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Through Japanese Eyes, 4th EditionClick to Read Education About Asia ReviewABOUT THE BOOK:Through Japanese Eyes shows us Japane…

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Through Japanese Eyes, 4th Edition

Gaveling Down the RabbleHow “Free Trade” Is Stealing Our Democracy

In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United St
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Gaveling Down the Rabble

Through Indian Eyes, 5th Edition

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Through Chinese Eyes, 3rd EditionTradition, Revolution and Transformation

 

Click to Read Education About Asia ReviewABOUT THE BOOK: Through Chinese Eyes tells the sweeping story

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Through Chinese Eyes, 3rd Edition

Maxwell Manual for Good CitizenshipPublic Policy Skills in Action

 

This is a completely revised update of the third edition of Public Policy Skills. That manual has been used to teach more than 30,000 students at Syracuse University and in a college cre …Hardback; view book details to see other formats.

$40.00

Maxwell Manual for Good Citizenship

The Rule of Property

In The Rule of Property, Karen Coulter offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the rise of private property over the public domain by linking two popular streams of thought: th …Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book details to see other formats.

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The Rule of Property

You Call This a DemocracyWho benefits, who pays, and who really decides

 

You Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U.S. ruling class and the power elite dominate wealth, power and decision-making in all aspects of our l
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You Call This a Democracy

Creating a Sustainable World Past Experiences/Future Struggles

 

For years now, promoters of development and growth have attempted to paint themselves “green,” claiming that development is sustainable. In a new book, Creating a Sustainable World: Past
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Creating a Sustainable World

The Bhopal ReaderRemembering twenty years of the world’s worst industrial disaster

 

This chronicle of the multifaceted Bhopal campaign against two of the world’s most powerful chemical corporations, Union Carbide and Dow Chemical Co. (which now owns Union Carbide), par
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The Bhopal Reader

The Bhopal SagaCauses and Consequences of the Worlds Largest Industrial Disaster

 

The Bhopal Saga is an incisive medicial and scientific analysis of the world’s worst industrial accident. On the night of December 2 1984, while Bhopal slept, 43 tons of methylisocyanate
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The Bhopal Saga

Bhopal: The Inside StoryUpdated Second Edition

On the night of December 2, 1984, forty tons of deadly methyl isocyanate leaked out of a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killing thousands and injuring many more. Bhopal: T
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Bhopal: The Inside Story

Clouds of InjusticeBhopal Disaster 20 Years On

This Amnesty International report uses the Bhopal case to illustrate corporate evasion of human rights responsibilities and underlines the need to establish a universal human rights fram
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Clouds of Injustice

Trespass Against UsDow Chemical & The Toxic Century

 

The public release of Trespass Against Us was timed to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, for which Dow still accepts no liability for its wholly owned sub
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Trespass Against Us

The Ambushed Grand JuryHow the Justice Department covered up government nuclear crimes and how we caught them red handed

What happens when citizens investigate the government’s cover-up of dangerous nuclear crimes? And catch them red handed? The Ambushed Grand Jury is the true story of how a cowboy
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The Ambushed Grand Jury

Divided We FallThe Story of the Paperworkers’ Union and the Future of Labor

“An unflinching picture of workers fighting against overwhelming odds for justice in the workplace. As Peter Kellman tells it in these pages, workers even have to fight to keep the knowledg
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Divided We Fall

Greed and GoodUnderstanding and overcoming the inequality that limits our lives

This extraordinary book deserves the highest possible recommendation…. – Choice magazineShould we care that wealth in the United States is unequally distributed &mda …

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Greed and Good

Manifesto for Global DemocracyTwo essays on imperialism and the struggle for freedom

The U.S. ideology of Manifest Destiny, now at the core of the U.S. assertion of the right to intervene anywhere and occupy anyplace, in the name of freedom, security, and civilization, i …Paperback; view book details to see other formats.

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Manifesto for Global Democracy

War and Peace and DemocracyFour essays that ask: why again? And where goes the peace movement after Iraq?

Of all the possible responses to the attacks of September 11, why did the U.S. government choose war? What can a reactivated peace movement learn from the Iraq war and from 20th Century
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War and Peace and Democracy

The Elite Consensus

Financial and business corporations throw millions of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl s
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The Elite Consensus

Myth AmericaDemocracy vs. Capitalism

Myth America exposes the lag of major American institutions behind the demands of the 21st century and the reinforcement of this lag by the media and schools miseducating the publ
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Myth America

Rule of Power or Rule of Law?An assessment of U.S. policies and actions regarding security-related treaties

Rule of Power or Rule of Law? assesses U.S. compliance with nine treaties addressing some of the most urgent global security threats, ranging from proliferation of weapons of mass
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Rule of Power or Rule of Law?

Through Middle Eastern Eyes, 4th Edition (Post-9/11)

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Through Middle Eastern Eyes, 4th Edition (Post-9/11)

Five Past Midnight in BhopalThe Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster

The best selling author of such classic works as Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem, and The City of Joy, Dominique Lapierre is among the premier storytellers in the wor …Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book details to see other formats.

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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal

Washington’s New Poor LawWelfare “reform” and the roads not taken, 1935 to the present

A clear and compelling account….challenges both conservative and liberal views on welfare dependency.— Philip Harvey, Professor of Law, Rutgers Un …

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Washington's New Poor Law

Defying Corporations, Defining DemocracyA book of history and strategy

In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as “legal persons”; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state co …Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book details to see other formats.

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Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy

Building UnionsPast, present and future

Your union local or activist community group is doing good work against one corporate assault after another. But your successes aren’t making the next campaigns easier. Or challenging pu
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Building Unions

Through African Eyes V2Culture and society: Continuity and change

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THE BOOK:In Volume 2, we are introduced to African societies and cultures in all of their richness and diversity. Coming of age, family values, changing gender roles, r …

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Through African Eyes V2

Seeds of FireSocial Development in an Era of Globalism

Wilson and Whitmore, two activists with a history of “walking the talk”
of working for social justice, offer a well-researched, provocative
wake-up call for everyone concerned with the s
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Seeds of Fire

Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet

At
the heart of the current global environmental crisis lie difficult moral choices, which are central to religion. This book explores the connections between faith and ecology, seeking to r …

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Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet

Challenging Corporate Rule The Petition to Revoke Unocal’s Charter as a Guide to Citizen Action

The complete text of the historic complaint by a coalition of some 25 local, state and national women’s environmental and other civil society organizations to the California Attorney General
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Challenging Corporate Rule

The Nuclear Power Deception U.S. Nuclear Mythology From Electricity “Too Cheap To Meter” to “Inherently Safe” Reactors

This book provides critical analysis and historical evidence to refute the claims of the nuclear power industry that nuclear power can alleviate the build-up of greenhouse gases and reduce U …, Trade paperback (US); view book details to see other formats.

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The Nuclear Power Deception

One Man’s War A Memoir of World War II

A compelling affirmation of General Sherman’s pronouncement that war is hell, this memoir gives a vivid picture of what it was like to be a foot soldier in the greatest conflict in human his
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One Man's War

Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal The historic opinion of the World court and hot it will be enforced

In July 1996 the International Court of Justice made history by declaring nuclear weapons illegal. Here is the complete decision of the Court, including the separate opinions and dissent
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Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal

Pain on Their Faces Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike – Jay, Maine, 1987-1988 — By the Jay-Livermore Falls Working Class History Project

Pain on Their Faces is a moving account of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful corporation – a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company
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Pain on Their Faces

Global Aggression INFACT (Corporate Accountabilty International)

An expose of the role of the US-based tobacco corporations Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco in aggressively promoting tobacco internationally, contributing to the deaths of 3.5 million people w
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Global Aggression

Greenwash The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism

In recent years, transnational corporations (TNCs) have been greenwashing their dismal environmental performance by posing as friends of the environment. This new book provides an overview o … $8.95

Greenwash

Building Sustainable Communities  2nd Revised Edition

A revised edition of a classic work long out of print, this book is based on the Schumacher Society Seminars on Community Economic Transformation. It presents the underlying ideas and essent …Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book
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Building Sustainable Communities

A World That Works Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable Society

Animated by the proposition that an economics constrained by respect for the natural world and human dignity is possible, this volume offers a rich menu of alternative ideas and experiences

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A World That Works

Nurtured by Knowledge Learning by doing participatory action-research

This book examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle
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Nurtured by Knowledge

Inhuman Rights The Western System and Global Human Rights Abuse – 50 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948-1998)

Winin Pereira’s ‘Inhuman Rights: The Western System and Global Human Rights Abuse’ presents a sharply critical and revealing account of how the West has actually misused conventionally defin
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Inhuman Rights

Greening Cities  Building Just and Sustainable Communities

Greening Cities is a treasure trove of practical ideas that embody Green values of social and environmental justice and are actually working on the ground in small, medium, and large
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Greening Cities

Economics, Culture and Society – Alternative Approaches: Dissenting Views from Economic Orthodoxy

The essayists in this volume are united in their deep dissatisfaction with neoclassical economics and the dominance of the market as they explore alternative approaches to economics in its s
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Economics, Culture and Society - Alternative Approaches:

Development Ethics  A Guide to Theory and Practice

A pioneering work by one of the pioneers in development ethics, who has long been at the leading edge of development in linking the worlds of thought and action. This new field of study has
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Development Ethics

A Guide to New York State Government Edited by Mary Jo Fairbanks, League of Women Voters of NY State

This seventh edition brings you the who, where, when, and how questions and answers about New York State government. An excellent supplement to courses on New York State government and insti …Hardback; view book details to see other formats.

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A Guide to New York State Government

Taking Care of Business Citizenship and the charter of incorporation (5th printing)

Taking Care of Business discusses the rise of the powerful corporation, its transformation into personhood, and the need for the structural reform of governance of …Pamphlet; view book
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Taking Care of Business

The Blinded Eye 500 Years of Christopher Columbus

The authors draw out a firm thread connecting Columbus’ attitude to the ‘natives’ he discovered with the attitudes of ‘developers’ today who continue to believe that ordinary people and vill
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The Blinded Eye

The Good Neighbor Handbook A Community-based Strategy for Sustainable Industry

This invaluable resource is a product of the Good Neighbor Project, focused on community-based negotiations with corporations on environmental and economic issues, as embodied in Good Neighb
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The Good Neighbor Handbook

The GAIA Atlas of Green Economics

Every day, all over the world, billions of people play their part in humanity’s global growth economy. Money is the god, material wealth the principal virtue, and market economics the ruler
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The GAIA Atlas of Green Economics

The Maximum Wage A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America – By Taxing the Very Rich

More than 5 decades ago, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt advanced the most daring legislative proposal of the entire New Deal era: a maximum wage on the incomes of America’s wealthy
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The Maximum Wage

Through African Eyes V1  The Past: The road to independence

ABOUT THE BOOK:Africa, dark only because of our ignorance of it, comes alive through the eyes and voices of its people in this classic work. First published more than two dec …

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Through African Eyes V1

Action and Knowledge Breaking the Monopoly with Participatory Action-Research

Action and Knowledge draws on twenty years of experience with the techniques and philosophy of Participatory Action-Research (PAR). PAR is an innovative approach to economic and soci
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Action and Knowledge

Chicken Little Tomato Sauce and Agriculture – Who will produce tomorrow’s food?

In a science fiction classic published over 5 decades ago, readers were confronted with an arresting image of “Chicken Little”, a legless, wingless, headless, featherless technological trium
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Chicken Little

The Vietnam War and Public Policy

The Development of U.S. policy on the Vietnam War is a study in public policy analysis. To fully understand the how and why of our involvement in the Vietnam War, we must first understand th
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The Vietnam War and Public Policy

Abuse of Power Social Performance of Multinational Corporations: The Case of Union Carbide

The enormous size and global reach of multinational corporations make it increasingly difficult for any one country to hold them accountable when they behave recklessly. This book demons
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Abuse of Power

The Uncertain Promise Value Conflicts in Technology Transfer

A powerful and original book by one of the pioneers in the ethics of development. The author peels away the mystique surrounding modern technology to lay its basic dynamism and its dual nat
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The Uncertain Promise

Humanistic Economics The New Challenge

Economics has long been imprisoned by a one-dimensional view of the person and the narrow assumption of self-interest that this entails. Humanistic Economics breaks out of this paradigm by p
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The Bhopal Syndrome Pesticides, environment, and health

This classic work, once again available, examines the implications of the world’s worst industrial disaster for three communities around the world harboring extremely hazardous chemical
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The Bhopal Syndrome

Designs For Evaluating Social Programs – PS11 Policy Studies Associates (PSA)

This manual introduces students to the basic concepts and designs necessary to evaluate social programs. Activities are provided to help students understand the factors jeopardizing validity
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Designs For Evaluating Social Programs - PS11

The Bhopal Tragedy What really happened and what it means for American workers and communities at risk

This hard-hitting report to the Citizens Commission on Bhopal was the first book-length account of the Bhopal tragedy and its implications for American workers and communities exposed to
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The Bhopal Tragedy

Political Analysis Through the Prince System – PS23 Policy Studies Associates (PSA)

Introduces students to the elements of a widely known and used system for making political forecasts and developing political strategies. Students are introduced to the concept of a politica
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Political Analysis Through the Prince System - PS23