This work is a personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost political writers. The author records the lives and struggles of the people of Latin America. Alternating between reportage and folklore, he pays tribute to the courage of those who believed in a more human existence.

Jean Baudrillard is one of France's leading modern thinkers and a scholar whose work has necessitated major reassessments across several academic disciplines. This book comprises of his writings on postmodernism.

Open source technology, like OpenOffice, has revolutionised the world of copyright. From downloading music and movies to accessing free software, digital media is forcing us to rethink the very idea of intellectual property. This work explores this debate, offering a suitable introduction for those not versed in the legalistic terminology.

Guattari's engagement with eco-politics and art practices displays his originality as a political thinker and is grounded on his exporation of how subjectivity is produced inlate capitalism. This book explores Guttari's conception of transversal politics in relation to Michel Foucault's sense of the concept and its role in global political theory.

Using the Irangate hearings as the start of a critique of American society, Chomsky accuses America's ruling elite of perpetrating a form of cultural imperialism.

A new edition of this text offering a critique of conventional definitions of the new world order, arguing that it is nothing more than an ingenious piece of historical engineering whereby the pretexts for the Cold War have been deftly replaced by a new set of convenient justifications for a Western agenda that remains largely unchanged.

This text discusses the centrality of popular resistance in relation to culture, history, and social change. It reveals thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East.

Explores the concept of 'global ideology' and how it impacts on conflict, security and development policy-making, explaining why 'the global' is such a damaging construction and exposing the political vacuum at the heart of common perceptions of global politics.

This work looks behind the image and offers a critical investigation of the commercial and political activities of the Bacardi empire. It reveals how Bacardi not only has no connection with Cuba, but has acted against the interests of Cuba, while marketing itself as a Cuban product.

This illusion-shattering piece discusses Aristotle, the US left, postmodernism and everything in between, based on interviews conducted in 1996 and 1997. Includes a list of 160 progressive organizations worth supporting.

Highlighting the dangers of the policy - including the redefinition of sovereignty, and the subsequent erosion of ties linking power and accountability - this work offers a look at state-building that is useful for the students of international affairs. It argues that state-building, as it is conceived, does not work.

Presents the writings of Eqbal Ahmad on imperialism, terrorism and the Middle East. This volume includes a series of themed interviews, specifically formulated to accompany, complement and develop Ahmad's key themes and concerns.

For nearly 2 decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. This title presents a portrait of the total carnage in Iraq as told by Iraqis and other witnesses who experienced it firsthand. Featuring interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Western countries, it offers an account of the Iraqi people's tragedy.

The EU accession process shapes Turkey's future and, in particular, its potential to become a pluralist, democratic state with respect for international human rights. This book details the background of the Kurdish people - the largest minority group in Turkey - and their relationship to the Turkish republic.

In this collection of interviews, Chomsky addresses a variety of topical issues such as: the effect of "family values" crusades on family life; the relationship between free markets and competition; and the possible connections between Islamic fundamentalism, the Nazis and the US.

This text is an introduction to anarchist thought. Written during the Spanish Civil War to explain the ideology that inspired the social revolution in Spain, it is an authoritative account of the early history of international anarchism by one of the movement's leading figures.

This is a distillation of the real motivations behind US foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.

This work covers the history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. It covers themes and controversies characteristic of post World War I anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology and discourse analysis.

For more than half a century Geoffrey Goodman was one of Fleet Street's foremost political and industrial reporters. This book is his record of what it was like to work at the heart of British politics.

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Providing an introduction that covers the history of the region, this book is useful for those interested in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and its place in the history of Middle Eastern affairs.