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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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The Ordeal of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. ...
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Latin America's experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement,...
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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China tod...
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Days and Nights of Love and War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and ten...
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The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99Original price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake,' and its reverberations are sti...
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The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel--and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it...
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /WINNER OF: Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson P...
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The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In The Arab Awakening, George Antonius details the story of the Arab movement: its origins, development, and obstacles. Initially published on th...
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China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century What must China do to become truly democratic and equitabl...
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Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a ...
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A History of Modern Lebanon / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating...
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Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt
PaperbackOriginal price $51.95 - Original price $51.95Original price $51.95$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /This book explores a little-noticed tradition in the history of European political thought. From Plato to Aristotle to Tacitus and Machiavelli, a...
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight Of Three Thousand Years
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish O...
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The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet,...
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Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean
HardcoverOriginal price $169.99 - Original price $169.99Original price $169.99$185.99$185.99 - $185.99Current price $185.99| /This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historic...
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Strangers to Ourselves
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger—the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own—as well as the no...
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Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era. The arti...
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Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by a new pandem...
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A Queer Theory of the State
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer T...
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The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land--A True Detective Story
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notoriou...
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Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics: Governmentality, Gender and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Latif Tas investigates the triangular relationship between nationalism, justice and gender politics to explore how influencing this dynamic allows ...
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Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War Against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle Eastdemonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond.In...
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Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative ...
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