and is on the Board of International Journal of Health Services.

Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba. He is a research associate for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and is on the steering committees of Fair Trade Manitoba and the Progressive Economics Forum.

Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns

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Matthew J. Burbank, Ronald J. Hrebenar and Robert C. Benedict Just in time for the 2012 US Presidential elections, this book shows how political parties and interest groups have become highly interdependent in the era of candidate-centred elections and mediadriven campaigns.

With up-to-date data including 2008 and 2010 mid-term results, this book looks ahead to 2012 illustrating important developments such as the Tea Party movement, social media, controversies over healthcare and financial sector reform and the impact of the Supreme Court decision on campaign finance reform.

Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns is the essential guide for understanding the new style of American politics.

Matthew J. Burbank is Associate Professor in Political Science at the

University of Utah.

Ronald J. Hrebenar is Professor of Political Science at the University

of Utah.

Robert C. Benedict is Associate Professor in Political Science at the

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Theory from the South Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff Series: The Radical Imagination

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As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be ‘evolving’ into the kind of societies normally associated with the ‘Global South’.

Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes – democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism.

They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South.

Challenging our ideas about ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Jean Comaroff is Professor of Anthropology at the University of

Chicago. She is co-editor of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006).

John L. Comaroff is Professor of Anthropology at the University of

Chicago. He is co-editor of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006).

As I Run Toward Africa A Memoir Molefi Kete Asante As I Run Toward Africa is Molefi Kete Asante’s memoir of his extraordinary life.

He takes the reader on a journey from the American South to the homes of kings in Africa. Born into a family of 16 children living in a two bedroom shack, Asante rose to become director of UCLA’s Centre for Afro American Studies, editor of the Journal of Black Studies and university professor by the age of 30. The government of Ghana designated Asante as a traditional king in 1996.

Asante recounts his meetings with personalities such as Wole Soyinka, Cornel West and others. This is an uplifting real-life story about hope and empowerment.

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor at the Department of African

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American Studies at Temple University. He is a distinguished author of 70 previous books, among the most recent are Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait (2009), Afrocentric Manifesto (2008), and The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony (2007).

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Speaking Up for Animals An Anthology of Women’s Voices Edited by Lisa Kemmerer. Foreword by Carol J. Adams Speaking Up for Animals highlights eighteen courageous members of a growing international animal advocacy movement that is overwhelmingly powered by women.

These remarkable activists take us with them as they lift factory farmed chickens and cows from quagmires of filth, free gigantic sea lions caught in fishing gear and secure undercover footage of dogs crying for mercy on stainless steel vivisection tables.

In the process, these dedicated women expose the many ways that most of us are complicit in the suffering and exploitation of animals, and creatively suggest a variety of ways in which we might help bring change.

Lisa Kemmerer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religions at Montana State University Billings. She is the author of In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals (2006) and Religion and Animals: Rightful Relations (2011).

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Common Preservation in Action Jeremy Brecher Save the Humans? argues that individual self-interest depends on common preservation – cooperation to provide for mutual well-being.

As world leaders fail to cooperate to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown and other threats to our survival, increasing numbers of people experience a pervasive sense of denial and despair.

But Jeremy Brecher has seen common preservation in action, and in Save the Humans? he shows how it works. From Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaigns in India, to the 2011 uprisings throughout the Middle East, Brecher shows what we can learn from past social movements to help us confront today’s global threats.

Jeremy Brecher is the author of 10 books on labour and social movements, including Global Visions and Global Village or Global Pillage.

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Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights Edited by Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik

March 2012 304pp 229mm x 152mm Pb 978-1-5945-1989-5 £19.99 Hb 978-1-5945-1988-8 £70

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Since the 2005 publication of the highly acclaimed first edition of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, human trafficking has become virtually a household phrase. This new edition adds vitally important updates related to recent developments.

A new introduction considers the term ‘sex trafficking’ and its growing use amongst feminist researchers. In a new chapter Ratna Kapur looks at changes in anti-trafficking legislation especially under the Obama administration. Jyoti Sanghera reports from her experience as a UN Human Rights commissioner and Bandana Pattanaik examines feminist participatory research on ‘trafficking’.

Kamala Kempadoo is Associate Professor in Social Science at York

University, Canada. She is the author of Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor (2004) and Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition (1998).

Saving Society Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life Bernard Phillips and David Christner Series: The Sociological Imagination Why do many problems throughout the world seem to be getting worse? Saving Society argues that a dramatic change in our mode of thinking is required.

The authors show how many of our fundamental assumptions lead to an overly bureaucratic approach, blocking solutions to many of our problems. They contrast our present emotional repression and conforming behaviour with a more liberated form of perception, thought and emotional expression, which could allow us to break out of these bureaucratic routines.

Saving Society shows how this alternative approach might lay the basis for more effective and democratic institutions.

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Bernard Phillips was a student of C. Wright Mills. He taught at the Universities of North Carolina, Illinois and Boston.

David Christner has worked closely with Bernard Phillips for a decade in an effort to help fulfill the aims of the Sociological Imagination Group.

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Creative Participation Responsibility-Taking in the Political World Edited by Michele Micheletti and Andrew S. McFarland Creative Participation presents the theory and practice of new innovative forms of political participation.

Examples covered in the book include consumers engaging in political shopping, capitalists building green developments, UK Muslim youth campaigning on the internet, Sicilian housewives taking on the Mafia, young evangelical ministers becoming concerned with social change and vegetarians making political statements.

The authors show how in these new campaigns individuals swarm like honeybees around particular issues, causing those in power to sit up and take notice. This is the essential guide to the new politics of participation.

Michele Micheletti is the Lars Hierta Professor of Political Science at

Stockholm University in Sweden. She is the author of Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action (2003).

Andrew S. McFarland is Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He is the author of Common Cause: Lobbying in the Public Interest (1984), Neopluralism: The Evolution of Political Process Theory (2004), and co-editor of Social Movements and American Political Institutions (1998).

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The Structural Lie Small Clues to Global Things Charles Lemert Series: Great Barrington Books The Structural Lie tackles one of social science’s most mysterious problems. How is it possible to derive statements about the grand structures of social life from their effects in the small movements of everyday life?

Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert shows how Marx and Freud provide some answers to this question. Marx derived from the commodity his picture of the capitalist system, Freud diagnosed the character of psyches from the details of dreams, slips and jokes.

This wonderfully readable and engaging book lays the foundation for a new social science in an age where a microchip can convey a world of information.

Charles Lemert is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan

University, Connecticut. He is the author of Durkeim’s Ghosts (2006).

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Veterans’ Journeys Home Life After Afghanistan and Iraq Lori Holyfield Veterans’ Journeys Home is a vivid portrayal of military life and its aftermath for US troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Highlighting the challenges US veterans face in today’s changing military culture, the book depicts the haunting and visceral memories of returning soldiers, conversations with mental health providers, and offers an alternative approach to healing the emotional wounds of war.

For anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human costs of recent wars this book is invaluable. It combines a moving narrative with a penetrating analysis of the welfare and post-conflict treatment of veterans.

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Lori Holyfield is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education and the Single Parent Family.

Why Men Rebel Fortieth Anniversary Edition Ted Robert Gurr Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today’s violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion.

With its close eye on the politics of group identity, this book provides new insight into contemporary security challenges.

Ted Robert Gurr is former Director of the Minorities at Risk Project

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and Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Government & Politics at the University of Maryland. He is author of numerous books and articles including Peoples vs. States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century (2000).

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Paulo Freire in the 21st Century Education, Dialogue, and Transformation Peter Roberts Series: Interventions: Education, Philosophy, and Culture This book explores the implications of world renowned educationalist Paulo Freire’s theories for educational practice and how his ideas can help in bridging different genres and traditions.

It addresses themes, questions and issues that have received little attention to date, including Freire’s conception of the critical intellectual, the problem of defining literacy, and the possibility of a Freirean response to debates over political correctness. Roberts also relates Freire’s ideas to those of other writers: Israel Scheffler, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse, among others.

Paulo Freire in the 21st Century makes a distinctive contribution to the international literature on Freire’s work.

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury

in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Marx’s Ghost Midnight Conversations on Changing the World Charles Derber Renowned American sociologist Charles Derber imagines a surprise encounter with Karl Marx’s ghost in London’s Highgate cemetery, leading to a night-long conversation about the problems plaguing the world. The economic crisis, climate change, war, the future of capitalism and the ‘Arab Spring’ are all discussed.

The ghost reconsiders his theories as he speaks eloquently about American labour, environmental, gender and anti-racist struggles.

The engrossing, funny and provocative conversation, with appearances from other ghosts such as John Maynard Keynes, offers new insights into the relevance and flaws of Marx’s thought, indicating how we can get to a better world.

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He is the

author of Corporation Nation, Hidden Power and Greed to Green. He has written for the Boston Globe, Newsday, and appears frequently on television and radio talk shows.

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Good Education in an Age of Measurement

Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Ethics, Politics, Democracy

Edited by Arif Dirlik and Alexander Woodside

Gert J.J. Biesta January 2011 160pp 216mm x 140mm Pb 978-1-5945-1791-4 £17.99 Hb 978-1-5945-1790-7 £65

Argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has displaced questions about educational purpose.

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Virtual Epidemics

Whither the Child?

March 2012 256pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5093-5 £65

Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility

Emerging Diseases and the Politics of Global Health

Edited by Eric P. Kaufmann and W. Bradford Wilcox

Monica Achitoff-Gray

Two high-profile authors investigate the political, economic and cultural causes and consequences of falling birth and fertility rates in the West.

March 2012 176pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-5945-1953-6 £60

Resurgent Politics in an Age of Disposability?

Contemporary Dialogues

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Henry A. Giroux, Sophia McClennen and Kenneth J. Saltman

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Compelling account of the decline of ‘the social’ and rise of atomisation under neo-liberalism, and how we can recreate a vibrant public realm.

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The past, present and possible future of epidemic disease. Considers the impact of predictive mapping and new surveillance technologies.

Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism

The Twilight of the Social

February 2012 128pp 216mm x 140mm Hb 978-1-6120-5055-3 £60

Historical and comparative analysis of how globalisation has affected agrarian societies. Includes contributors from the UN, China and India.

March 2012 144pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5039-3 £60

Four leading US public intellectuals come together to analyse education and society under the twin shadows of neoliberalism and terrorism.

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Mythologizing Black Women

Jihadist Ideology An Introduction

Unveiling White Men’s Racist and Sexist Deep Frame

Farhad Khosrokhavar Distinctive analysis of contemporary radical Islam – arguing that ideology, rather than socio-economic factors, is key to motivating groups.

Brittany C. Slatton

March 2012 176pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5049-2 £60

March 2012 288pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5061-4 £65

“New Jews”

American Indians and the American Imaginary

Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-Century Film

David L. Reznik

Pauline Turner Strong

Comprehensive study of the portrayal of American Jews in films over the last decade, from Hollywood blockbusters to indie favourites.

March 2012 208pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5071-3 £60

Using first-hand research, a shocking account revealing widespread racist and sexist attitudes amongst white men towards black women in the US.

February 2012 272pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5047-8 £65

American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond

Shows how Native Americans have been represented in American public culture - from the colonial era to modern films, sports arenas and museums.

Diverse Administrators in Peril The New Indentured Class in Higher Education

The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective

Edna Chun and Alvin Evans March 2012 256pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-5945-1584-2 £65

Enrico Dal Lago A new international perspective on American slavery, placing it as part of a wider Atlantic and Euro-American world.

January 2012 192pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-5945-1964-2 £65

Examination of the experiences of minority, female, and LGBT workers in higher education. Written by award-winning practitioners in higher education.

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Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution

Global Health in the 21st Century The Globalization of Disease and Wellness

Culture, Identity, Power, and Practice

Debra L. DeLaet and David E. DeLaet March 2012 352pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-5945-1732-7 £70

Essential guide to global health issues in the 21st century, with contributions from respected scholars and front-line practitioners.

Kevin Avruch March 2012 256pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5059-1 £65

Studies in Ethnomethodology

Selves, Societies, and Emotions

Harold Garfinkel and Anne Rawls

Understanding the Pathways of Experience

Expanded and updated edition of Harold Garfinkel’s seminal text on ethnomethodology. Includes additional papers that laid the basis for the book.

May 2012 368pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-5945-1392-3 £70

Thomas S. Henricks

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In and Out of Each Others’ Bodies

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Explaining Explanation Fully updated and expanded edition of the influential book on the philosophy of explanation, including ideas from Plato, Aristotle and JS Mill.

Maurice Bloch Fascinating and deep exploration into the nature of the social. How humans relate to each other psychologically, symbolically and culturally.

Thought-provoking meditation on how people discover and reproduce the ‘meaning’ of their social life - includes the impact of electronic media.

David-Hillel Ruben

Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social

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Practical guide to conflict resolution and peace-building from a distinguished scholar in the field. Explores the vital prerequisites for peace.

March 2012 240pp 216mm x 140mm Hb 978-1-6120-5067-6 £65

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Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

May 2011 280pp 215mm x 135mm 7 maps Pb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3102-7 £60

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Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11

Changing War and Global Politics

Syed Saleem Shahzad

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

A unique insight into the post-Osama bin Laden generation of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders from a journalist who interviewed many of them.

June 2011 192pp 215mm x 135mm 2 figures Pb 978-0-7453-3167-6 £16.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3168-3 £55

A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950

Evidence from the London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine

Ariella Azoulay. Translated by Charles S Kamen Beautifully presented photobook, featuring 200 rarely seen photographs from the Palestinian Nakba (1947-50).

Includes original text from the author.

October 2011 232pp 215mm x 135mm 6 photos Pb 978-0-7453-3159-1 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3160-7 £65

The Assault on Universities

Damning exposé of corporate complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. A vital legal resource on this pressing issue.

Building Fair and Sustainable Economies

Edited by Michael Bailey and Des Freedman

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Edited by Asa Winstanley and Frank Barat. Foreword by Alice Walker

Life Without Money

A Manifesto for Resistance

Sharp essays take on the government’s agenda of university cuts and fee increases, and outline an alternative manifesto for higher education.

Updated edition of the controversial book which argues that the only way to defeat Al Qaeda it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.

Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation

From Palestine to Israel

October 2011 256pp 205mm x 150mm 214 black and white photos Pb 978-0-7453-3169-0 £17.99

Understanding Al Qaeda

Edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman November 2011 256pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3165-2 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3316-8 £60

Examines the failure of the money-based global economy and how we might live in more sustainable, equitable ways. A textbook and manifesto for change.

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Hope Amidst Despair

The Lure of the City

September 2011 224pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3177-5 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3178-2 £60

From Slums to Suburbs

HIV/AIDS-Affected Children in SubSaharan Africa

Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald

Susanna W. Grannis

Short, accessibly written essays make the case for cities, arguing that the metropolitan mindset is essential to the struggle for human liberation.

Gives voice to HIV/AIDS orphans in subSaharan African, allowing them to tell their own stories. Moving insights from the heart of the global south.

October 2011 200pp 215mm x 135mm 3 figures, 1 photograph Pb 978-0-7453-3153-9 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3154-6 £45

Kings to Comrades

Crisis in Korea America, China and the Risk of War

Nepal’s Maoist Movement and the Democratic Transition

Tim Beal Balanced and deeply informed study of the increasingly volatile relations between North and South Korea and US concern about the rise of China.

Nishchal Basnyat

November 2011 360pp 215mm x 135mm 10 figures, 4 maps Pb 978-0-7453-3097-6 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3098-3 £60

August 2011 288pp 215mm x 135mm 13 figures, 6 photographs Pb 978-0-7453-3162-1 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3161-4 £60

How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

A ‘Toxic Genre’ The Iraq War Films

Martin Barker Analyses the production and reception of recent Iraq war films, asking why they have become known as a ‘Toxic Genre’.

Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro July 2011 192pp 177mm x 125mm Pb 978-0-7453-2980-2 £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2981-9 £45

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An accessible, step-by-step guide to reading Foucault’s hugely influential text.

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Unique insight into the recent Nepalese Maoist revolution. Includes rare interviews with its leaders and newly discovered documentary evidence.

June 2011 216pp 215mm x 135mm 16 photographs Pb 978-0-7453-3129-4 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3130-0 £60

Recent Highlights

Towards a Second Republic

Ireland’s Economic History

Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger

Crisis and Development in the North and South

September 2011 256pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3030-3 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3031-0 £60

Gerard McCann

Peadar Kirby and Mary P. Murphy

History of the Irish economy from the famine to the neo-liberal ‘celtic tiger’ model. Concludes with proposals to end Ireland’s current economic woes.

Analyses Ireland’s economics, politics and society, drawing lessons from its cycles of boom and bust. Proposes new institutions for a fairer Ireland.

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Remaking Scarcity

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Index

Accidental Capitalist, The

5

Achitoff-Gray, Monica

38

Adams, Carol J.

33

39

Artaraz, Kepa

19

Arthur, Dave

39 8

As I Run Toward Africa

32

Asante, Molefi Kete

32

Avruch, Kevin

40

Benedict, Robert C.

31

Bert

8

Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012, The

16

Biesta, Gert J.J.

38

Bloch, Maurice

40

Bolivia

19

Brecher, Jeremy

33

Bricmont, Jean

6

Burbank, Matthew J.

31

Butt, Usama

18

Chattopadhyay, Kunal

20

Chernomas, Robert

31

Chomsky, Noam

6

Christner, David

34

Chun, Edna

39

Comaroff, Jean

32

Comaroff, John L.

32

Conner, Clifford D.

4

Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution

40

Creative Participation

35

Dal Lago, Enrico

39

DeLaet, David E.

40

DeLaet, Debra L.

40

Derber, Charles

37

Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

38

Dirlik, Arif

38

Diverse Administrators in Peril

39

Doran, Christopher

17

Economics of Killing, The

14

Ellis, Warren

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1

Afghan Solution, The American Indians and the American Imaginary American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond

9

Global Sex Trade, The

12

Rawls, Anne

40

Godinot, Xavier Gökay, Bülent

15 25

Renton, David

22

Rethinking the UN Global Compact

28

Good Education in an Age of Measurement

38

Reznik, David L.

39

Gregoratti, Catia

28

Roberts, Peter

37

Gubbins, Karie A.

12

Ruben, David-Hillel

40

Saleh, Mohsen

29

Gurney, John

3

Gurr, Ted Robert

36

Saltman, Kenneth J.

38

Harms, Gregory

11

Sanghera, Jyoti

34

Henricks, Thomas S.

40

Save the Humans?

33

Holyfield, Lori

36

Saving Society

34

Hrebenar, Ronald J.

31

Schofield, Julian

18

Hudson, Ian

31

Scramble for African Oil, The

13

In and Out of Each Others’ Bodies

40

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark

23

Irving, Sarah

2

Sedley, Lord Justice Stephen

8

Jean Paul Marat

4

Selves, Societies, and Emotions

40

Jihadist Ideology

39

Slatton, Brittany C.

39

Kaufmann, Eric P.

38

Slob, Bart

28

Kemmerer, Lisa

33

Speaking Up for Animals

33

Kempadoo, Kamala

34

State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles

26

Kerbel, Matthew R.

30

Strong, Pauline Turner

39

Khosrokhavar, Farhad

30

Struck Out

22

Khosrokhavar, Farhad

39

Structural Lie, The

35

Kliman, Andrew

24

Studies in Ethnomethodology

40

Kristianasen, Wendy

16

Theory from the South

32

Le Blanc, Paul

20

Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered

34

Trotsky, Leon

20

Leila Khaled

2

Lemert, Charles

35

Twilight of the Social, The

38

Leon Trotsky

20

Veterans’ Journeys Home

36

Lubbers, Eveline

23

Virtual Epidemics

38

Making the World Safe for Capitalism

17

When the State Fails

27

Marx’s Ghost

37

White, Ben

10

McClennen, Sophia

38

White, John Kenneth

30

McFarland, Andrew S.

35

Whither the Child?

38

Mehta, Vijay

14

Why Men Rebel

36

Micheletti, Michele

35

Wilcox, W. Bradford

38

1

Woodside, Alexander

38

Morgan Edwards, Lucy Mythologizing Black Women

39

Yaghmaian, Behzad

Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism New Arab Revolutions That Shook the World, The

38

Yates, Douglas A.

13

Zack-Williams, Tunde

27

Zoabi, Haneen

10

New Generation Draws the Line, A “New Jews”

30 6 39

Eradicating Extreme Poverty

15

Obama’s Economy

Evans, Alvin

39

Pakistan

18

Explaining Explanation

40

Palestine-Israel Conflict, The

11

Failure of Capitalist Production, The

24

Palestinian Strategic Report 2010/11, The

29

Fall of the US Empire, The

25

10

Ferry, Todd M.

11

Palestinians in Israel Parties, Interest Groups, and

Fouskas, Vassilis K.

25

Political Campaigns

31

Garfinkel, Harold

40

Party On!

30

Gatekeeper, The

31

Pattanaik, Bandana

34

Paulo Freire in the 21st Century

37

Gerrard Winstanley

3

Giroux, Henry A.

38

Penny Red

Giroux, Henry A. Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

38

Penny, Laurie

Global Health in the 21st Century

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Rasmus, Jack

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