Politics/Current Affairs

Exposes the secret history of US torture at home and abroad.

'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman

Against the privatisation of water

Afghanistan's unstable history has been further complicated by the emergence of the Taliban - one of the most conservative and least understood Islamic movements. This book provides an account of the background to the ongoing conflict in the area, and a profile of the Taliban movement itself.

Pocket-sized guide to the best websites on Black interest and culture

A critical engagement with citizen participation, state power and the difficulties of realising the principles of participatory democracy

To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in Central Asia. This book provides an account of this alliance and how the CIA planned and ran a holy war in Afghanistan.

The former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine brings his life's work together to discuss how the region can find peace

An account of modern liberation theory in today's Capitalistic Latin America

The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom of expression and freedom of the press. True, it freed the Japanese press from many wartime constraints. But at the same time, it imposed a large number of new constraints, replacing wartime censorship by ...

A call to arms from the leader of the Liberal Democrats that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women.

More serious than global terrorism. More urgent than global warming - the world is running out of oil

International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.

How and why Bolivia's radical government under Morales came to power, and the challenges it faces.

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Responding to the call to public service, he had afront-row seat from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s. This is his inside account of the lives of public servants from the perspective of a lifelong moderate.

Using recent economic crises in the United States, Europe and Argentina to examine the interactions of power, politics and markets, Shambaugh analyses how political uncertainty affects market risks and identifies the conditions under which economic technocrats can compensate for political turmoil and manage market behaviour.

Oil and gas are running out faster than the vast majority of people realise and this will have seismic consequences for the whole world. Even by the year 2005, oil will start to become in short supply, prices will start going up, and politicians will opt for the nuclear energy option - with all the consequences that this option implies.

We Are Feminist is an accessible and fully-illustrated book that tells the story of the women's movement over the past 150 years. In a fantastic gift format, it's the perfect introduction to modern feminism for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the women's rights movement. The book ...

China vs America is a powerful call to correct the collision course on which the great powers of the world are currently embarked before it is too late.