Z Books
Recent Z Books
Girdner: Six Years in Northern Cyprus (Parts IV-VI)
May 25, 2012
Life in Northern Cyprus
Girdner: Shadows of Salamis (Part I)
May 23, 2012
Life in Cyprus
Girdner: Six Years in Northern Cyprus (Parts I-III)
May 22, 2012
Impressions of North Cyprus
Dabashi: The Arab Spring
May 10, 2012
A pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring that will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.
Leech: Capitalism
Apr 26, 2012
The nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.
Lavalette: Life in the West Bank
Apr 01, 2012
Over 60% of the Palestinians living in the West Bank are under 20 years old. It is from their experiences and stories that this book explores this extraordinarily besieged society and the Palestinians' enduring resistance to a ruthless occupation.
Lavalette: Life in the West Bank
Apr 01, 2012
Over 60% of the Palestinians living in the West Bank are under 20 years old. It is from their experiences and stories that this book explores this extraordinarily besieged society and the Palestinians' enduring resistance to a ruthless occupation.
ricketts: The Activists Handbook
Mar 08, 2012
'The Activists' Handbook' is a powerful guide to grassroots activism. A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond. Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to effectively promote their cause. Lots of ready-to-use documents and comprehensive information on digital activism and group strategy make this book an essential companion for any campaign. Including case studies from the US, UK, Canada and Australia, this is the ultimate guidebook to participatory democracy.
Hughes: Dialogues and Reflections of Indigenous Activism
Feb 10, 2012
Provocative and original, The Politics of Indigeneity explores the concept of indigeneity across the world - from the Americas to New Zealand, Africa to Asia - and the ways in which it intersects with local, national and international social and political realities. Taking on the role of critical interlocutors, the authors engage in extended dialogue with indigenous spokespersons and activists, as well as between each other. In doing so, they explore the possibilities of a 'second-wave indigeneity' - one that is alert to the challenges posed to indigenous aspirations by the neo-liberal agenda of nation-states and their concerns with sovereignty. Timely and topical in its focus on global indigenous politics, and featuring a variety of first-hand indigenous voices - including those of indigenous activists, scholars, leaders and interviewees - this is a vital contribution to an often contentious topic.
Parenti: Tropic of Chaos
Feb 02, 2012
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism"--a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Dawson: Consumer Trap
Jan 28, 2012
Why the much-advertised American way of life continues to grow more socially, economically, and environmentally costly and less citizen-friendly -- and what we should do about it.
Morgan: Mass Media and the Mythical "Sixties"
Jan 27, 2012
The book provides systematic documentation of the way mass media covered social movements of the 1960s era, how that coverage influenced the trajectory of the 60s and produced the images, texts, personalities and framing that were heavily used by both the (rightist and corporate) forces of backlash and the forces of commercial exploitation by entertainment and consumption media, thus facilitating the turn to the neo-liberal world we live in today --with its erosive and manipulative political discourse.
Burns: The Vanishing Individual:
Jan 16, 2012
Confronted with such an impregnable, all powerful, all devouring System, individuals have no choice but to take evasive measures. And if they choose some version of parasitic anarchism they can, Burns maintains, find all kinds of encouragement and help in books -- more particularly in the great novels of the past and near past.
SteveEconomicsKeen: Debunk time
Nov 28, 2011
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Mcchesney: The Political Economy of Media
Nov 08, 2011
More than any other work, The Political Economy of Media demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence. Among the most acclaimed communication scholars in the world, Robert W. McChesney has brought together all the major themes of his two decades of research. Rich in detail, evidence, and thoughtful arguments, The Political Economy of Media provides a comprehensive critique of the degradation of journalism, the hyper-commercialization of culture, the Internet, and the emergence of the contemporary media reform movement. The Political Economy of Media is mandatory reading for anyone wishing to understand and change media, and the political economy, in the world today. As Chomsky is to linguistics, Ben & Jerry’s to ice cream, and Elvis to shaking one’s hips, McChesney is to media analysis. He is the King: there is no one more definitive. —Danny Schechter, founder of MediaChannel.org McChesney’s work has been of extraordinary importance. It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights. —Noam Chomsky Robert McChesney follows in the great tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, I.F. Stone, and Ben Bagdikian in exposing the ruthless hold of corporate power on the nations media. —Howard Zinn As with all his prior works, this new volume demonstrates McChesney’s signal strengths as America’s leading critic and historian of the media: unrivaled erudition across several disciplines; a bracing theoretical lucidity; and – not least – a blunt and lively style, enlivened by a killer sense of humor. This book, in short, is a must-read not just for all admirers of McChesney’s work, but for everyone concerned about the global sway of the commercial media, and keen to put a stop to it at last. —Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at NYU Author of Fooled Again Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Communication Revolution, The Problem of the Media, and Rich Media, Poor Democracy.
Girdner: USA and the New Middle East
Oct 24, 2011
US Imperialism, The Neocons and the Iraq War
Girdner: The Israel Lobby
Oct 23, 2011
Details the organizations in the United States, particularly AIPAC, which have been able to control US Foreign Policy toward Israel and limit political criticism of Israel in the US. Argues that such blind support of Isreal is not in the US national security interest.
Girdner: The Endless War
Oct 23, 2011
An Account of how the War in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster
Girdner: Perilous Passage
Oct 23, 2011
A History of the Emergence of European and American Imperialism from the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
