The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System 1945-2025

Immanuel Wallerstein

Terence K. Hopkins

Business & Money

Pluto Pr Australia

White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural So

Politics & Social Sciences

Hage, Ghassan

Social Sciences

Toxic Communities: Local Struggles from the Environmental Frontline

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

<p>Collection of cartoons, illustrations, sketches and musings by cartoonist Reg Lynch. Themes covered include political satire, history, sport, corruption and observations on the occasional absurdity of modern life and language. Author has been published in 'Sydney Morning Herald', 'Independent Monthly', 'Australian Style', 'HQ' and the 'Bulletin'.</p>

Bulk Reg: A Cartoonist's Collection

Comics & Graphic Novels

Lynch, Reg

Comic Strips

What is the score card for economics at the start of the new millennium? While there are many different schools of economic thought, it is the neo-classical school, with its alleged understanding and simplistic advocacy of the market, that has become equated in the public mind with economics. This book shows that virtually every aspect of conventional neo-classical economics' thinking is intellectually unsound. Steve Keen draws on an impressive array of advanced critical thinking. He constitutes a profound critique of the principle concepts, theories, and methodologies of the mainstream discipline. Keen raises grave doubts about economics' pretensions to established scientific status and its reliability as a guide to understanding the real world of economic life and its policy-making.

Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences

KEEN, Steve

Economics

Can rock n' roll and politics mix? Rock Dogs looks at the impact of government music policies on the Australian music scene, youth culture, and national identity.In the 1980s to early 1990s, rock music in Australia became one of the unlikely targets of the Australian Labor Party's (A.L.P.) cultural policies.Younger A.L.P. politicians and activists were galvanized to create a series of unique initiatives, such as Ausmusic and the Victorian Rock Foundation, which targeted Australian youth through the music industry. The policies, which used techniques adapted from other cultural industries like television and film, were diverse and innovative, but unproven in the music industry. Despite the optimism fueling these cultural policies, various governmental inquiries, increased resistance from major studios, and a growing divide between the needs of the people and the music industry eventually dampened them. Rock Dogs is a candid, observant study of the legacy of these cultural policies and the larger debate over the creation and preservation of a national culture.

Rock Dogs: Politics and the Australian Music Industry

Breen, Marcus

British and Australian Labour parties have historic links. At the turn of the millennium, the electoral success of one has influenced the programme of the other. Scott Andrew argues that the outcome has left both parties running on empty, with no principles and no philosophy.

Running on Empty: Modernising the British and Australian Labour Parties

Scott,Andrew

Legal Theory & Systems

As violence and turmoil continue to define the former Yugoslavia, basic questions remain unanswered: What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, this genocidal activity? Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389. Anzulovic shows how the myth of "Heavenly Serbia" developed to help the Serbs endure foreign domination, explaining their military defeat and the loss of their medieval state by emphasizing their own moral superiority over military victory. Heavenly Serbia shows how this myth resulted in an aggressive nationalist ideology which has triumphed in the late twentieth century and marginalized those Serbs who strive for the establishment of a civil society. "Modern Serbian nationalism...and its contradictory connections...have been sources of considerable scholarly interest...Branimir Anzulovic's compendium is a good example of the genre, made all the more useful by Anzulovic's excellent command of the literature."—Ivo Banac, History of Religions Author interview with CNN: http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/branimir_chat.html

Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide

History

Anzulovic, Branimir

Australia & Oceania

<p>"Heart Politics Revisited" is part autobiography, part manifesto, and it dares to dream about a new politics with people at the center. "Heart Politics Revisited" is a new and expanded edition of the classic 1985 handbook for activists. Peavey's approach shuns carrerism , rigid ideologies, revenge and recrimination--and offers a pathway towards reconciliation and living with difference through empathy, non-violence, co-operation and person-to-person contact. And it has a humor which carries the reader through.</p>

Heart Politics Revisited

Biographies & Memoirs

Peavey, Fran

Leaders & Notable People

The essays in this book deal with the appropriateness of "dirty hands" in politics, the widely held view that politics is a dirty business and those who engage in it can’t help but get their hands dirty—Oliver North's self-defense in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra affair is a good example.    The book explores the meaning of the term and its implications; whether dirty hands is useful as a description of the way public figures actually behave in crisis and whether it is acceptable as a model for guiding ethical and efficacious conduct. Contributing authors present differing appreciations both of the extent to which there are dirty hands in political decision-making and actions, and of the justifiability of such conduct if and when it presents itself.    Defenders of dirty hands make the argument (in various ways) that sometimes cruelty and/or deception are necessary means to achieve a desirable end. The desirable goal may be advancing the greater good or it may mean preventing a considerable evil. On the other hand, there are a variety of strong arguments for rejecting the practice as well as the theoretical justifications of dirty-handed activity. The book presents arguments and analyses pro and con for using normally repugnant methods to advance worthy ends.    The dirty hands problem sets ethicists, political theorists, and social philosophers against one another on empirical, logical, and normative grounds, leaving it to readers to form their own views. However, the debate about dirty hands is also directly relevant to the consideration of ethical problems in a more general sense because its ultimate concern—how to act rightly when moral rules point in contradictory directions—can come to the fore in many circumstances in social life.  Accordingly, several of the essays address broad moral questions beyond the dilemmas faced by political leaders.

Cruelty and Deception: The Controversy over Dirty Hands

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

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