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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful, and destructive military in the world.Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays and who dies. Over 450,000 copies of the previous editions are in print. This edition is substantially reworked and fully updated including Barack Obama's drone wars, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks, statistics on military spending, and the ongoing costs and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetimeboth published on a slightly larger American press), All We Have Is the Story chronicles the life and workto dateof "Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period." (The Times)Drawingdeeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously politicalphilosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates thecomplexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voiceand grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity andempathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and endswith the story."One of the things the establishment always doesis isolate voices of dissent and make them specificunique if possible.It's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in proseand him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her thereand that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these otherwriters in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribeansuddenlythere's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes somethingdangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relateto and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's amovement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; youcan contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say 'You're onyour own, you're a phenomenon.' I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just apart of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while." JamesKelman from a 1993 interview.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Climate destruction is a problem of political power.We have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon and Shell Abolishing Fossil Fuelsargues that the climate movement has started to turn the tide againstfossil fuels, just too gradually. The movement's partial victories showus how the industry can be further undermined and eventually abolished.Activists have been most successful when they've targeted the industry'senablers: the banks, insurers, and big investors that finance itsoperations, the companies and universities that purchase fossil fuelsand the regulators and judges who make life-and-death rulings aboutpipelines, power plants, and drilling sites. This approach hasjeopardized investor confidence in fossil fuels, leading the industry tolash out in increasingly desperate ways. The fossil fuel industry'sfinancial and legal enablers are also its Achilles heel.The mostpowerful movements in US history succeeded in similar ways. The bookalso includes an in-depth analysis of four classic victories: theabolition of slavery, battles for workers' rights in the 1930s, Blackfreedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, and the fight for clean air.Those movements inflicted costs on economic elites through strikesboycotts, and other mass disruption. They forced some sectors of theruling class to confront others, which paved the way for victory.Electing and pressuring politicians was rarely the movements' primaryfocus. Rather, gains in the electoral and legislative realms wereusually the byproducts of great upsurges in the fields, factories, andstreets.Those historic movements show that it's very possible todefeat capitalist sectors that may seem invulnerable. They also show ushow it can be done. They offer lessons for building a multiracialworking-class climate movement that can win a global green transitionthat's both rapid and equitable.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Disability justice and prison abolition are two increasinglypopular theories that overlap but whose intersection has rarely beenexplored in depth. A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice explainsthe history and theories behind abolition and disability justice in away that is easy to understand for those new to these concepts yet alsogives insights that will be useful to seasoned activists. The book usesextensive research and professional and lived experience to illuminatethe way the State uses disability and its power to disable toincarcerate multiply marginalized disabled people, especially those whoare queer, trans, Black, or Indigenous.Because disabled people are much more likely than nondisabled peopletobe locked up in prisons, jails, and other sites of incarcerationabolitionists, and others critical of carceral systems must incorporate adisability justice perspective into our work. A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice givespersonal and policy examples of how and why disabled people aredisproportionately caught up in the carceral net, and how we can usethis information to work toward prison and police abolition moreeffectively. This book includes practical tools and strategies that willbe useful for anyone who cares about disability justice or abolitionand explains why we can't have one without the other.…