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"Yasuni Green Gold"

The Amazon Fight to Keep Oil Underground

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Features a simple message in photographs: leave the oil in the soil and protect the Yasuni rainforest and its people. With 150 colour photographs. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 286 x 240 mm. Weight: 1048g.
Author:  (Wells, Troth, ed.)
ISBN:  1906523010
Publisher:  New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Date:  2008  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Street-Fighting Years"

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In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, meeting such figures as Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger and Mick Jagger along the way. With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 203 x 152 mm. Weight: 133g.
Author:  Ali, Tanq
ISBN:  1844670295
Publisher:  Verso Books
Date:  2005  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina"

The Gray Zone of State Power

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"Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics" series; Mcadam, Douglas (ed.) This book scrutinizes the series of food riots in Argentina in December 2001. With 3 tables. Paperback, 208 pages. Size: 229 x 151 mm. Weight: 295g.
Author:  Auyero, Javier
ISBN:  0521694116
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
Date:  2007  (United States)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Hold Everything Dear"

Despatches on Survival and Resistance

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From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, this title explores the countless personal choices, encounters, illuminations, sacrifices, desires, griefs and memories that occur in the course of political resistance to empire and colonialism. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 197 x 127 mm. Weight: 253g.
Author:  Berger, John
ISBN:  1844671380
Publisher:  Verso Books
Date:  2007  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Hold Everything Dear"

Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

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From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, this book focuses on what political resistance means. With ill. Paperback, 160 pages. Weight: 175g.
Author:  Berger, John
ISBN:  1844672549
Publisher:  Verso Books
Date:  2008  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Everyday Politics"

Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life

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As Mark Twain said about the weather, everybody talks about the need for a new politics of participation and deliberation, but nobody does anything about it. Harry Boyte has. Through a combination of experience, political analysis, and philosophy, he sho New ed. Paperback, 260 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 90g.
Author:  Boyte, Harry C.
ISBN:  0812219317
Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press
Date:  2005  (United States)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Time of the Rebels"

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At the start of the 21st century, a wave of revolution moved across the former Communist east. At the heart of the revolutions was a new kind of youth movement. A story of those movements, this work tells how the participants created resistance movements, defying threats, violence and mass arrests in an attempt to change their countries. Paperback, 224 pages. Weight: 246g.
Author:  Collin, Matthew
ISBN:  185242964X
Publisher:  Profile Books Ltd
Date:  2007  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  Undergraduate Political Activism

"Patterns of Protest"

Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia

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"Lab Short Books" series; Paperback, 162 pages. Size: 178 x 111 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author:  Crabtree, John
ISBN:  1899365710
Publisher:  Latin America Bureau
Date:  2005  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism"

A Woman's Crusade

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"Politics & Society in Twentieth Century America" series; Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. This provocative book sheds light on Schlafly's life, and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transforming America's political landscape. With 24 halftones. 1 table.. Hardback, 438 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 942g.
Author:  Critchlow, Donald T.
ISBN:  0691070024
Publisher:  University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date:  2005  (United States)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Sylvia Pankhurst"

A Life in Radical Politics

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This biography of Sylvia Pankhurst explores her lifelong political activism for radical causes, including women's rights, labour organization and international solidarity. She made contributions to revolutionary communist politics and the struggles against imperialism, racism and fascism. With notes, references, bibliog , index. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 215 x 135 mm. Weight: 298g.
Author:  Davis, Mary
ISBN:  0745315186
Publisher:  Pluto Press
Date:  1999  (UK)
Readership:  General Political Activism

"Another World is Possible If"

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Participants in the worldwide citizen's movement for social change and global justice like to proclaim that 'Another world is possible'. But is it? To this popular slogan, Susan George adds a cautionary 'If' and proposes how we can indeed reach that Other World. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 190 x 140 mm. Weight: 338g.
Author:  George, Susan
ISBN:  1844675106
Publisher:  Verso Books
Date:  2004  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Ricardo's Law"

House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam

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With index. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 629g.
Author:  Harrison, Fred
ISBN:  0856832413
Publisher:  Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
Date:  2006  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry"

Activism, Innovation and the Environment in an Era of Globalization

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"Urban & Industrial Environments" series; Combines theoretical discussion and case studies to demonstrate how social movements and related activism have affected innovation in science, technology, and industry in the United States. This work explores the interaction of grassroots environmental action and mainstream industry and offers a conceptual framework for understanding it. With 1 illus.. Paperback, 360 pages. Size: 228 x 153 mm. Weight: 467g.
Author:  Hess, David J.
ISBN:  0262582724
Publisher:  Mit Press Ltd
Date:  2007  (United States)
Readership:  Professional & Vocational Political Activism

"The Better World Handbook"

Small Changes That Make a Big Difference

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Intended for those who care about creating a more just, sustainable and socially responsible world but don't know where to begin, this book contains information on global problems, effective actions, and resources. With 100 b&w illus and charts. New ed. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 230 x 155 mm. Weight: 9489g.
Author:  Jones, Ellis Johnson, Brett
ISBN:  0865715750
Publisher:  New Society Publishers
Date:  2007  (Canada)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

"Activism!"

Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society

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"Foci" series; Presenting an account of a new, collective type of activism, this text examines all types of activism - from animal liberationists to neo-facist agitators - and proposes that this new activism will create the ethical values of our future society. With 8 illustrations. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 210 x 150 mm. Weight: 338g.
Author:  Jordan, Tim
ISBN:  1861891229
Publisher:  Reaktion Books
Date:  2002  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Political Activism

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