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Poisoned Legacy
The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power

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On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore...
  
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Groove Interrupted
Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans

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The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city’s vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith...
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Herding Donkeys
The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

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With a New Afterword In 2008, Barack Obama’s groundbreaking presidential campaign seemingly rewrote all the rules in electoral politics and heralded a new...
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From Beirut to Jerusalem

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National Bestseller Winner of the National Book Award Updated with a New Chapter Author of The World Is Flat and That Used to Be Us One of the most...
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Examined Lives
From Socrates to Nietzsche

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the...
  
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War Along the Borderline

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With a New Afterword In 2009, Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tijuana to...
  
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Conversations with Myself

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Foreword by President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts...
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War Is Not Over When It's Over
Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

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From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims:...
  
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Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America

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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans...
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Dark Harbor
The War for the New York Waterfront

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“They’d never kill a reporter....” On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the New York...
  

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A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Stories from Rwanda

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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Regarding the Pain of Others

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Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture...
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The Good Soldiers

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The Birth of Biopolitics
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979
Lectures at the Collège de France

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The sixth volume in Foucault’s prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.
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Against Interpretation
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First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in...
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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our...
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A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra,...
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Night Draws Near
Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

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Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the...
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On the Rez

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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge...
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
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Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new...
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982
Lectures at the Collège de France

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The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public...