The way we learn has changed: institutionalised learning has transformed into new forms of critical learning and open collaboration. This book offers a historical and political framework to think about the future of learning and educational media. It offers an overview of the use of new technologies and learning practices.

A work about the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), a campaign with a wide variety of branches, globally whose aim is to improve the wages and conditions of garment/sweatshop workers world wide. It presents the story of this struggle.

Barack Obama's 'improbable quest' has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. This title tracks the sweep of this progress from the beginning of Obama's political career through his move into the White House.

Presents an insider's account of Columbia's internal conflict. This title explains where and why this political military movement came into existence and assesses whether the methods employed by the insurgency have the potential to free those marginalised in Colombia.

Media Lens is a media monitoring outfit. They are believers in Chomsky's Propaganda Model of the media, that the corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. This book shows how this plays out in practice through their dialogues with individuals.

Neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. This title argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parties or international institutions, but from the global networks of resistance to neoliberal economics, known collectively as the Alter-globalisation movement.

Argues that the financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will challenge the free market economic model. This book shows that the housing bubbles in the West were deliberately created to mask the damage inflicted by companies shifting production abroad in an attempt to boost profits.

Dissects the policy mistakes, including Obama's doomed market-led response to the crisis and the obsession of central banks with the red herring of inflation. This title warns that the collapse of Eastern European economies can lead to political crisis in the ex-Soviet states that embraced neoliberalism and massive debt levels so fully.

Offers descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world. This book identifies a pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference. It is suitable for those continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our times.

Assess how social and political changes have transformed the areas of East London, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s. This title is based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.

A beginner's guide to Hamas. It covers the major events since the January 2006 elections, including the conflict with Fatah and Israel's brutal offensive in Gaza at the end of 2008. It gives an overview of Hamas' history, key beliefs, and its political agenda.

Captures the graffiti and art that has transformed Israel's wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity. This book of photos features the work of artists including Banksy, Ron English, Blu and others, as well as Palestinian artists and activists. The photos express outrage, compassion, and touching humour.

The Communist Manifesto .

Shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. This work also shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream. It systematically explores the causal links between capitalism and climate change.

The study of white ethnicities is becoming important in the social sciences. Whiteness has traditionally been seen as 'ethnically transparent' - the marker against which other ethnicities are measured. This book provides a critical introduction to the topic. It is suitable for sociology students taking modules in race and ethnicity.

Traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution. This book presents an account that traces the threads of revolution of various movements, including the influence of 'political Shi'ism' and the Iranian Revolution and its impact on Hezbollah and Hamas.

An introduction and exposition to the Uno approach of Marx's work.

Deals with the author's own experience and memory of the 1929-31 recession. This book presents an argument against capitalist expansion, exploitation and oligarchic rule. It is suitable for students of political economy, economic history, contemporary economics and global politics.

Think of Latin America and what do you see? Cocaine? Carnevale? Chaos? This book explores how these and other stereotypes about Latin America came into being and what their currency tells us about ourselves.