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  Supermarket USA - Food and Power...

  Shane Hamilton

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  This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today. 
   
  Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how their proliferation has shaped our current food system. 
   
  The widespread appeal of supermarkets contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, US food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.

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  Moyers on America - A Journalist...

  Bill Myers

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  The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an “eloquent selection of . . . commentaries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television programs covering topics from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas, he has become one of America’s most trusted journalists. Now Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs—political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today’s politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American experience.   From his early years as a Texas journalist to his role as a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, top assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent and analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television’s groundbreaking series, Moyers has been actively engaged in some of the most volatile episodes of the past fifty years. Drawing from these experiences, he shares his unique understanding of American politics and an enduring faith in the nation’s promise and potential. Whether reflecting on today’s media climate, corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.   “Not only a good reporter . . . a first-rate storyteller.” —The Boston Globe

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  The Little Red Book of Corbyn Jokes

  Jason Sinclair

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  Whichever side of the Labour Party you're on, you could probably use a good laugh right now…
  So rejoice, comrades, for we have the solution. Packed with devastating wit, this priceless compendium has all the finest jokes, scenes and anecdotes to see you through a long, hard political winter.
  The Little Red Book of Corbyn Jokes - putting the 'ha' into the hard left.
  A socialist lion walked into a bar. The barman said, 'What's the big Clause Four?'
  My wife said to me, 'For my anniversary, I want you to get me something expensive,' so I registered her as a supporter of the Labour Party.
  Why did the chicken cross the road? Neoliberalism.

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  Breaking White Supremacy -...

  Gary Dorrien

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  The award–winning author of The New Abolition continues his history of black social gospel with this study of its influence on the Civil Rights movement. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America’s greatest liberation movement.

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  Daring Democracy - Igniting...

  Frances Moore Lappé, Adam Eichen

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  In this time of uncertainty about the future of democracy in America, legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappe and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen expose the well-orchestrated effort that has robbed Americans of their rightful power. But at the heart of this unique book are solutions. Even in this divisive time, Americans are uniting across causes and ideologies to create a canopy of hope the authors call the Democracy Movement. In this invigorating movement of movements, millions of Americans are leaving despair behind as they push for and achieve historic change. The movement and democracy itself are vital to us as citizens and fulfill human needs-for power, meaning, and connection-essential to our thriving. In this timely and necessary book, Lappe and Eichen offer proof that courage is contagious in the daring fight for democracy.

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  The Political Theory of John...

  Johnn Stuart Mill

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  This collection of selected work presents John Stuart Mill as a political theorist. In this seven-book edition you can find out Mill's thoughts on representative government, parliamentary reform and capital punishment. This collection also contains books where Mill discussed some of the current topics of his time such as the relations between England and Ireland, American Civil War and improvements in the administration of India.
  Contents: 
  Considerations on Representative Government
  To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice 
  The Criterion of a Good Form of Government 
  That the Ideally Best Form of Government Is Representative Government 
  Under What Social Conditions Representative Government Is Inapplicable 
  Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies 
  Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government Is Liable 
  Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only 
  Of the Extension of the Suffrage 
  Should There Be Two Stages of Election? 
  Of the Mode of Voting 
  Of the Duration of Parliaments 
  Ought Pledges to Be Required From Members of Parliament? 
  Of a Second Chamber 
  Of the Executive in a Representative Government 
  Of Local Representative Bodies 
  Of Nationality, as Connected With Representative Government 
  Of Federal Representative Governments 
  Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State 
  England and Ireland 
  Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years
  Revenue Administration, & Rights of the Rural Population  
  Judicature and Legislation  
  Improvement of the Country by Public Works  
  Education  
  Miscellaneous Improvements  
  Bengal Survey  
  Survey and Assessment of the North-western Provinces  
  Survey and Assessment of the Bombay Territory  
  Exemption of Lands Improved by the Ryots From Extra Assessment  
  Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 
  The Contest in America 
  Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform 
  A Few Words on Non-intervention

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