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The Twelve Quizzes Of Christmas

by Frank Paul

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 The master of the British pub quiz is here to delight and bamboozle us this Christmas
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A Game Of Deceit - A Richard Knox Spy Thriller

by Tim Glister

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 In this crackerjack Cold War thriller, MI5 faces a deadly threat, one only Richard Knox can avert. But he only has six days and the clock is ticking fast.
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Pickup Artists - Street Basketball In America

by Chad Millman e Lars Anderson

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 A historiography of basketball.
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Red Dirt - Growing Up Okie

by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

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 Drawing on the stories she heard in her early years, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz explores the lives of poor rural whites in the USA. She aims to take the reader into the minds of this group of people in order to understand their faith and sense of loss.
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Writing From The Left - New Essays On Radical Culture And Politics

by Alan M Wald

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 In this collection of essays, the author combines a series of assessments of "classic" and "lost" texts in the US Marxist literary tradition, and analyzes developments in Marxist scholarship by Robin Kelley, Michael Lowy, James Murphy, Paula Rabinowitz and Alexander Saxton.
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Building The Workingman'S Paradise - The Design Of American Company Towns

by Margaret Crawford

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 This work surveys the 200-year history of company towns in the United States - a crucial chapter in the increasingly important area of urban studies. Crawford analyzes the development of the towns in a complex framework involving economic, social and ideological influences.
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Where The Boys Are - Cuba, Cold War And The Making Of A New Left

by Van Gosse

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 Discusses US-Latin relations in the 1950s. Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, Van Gosse investigates the alliance of North American intellectuals, old leftists and rebellious youth which came together through the inspiration of Fidel Castro's revolutionary guerillas.
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It'S Not About A Salary - Rap, Race, And Resistance In Los Angeles

by Brian Cross

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 This photo-history of rap in Los Angeles sets out to tell the stories of LA's multiple inhabitants, providing a voice first for African Americans then, through hip-hop, for many others. Artists interviewed include: Roy Porter; The Watts Prophets; Nefertiti; Ice Cube; DJ Quik; and Eazy E.
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Race, Politics, And Economic Development - Community Perspectives

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 This text brings together black activists and scholars, including two former mayors of American cities, to analyze the theoretical and practical problems currently facing the black community in the United States
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The Year Left Volume 2, Toward A Rainbow Socialism - Essays On Race, Ethnicity, Class And Gender

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 Volume Two of The Year Left focuses on questions of race and ethnicity, surveying the prospects for a 'Rainbow Socialism' as well as examining the contemporary trends in Black and Hispanic popular culture.
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Imagineering Atlanta - The Politics Of Place In The City Of Dreams

by Charles C Rutheiser

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 This is an examination of Atlanta, the city of the 1996 Olympics, looking at its uneven development. Focusing on the historic core of the city, it shows how it provides a fertile ground for the investigation of culture and power within the city.
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Twice The Work Of Free Labor - The Political Economy Of Convict Labor In The New South

by Alex Lichtenstein

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 Both a study of penal labour in the Southern United States and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War, this book reveals that the economic modernization of the South was largely promoted through the use of forced black labour - penal slavery.
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Towards The Abolition Of Whiteness - Essays On Race, Politics, And Working Class History

by David R Roediger

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 Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this prize-winning author offers reflections on how the history of white racism continues to have impact on political and social life today. His previous book, "The Wages of Whiteness" won the Merle Curti Prize for Social History in 1991.
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Public Access - Literary Theory And American Cultural Politics

by Michael Berube

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 This text provides an explanation of the political correctness argument: how it emerged and how right-wing pundits have used it to undermine contemporary criticism. In a series of essays, BÃ©rubÃ© examines such issues as the current state of cultural studies and the significance of postmodernism.
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Late Imperial Culture

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 A work of criticism on the cultures of imperialism. Fundamental to the editors' conceptualization is the premise that while colonialism may be a thing of the past for the majority of the world's people, its legacies in political, economic and ideological structures continue to shape the world.
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The Way The Wind Blew - A History Of The Weather Underground

by Ron Jacobs

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 This history of the Weatherman Underground covers the origins, development and ultimate demise of the organization. Drawing on an array of documents, interviews with participants, and a knowledge of the history of the New Left, Jacobs gives an objective assessment of US 1960s radicalism.
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Mechanic Accents - Dime Novels And Working-Class Culture In America

by Michael Denning

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 A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture, combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question.
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White Guys - Studies In Postmodern Domination And Difference

by Fred Pfeil

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 This collection of essays exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s. It considers white, mainstream masculinity through direct participation in its rituals and practices.
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Labor And The Course Of American Democracy - Us History In Latin American Perspective

by Charles Bergquist

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 This study on economic development and ideological formation in the Americas shows how the much-vaunted achievement of US democracy has been secured by the political stunting of Latin America, and how US historians have systematically ignored the intertwining of Latin America and US history.
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Roll Over Che Guevara - Travels Of A Radical Reporter

by Marc Cooper

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 Travelling as a radical journalist in a reactionary world, Marc Cooper chronicles, with humour and detail, the events that make the headlines. He takes readers on a tour of the New World Order - Pinochet's Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Soweto, Moscow and the USA.
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Strange Weather - Culture, Science And Technology In The Age Of Limits

by Andrew Ross

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 'The definitive study of the technoculture which increasingly dominates our lives.' Joel Kovel
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Workers In A Lean World - Unions In The International Economy

by Kim Moody

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 A comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, this book surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work.
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Imagining Home - Class, Culture And Nationalism In The African Diaspora

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 This collection of essays questions the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its American and British descendants. It combines literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics.
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Circus Americanus

by Ralph Rugoff

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 Takes readers on a guided tour of some of the world's leading museums and some of the most unusual. Making unexpected connections and juxtapositions, this book allows readers to perceive and enjoy the beautiful, the bizarre and the downright perverse in places we never thought of looking before.
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