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  • Getting Through Security

    Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern

    Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the “secret colleges” of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not arrive quickly enough to save everyone. Based on extensive interviews with both special forces and other security operators who seek to protect the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Out of Crisis

    Rethinking Our Financial Markets

    Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current financial crisis obliges us to rethink the relationships among "financial markets" and "governments." In Out of Crisis financial analyst David Westbrook illuminates the intellectual, business, and policy ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Between Citizen and State

    An Introduction to the Corporation

    Between Citizen and State is an intrepid and readable introduction to, and insightful commentary on, the role of the corporation in the modern world. Corporate actors have typical motivations, opportunities, temptations - they are characters, and their interactions follow familiar plotlines. Part I, Background, introduces the characters and their context. Part II, Internal Struggles, explains ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Deploying Ourselves

    Islamist Violence, Globalization, and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force

    In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national security establishment is outdated and entrenched in a model of defence more befitting the post-World War II Cold War era than today's realities. In a world without military peers, Westbrook argues, the US must re-create its institutions in order to wield influence ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • City of Gold

    An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

    David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Thought From the Ruins

    Quixote’s Dinner Party

    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the North Atlantic, asking how are we to live as intellectuals, individually and in community?Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party is the product of informal discussion and academic work done over the last two decades among an ... Read more

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    Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, "Mutual" Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes

    by John C. Bogle ...
    Praise for Don't Count On It!"This collection of Jack Bogle's writings couldn't be more timely. The clarity of his thinking—and his insistence on the relevance of ethical standards—are totally relevant as we strive to rebuild a broken financial system. For too many years, his strong voice has been lost amid the cacophony of competing self-interests, misdirected complexity, and unbounded greed. ... Read more

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  • Unspeak

    How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

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    "A sharply articulated, well-documented expos of the political and economic manipulation of language . . . Fans of Orwell, take heart."— Kirkus ReviewsWhat do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many ... Read more

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  • The Money Problem

    Rethinking Financial Regulation

    by Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... Read more

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  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Our Wound is Not So Recent

    Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November

    by Alain Badiou ...
    On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of Islamic ... Read more

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  • Violent Geographies

    Fear, Terror, and Political Violence

    Edited by Derek Gregory, Allan Pred ...
    "Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required."—John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA"Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but ... Read more

    $81.99 USD