Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
By: Oswaldo Zavala
4.08
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z…
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1. Against Empire
By: Michael Parenti
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hi… read more
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"In sum, the myth of a self-reliant, free-market, trickle-down economy is just that, a myth. In almost every enterprise, government provides business with supports, protections, and opportunities for …"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Designed to leave the world's economic destiny at the mercy of bankers and multinational corporations, Globalization is a logical extension of imperialism, a victory of empire over republic, internat…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is an…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General E…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
2. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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3. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. The Twenty Days of Turin
By: Giorgio De Maria , Ramon Glazov
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space whe… read more
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5. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
By: Alfred W. McCoy
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics… read more
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6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
7. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
By: David McGowan
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more
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8. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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9. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
10. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
By: Octavio Paz , Lysander Kemp , Yara Milos
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this internationa… read more
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11. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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12. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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13. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
14. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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15. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
By: Wendy S. Painting
4.58
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more
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16. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
17. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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18. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.39
Format: 353 pages, ebook
La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more
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19. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
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20. The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
By: Benjamin T. Smith
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white a… read more
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21. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
By: Oswaldo Zavala
4.08
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more
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