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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy, and Social Justice

    Second Edition

    by Shirley R. Steinberg, Pierre W. Orelus ...
    Series Book 458 - Counterpoints
    "On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice is a thoughtful and transformative book that raises crucial questions about the death of democracy and the rise of a unique form of authoritarianism in the United States. Reclaiming the connection between education and social change, it offers its readers an accessible, provocative, and insightful analysis around social justice and the savage ideologies, ... Read more

    $76.94 USD

  • Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy, and Social Justice

    Noam Chomsky’s Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna

    by Pierre W. Orelus, Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 458 - Counterpoints
    Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated ... Read more

    $42.38 USD

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  • Power Systems

    Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    A compelling set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times at the dawn of the twenty-first century with one of the world's foremost thinkers."Sitting down and talking to Noam Chomsky about current affairs has to be one of the most illuminating experiences going. But what if you can't always think of the best questions? Not to worry: David Barsamian's interviews with Chomsky consistently ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher S. Browning ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    A Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles—and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Leadership Imagination

    An Introduction to Taxonomic Leadership Analysis

    by Donald R. LaMagdeleine ...
    Series series New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
    The field of leadership studies needs theory and research techniques that balance conventional science with the arts and humanities in order to capture leadership's moral dimension. Borrowing from Aristotle's account of the three types of knowledge, the author argues that leadership is an in-between form that combines craft-based skill with theoretical knowledge adapted for a specific situation's ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Issues In International Relations

    Edited by Trevor C. Salmon, Mark F. Imber ...
    Students come to study International Relations at university driven by a variety of motives and active concern to study great contemporary issues, such as the causes and persistence of war, threats of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the persistence of global poverty amid globalization’s riches and longer term threats to sustainable development.Building on the success of the first edition, ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Least of All Possible Evils

    Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian interventionThe notion of a humanitarian “lesser evil” has become instrumental in justifying the West’s military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible in conflict. It determines the minimum requirements of survival imposed upon an occupied territory.As Eyal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Manufacturing Phobias

    The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Hisham Ramadan, Jeff Shantz ...
    Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and social policy and advance their own agendas.The contributors to the collection, experts in criminology, ... Read more

    $26.54 USD

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Edited by Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Read more

    $34.37 USD

  • Terror and Territory

    The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary "war on terror" is ... Read more

    $16.19 USD