7 Top nonfiction books like Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales

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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

By: Kevin Bales

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trappe…

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1. No Logo

By: Naomi Klein

3.89

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

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2. Between the Assassinations

By: Aravind Adiga

3.38

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the wes… read more

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3. The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

By: Pietra Rivoli

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around the world … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

By: James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more

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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

5. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century

By: Robert B. Marks

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Purity

By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more

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7. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

By: Kevin Bales

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trappe… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Bales's Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy book and Kevin Bales's Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology

8. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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10. China's Last Empire: The Great Qing

By: Timothy Brook , William T. Rowe

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a d… read more

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11. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

By: Linda Coverdale , Susan Sontag , Jean Hatzfeld

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

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12. Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

By: Siddharth Kara

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold in… read more

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13. Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective

By: Louise Shelley

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the traffic… read more

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14. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more

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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

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15. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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16. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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17. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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18. The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2: A Story of Human Sacrifice

By: Jonathan Hickman

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found. From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF … read more

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19. The Twelve Days of Murder

By: Andreina Cordani

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends created the exclusive Masquerade Murder Society while in college. The murders they so… read more

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20. Piętno (Igor Brudny, #1)

By: Przemysław Piotrowski

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Igor Brudny to twardy warszawski glina, który woli nie wracać do swojej przeszłości. Tym razem może… read more

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21. The Lost Van Gogh

By: Jonathan Santlofer

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more

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7 Top history books like Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales

Transform Your Habits

No Logo

Naomi Klein

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

Pietra Rivoli

3.92

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century

Robert B. Marks

4.56

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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Kevin Bales

3.46

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight

Ed Brubaker , Sean Phillips , Michael Lark

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

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