books by Verso     books:       Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Haymarket Series)9 reviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Verso, 1997 The shaping of an activist. This book was my introduction to Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. I read it before I learned more about her and her career as an activist for the past 40 years. She reflects on her life from birth until her move to California. She grew up in rural Oklahoma during some of the worst years ever. These were the years that shaped her, the launching pad of her feminist, anti-family, pro-socialist, anti-war, ...             Water, Inc.8 reviews Varda Burstyn Verso, 2005 "Canada has water! Let's get it!" This threat to a continental resource has been eyed by the United States for many years. The NAFTA arrangement opened every resource to outside control through its Chapter 11 terms. If interested parties could once gain permission to extract the resource, then the demand and profit would be the only limitations. And demand for water in the USA is rising beyond calculation. In this racing ...             An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King12 reviews William F. Pepper Verso, 2003 Absolutely compelling reading This book is written by an English lawyer, who comes to these events with an analytical eye. He compiles evidence, and draws conclusions based on the evidence. The resulting portrait is not flattering to the US government. The evidence he cites points to apparantly rogue elements of the FBI and intelligence services actively involved in plotting and cover-up of the assasination attempt. This book ...             The Stone Woman7 reviews Tariq Ali Verso, 2000 Seductively Enchanting A friend recommended this book, and i am so pleased that she did. What a novel i am absolutely swayed by it. Stone Woman my first of Tariq Ali, but certainly not the last. I read with initial resistance, but was lured to it from the first page. Mystically he draws the attention with the words which encapsulates the reader as a silent observer witnessing the developments in the palace of Pasha. ...             Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas10 reviews Odette Larson Verso, 2001 Flying Sparks A truely compelling story of survival and the reality of being a young girl alone and unprotected in an era we thought was a time of "innocence". Ms. Larson has unflinchingly shared her life experiences with honesty and without self-pity. Her courage is an inspiration. Her prose is as pure and honest as the desert. I could not put Flying Sparks down. I eagerly look forward to her next book.             A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled (Haymarket)9 reviews Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace Verso, 1999 How public policies can destroy communities This book gives a thorough analysis on how public policies were the catalysts for the socioeconomic destruction of low-income communities of color in New York City. Necessary reading for those who still do not realize that activism and organizing are important vehicles through which marginalized communities keep in check the forces that seek to further fragment and disenfranchise them.             The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)5 reviews Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin Verso, 1997 A readable treatment of the spread of books and its affects Febvre and Martin's, The Coming of the Book, is a scholarly work without the dry academic tone of a textbook. Having said that, this isn't a casual read, as the authors will provide some of the details of edition sizes, costs, and distribution. The authors themselves give the reason for the present work, "...we hope to establish how and why the printed book was something more than a triumph of ...             A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West7 reviews Noam Chomsky Verso, 2001 Never more relevant! Chomsky uses the NATO bombing of Milosevic as a framework for analyzing the direction of Western foreign policy, specifically in East Timor. While NATO (remember, not UN) forces were destroying non-military targets and infrastructure in the name of a "just cause", US sponsored paramilitaries were rampaging through E Timor slaughtering thousands. It is the awareness of this hypocrisy (as well as ...             The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (No-Nonsense Guides)4 reviews Maggie Black Verso, 2002 "According to statistics she does not work!" "ACCORDING TO STATISTICS SHE DOES NOT WORK!" That is the caption below a poster with a photograph of an African woman, lugging an enormous bunch of tree branches for firewood on her head, endlessly trailing through the Sahelian bush. The poster is published by what is probably the smallest and, typically, least publicized of all United Nations bodies, INSTRAW, the UN Institute for Research and ...             The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-18004 reviews Robin Blackburn Verso, 1998 thorough and objective analysis of slavery in the new world This is a long book, but well worth the time dedicated to reading it, especially if one is interested in understanding the real causes behind the adoption of mass slavery by Christian Nations as a basis for the economic development of the Americas. Mr. Blackburn is writing about an emotionally charged issue but never falls into the trap of emotion and sentiment. Quite the contrary: in the best ...             The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-19405 reviews Isaac Deutscher Verso, 2003 Brian Wayne Wells, Esquire, reviews "The Prophet Outcast" This is the final volume of Isaac Deutscher's famous three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky, the great Russian revolutionary. Deutscher's biography is the standard biography of Trotsky by which all other biographies of Trosky are measured. Picking up the life of Trotsky from the time of his first exile from the Soviet Union in 1929, this book carries the story of the later portion of ...             Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx"4 reviews Verso, 1999 Derrida never claimed to be a Marxist,-what's the fuss? Fred Engels said once that each generation of philosophers try arduously to soar higher in the sky than the previous, and here although one can see the value in the Left engaging with such a formidable thinker as Derrida, I would think the Left had better things to do,like the set of probelmatics concerning the globalization/exploitation of international labour,the eroding of the democratic ...             The Philosophy of Marx4 reviews Etienne Balibar Verso, 1995 Invaluably lucid Verso's decision to republish this book should be lauded. For the better part of a decade in the late '90s and '00s they allowed it to languish in out-of-print obscurity; it deserved a better fate, as this is a very useful classroom text. This is simply the best introduction available to the issues and texts of Marxism for the contemporary student of continental philosophy or "theory." ...             The Soviet Century5 reviews Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott Verso, 2005 Focuses on the key features of the Soviet Union For those already familiar with the history of the USSR, Moshe Lewin's "The Soviet Century" is a very exciting book. Instead of offering a comprehensive overview of Soviet history, Lewin focuses on the aspects of the country and its system that have been neglected by previous scholarship. Amazingly, he identifies these phenomena as central to actually understanding the Soviet Union, and blames ...              search for books 1450-1800, 1492-1800, 1929-1940, baroque, burned, century, classics, crumbled, demarcations, derrida, development, execution, generation, ghostly, growing, haymarket, international, jacques, national, no-nonsense, nonsense, outcast, philosophy, printing, prophet, slavery, specters, standards, symposium, trotsky books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen toys & games: Crayola Color Wonder Disney Fairies Coloring Book and Markers home  impressum - about us