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The Government of Self and Others
Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; Edited by Frédéric Gros; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"The publication of Foucault's lectures is momentous not only because they deepen our understanding of his books and essays, but because they dramatically change the way we read him. This study of the ancient practice of parresia—philosophical truth-telling—forces us to abandon the view that his late thought was a turn way from politics. The key question in these lectures is the relationship between philosophy and politics: their necessary dependence, but impossible coincidence. The political significance of philosophy was an acute problem for Foucault throughout his life. It remains a definitive question today for anyone concerned with the future of Western political thought and practice."—
Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee, UK
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The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
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The Value of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Raj Patel
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“With great lucidity and confidence in a dazzling array of fields, Patel reveals how we inflate the cost of things we can (and often should) live without, while assigning absolutely no value to the resources we all need to survive. This is a deeply thought-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness—argued with so much humor and humanity that the enormous tasks ahead feel both doable and desirable. This is Raj Patel's great gift: he makes even the most radical ideas seem not only reasonable, but inevitable. A brilliant book.”—
Naomi Klein, author
The Shock Doctrine
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
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"What
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does, and does very well, is teach. Sandel explains theories of justice based on utilitarianism (minimize social harm), libertarianism (maximize personal freedom) and communitarianism (cultivate civic virtue) with clarity and immediacy honed by years of classroom presentation; the ideas of Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick and John Rawls have rarely, if ever, been set out as accessibly. Sandel’s virtuosic untangling of Kant’s notorious knots, in under 40 pages, is worth the price of admission by itself . . . In terms we can all understand, [
Justice
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Jonathan Rauch,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Unconquerable World
Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Jonathan Schell
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"[Schell] argues that what we are witnessing today is nothing less than the end of armed conflict as we know it. The 'war system' that long pitted nations against one another is dying, undone by politics and the development of ever more potent weapons. A new, nonviolent approach to politics is about to take its place . . . The vision he paints of his imagined future is a glorious one."—
Jonathan D. Tepperman,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Best Intentions
Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
James Traub
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"Is the United Nations boring and irrelevant? This book certainly is not. Call the organization a 'haven of hypocrites' or 'humanity's best hope,' tote up its many miseries and few glories. But if you want to understand this vexing creature with its 192 heads,
The Best Intentions
is one of the finest guides around, indeed, the best in recent memory . . . Traub, always the dispassionate analyst, neither condemns nor condones. His is a melancholy tale, beautifully written and meticulously researched—about a hero who was not so much flawed as indecisive, whose clout could never measure up to his lofty purpose. How could it? A secretary general is precisely what the title says: a secretary beholden to 192 bosses, all seeking power while pretending to serve the common good."—
Josef Joffe,
The New York Times
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Opportunism
How to Change the World--One Idea at a Time
Shraga F. Biran
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this bold and forward-looking book, an Israeli civic leader shows how reorienting our society to make the most of “opportunity” could restore the global...
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People Before Profit
The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis
Charles Derber; With a New Foreword by Noam Chomsky
Picador
"The 'basic principle' of this ambitious study is the task of 'reinventing globalization' by 'reinventing democracy.' Interweaving personal experiences around the world with careful analysis of global economic, political, and cultural trends, Derber makes a powerful case for the urgency of this task, and outlines constructive approaches to pursuing it successfully. A provocative and stimulating work, directed to issues of the highest significance."—
Noam Chomsky
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The Spirit of Democracy
The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
Larry Diamond
St. Martin's Griffin
“Larry Diamond, one of the most preeminent students of democracy today, explains why this system of government remains an achievable goal for most countries around the world, despite recent setbacks in places like Russia and Venezuela.
The Spirit of Democracy
is a worthwhile corrective to America's post-Iraq pessimism about the future of democratic ideals throughout the world.”—
Francis Fukuyama, author of
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Blood Rites
Origins and History of the Passions of War
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Global Woman
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
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"This very interesting collection focuses on the multiple effects of globalization on women and their families. Among its subjects are the rise in female migration, the transfer of domestic services from low- to high-income countries, the care crisis left behind by transnational families, and the problems of international sex tourism. The different essays raise key questions and are important reading for our time."—
Lourdes Beneria, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies at Cornell University
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The Age of Deception
Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Mohamed ElBaradei
Picador
“Mohammed ElBaradei is one of the genuinely great leaders of his generation.”—Graham T. Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the...
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault
Picador
"The English translation of
Security, Territory and Population
is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault’s work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life,' which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic—what he called 'the government of the self and others'—the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work.
Security, Territory and Population
might thus properly be called the ‘missing link’ that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault’s later thought . . . Burchell’s translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault’s fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt."—
Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor,
Continental Philosophy Review
, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
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"Society Must Be Defended"
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by David Macey; Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...
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The Courage of Truth
The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983--1984
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Edited by Arnold I. Davidson; Translated by Graham Burchell
Picador
“[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”
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The New York Review of Books
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The Future of War
Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-first Century
George and Meredith Friedman
St. Martin's Griffin
The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global...
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The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador
Updated and Expanded Edition
"
The World Is Flat
continues the franchise Friedman has made for himself as a great explicator of and cheerleader for globalization, building upon his 1999
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
. Like its predecessor, this book showcases Friedman's gift for lucid dissections of abstruse economic phenomena, his teacher's head, his preacher's heart, his genius for trend-spotting . . . [This book] also shares some of the earlier volume's excitement (mirroring Rajesh Rao's) and hesitations about whether we're still living in an era dominated by old-fashioned states or in a postmodern, globalized era where states matter far less and the principal engine of change is a leveled playing field for international trade."—
Warren Bass,
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The Secret Histories
Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World
John S. Friedman
Picador
Official histories have determined our view of the past. Governments and those in power have tried to preserve and reveal only information that serves their...
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Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Picador
"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—
Foreign Affairs
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The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Rose George
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"In the name of research, Ms. George waded through sewers and checked out latrines all over the globe. On paper, she glides with rueful and articulate poise through the biology, ecology, physiology, psychology and basic hydraulics of her subject, always articulate and persuasive. Even if you are inclined to think health-care dollars should be put into titanium rather than porcelain, you will be hard pressed to put this extraordinary book down."—
Abigail Zuger, M.D.,
The New York Times
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Living in Hope and History
Notes from Our Century
Nadine Gordimer
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"Gripping and important . . . A rare glimpse of the crumbling of the last bastion of colonialism, told by a writer of consummate skill."—
Steven Harvey
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Dispatches from the War Room
In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders
Stanley B. Greenberg
Thomas Dunne Books
The fascinating “war room” memoir of a political pollster and how he helped forge the agendas of five high-profile heads of state As a hired gun strategist,...
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The Eagle's Shadow
Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
Mark Hertsgaard; New Afterword by the Author
Picador
"Engaging and informative . . . a revealing portrait on others' current views of the 'Parochial Superpower' and everything associated with it . . . Hertsgaard captures the mixed and often confusing presumptions of those who see America from afar and often through Hollywood-tinted glasses, and he offers a variety of explanations why, as his subtitle states, America fascinates and infuriates the world."—
Peter I. Rose,
The Christian Science Monitor
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Virtual War
Kosovo and Beyond
Michael Ignatieff
Picador
"Ignatieff has produced a work that is both intellectually unflinching and genuinely open-minded. Ostensibly a consideration on the moral and political implications of the West's military intervention in Kosovo, the book is in fact the best exploration of both the operational and moral dilemmas of humanitarian war that has yet been written . . . A considerable achievement."--
David Rieff,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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