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  • Cover image of book The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
    The New Rulers of the World - by John Pilger

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782115 | ISBN 10: 1784782114

    Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations.   John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative jour ... more

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  • Cover image of book Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror by Christine Delphy, translated by David Broder
    Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror - by Christine Delphy, translated by David Broder

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688809 | ISBN 10: 178168880x

    An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures.  Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irregular Army by Matt Kennard
    Irregular Army - by Matt Kennard

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781685631 | ISBN 10: 1781685630

    Reveals the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to extremists in its ranks.  Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani
    The Muslims are Coming! - by Arun Kundnani

    £20.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685587 | ISBN 10: 1781685584

    The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
    The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror - by Arun Kundnani

    £14.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781681596 | ISBN 10: 1781681597

    Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles at him from a few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded the building on that October morning, the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation that had in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror by Victoria Brittain
    Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror - by Victoria Brittain

    £17.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745333267 | ISBN 10: 0745333265

    Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made soc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soldier Box: Why I Won
    Soldier Box: Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror - by Joe Glenton

    £12.99   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680926 | ISBN 10: 1781680922

    A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan.   When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Submission by Amy Waldman
    The Submission - by Amy Waldman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099528241 | ISBN 10: 009952824x

    Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath.  A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the enve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Performance in a Time of Terror: Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty by Jenny Hughes
    Performance in a Time of Terror: Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty - by Jenny Hughes

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780719085307 | ISBN 10: 0719085306

    Performance in a Time of Terror offers a thought-provoking investigation of the way performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, as both a tactic of violence and a strategy of resistance.   The book focuses on an ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of the World Since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfeild
    A History of the World Since 9/11 - by Dominic Streatfeild

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547617 | ISBN 10: 1843547619

    From Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted author Dominic Streatfeild comes a brilliantly original and stunningly readable work of investigative history which paints an revealing picture of the world since the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Essential ... more

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  • Cover image of book Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise by Christina Hellmich
    Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise - by Christina Hellmich

    £15.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848139084 | ISBN 10: 184813908x

    Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and international security. Yet in spite of the attention it re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 by Syed Saleem Shahzad
    Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 - by Syed Saleem Shahzad

    £22.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331010 | ISBN 10: 0745331017

    President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the mos ... more

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  • Cover image of book After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers About the World, the U.S. and Themselves by Tobias Endler
    After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers About the World, the U.S. and Themselves - by Tobias Endler

    £17.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9783866493643 | ISBN 10: 3866493649

    After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America's leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their ... more

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  • Cover image of book 9-11 (10th Anniversary edition) by Noam Chomsky
    9-11 (10th Anniversary edition) - by Noam Chomsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609803438 | ISBN 10: 1609803434

    For Chomsky, the atrocities of 9-11 are something quite new in world affairs, marking the first time since 1812 that the U.S. mainland was attacked (an important distinction from Pearl Harbor, which was U.S. territory, but effectively a colony). As C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad Have Changed the English Language by Fred Halliday
    Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad Have Changed the English Language - by Fred Halliday

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848850316 | ISBN 10: 184885031x

    Far more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield.  In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes u ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror by Henry A. Giroux
    Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror - by Henry A. Giroux

    £21.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781594518263 | ISBN 10: 1594518262

    The United States embarked on a war on terror that defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty. As torture became normalized in the Bush era, it not only corrupted American ideals and political ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ricin! The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was by Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon
    Ricin! The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was - by Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon

    £21.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745329277 | ISBN 10: 0745329276

    In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poiso ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death
    Death's Door: Ignorance Likes Company - by Written and illustrated by Jag Lall

    £11.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905108787 | ISBN 10: 1905108788

    Based upon the fears of society comes a hard hitting story of how ignorance and perceptions can destroy lives in a world which desperately yearns for peace.  Officially supported by the United Nations Association of Canada. "I think ever ... more

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  • Cover image of book America
    America's Backyard: The United States & Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror - by Grace Livingstone

    £26.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848132146 | ISBN 10: 184813214x

    The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America’s Backyard tells the story of that intervention.  Using newly-declassified documents, Grace ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz
    Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo - by Murat Kurnaz

    £13.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780230614413 | ISBN 10: 0230614418

    In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism by Edited by Robin L.Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt
    Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism - by Edited by Robin L.Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt

    £24.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848130197 | ISBN 10: 1848130198

    Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have br ... more

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  • Cover image of book Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War by Dennis Perrin
    Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War - by Dennis Perrin

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672653 | ISBN 10: 1844672654

    Americans see the Deomcratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flipfloppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restrained, measured wagers of war as "last resort." In November 2006, voters put the Democrats into Congress to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim it by Daniel Hind
    The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim it - by Daniel Hind

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672530 | ISBN 10: 1844672530

    "A profound and much-needed contribution... In the spirit of Enlightenment thinkers, he both reveals the contradictions and hypocrisies of contemporary politcs, and also points a way forward..."(Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation) "Since Septem ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto by Zahid Hussain
    Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto - by Zahid Hussain

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845118020 | ISBN 10: 1845118022

    Pakistan has been home to the world's most dangerous terrorists. Osama Bin Laden himself is believed to be hiding close to its border. After 9/11, Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, took an astonishing about-turn, and pledged his s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 by David Friend
    Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 - by David Friend

    £16.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845115456 | ISBN 10: 1845115457

    Watching the World Change is a unique and powerfully affecting account of the most universally observed news event in human history: the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.   David Friend tells the stories beh ... more

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  • Cover image of book War with No End by Berger, Klein, Kureishi, Mieville, Roy, Soueif, Sacco and Zangana
    War with No End - by Berger, Klein, Kureishi, Mieville, Roy, Soueif, Sacco and Zangana

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844671847 | ISBN 10: 1844671844

    This title is published on the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of the 'War on Terror', John Berger, Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco and others examine the consequences. On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Af ... more

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  • Cover image of book Street Art and the War on Terror: How the world
    Street Art and the War on Terror: How the world's best graffiti artists said no to the Iraq war - by Xavier A. Tapies

    £24.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780955339882 | ISBN 10: 095533988x

    When Bush and Blair ignored opposition from their electorates, and the UN, and launched the War on Iraq, they wrapped it up as a "War on Terror" in an attempt to conflate the attacks on the World Trade Centre in NYC and Saddam Hussein's non-existent ... more

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  • Cover image of book 9.11: The New Evidence by Ian Henshall
    9.11: The New Evidence - by Ian Henshall

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845295141 | ISBN 10: 1845295145

    The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and co ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger
    What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles - by Eliot Weinberger

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844670840 | ISBN 10: 1844670848

    With wit and anger, the author of the blackly comic What I Heard About Iraq takes us through the administration of the 'Bush junta'.  Eliot Weinberger begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush and the actions and policies that presaged an invasi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Uzbekistan and the United States: Authoritarianism, Islamism and Washington
    Uzbekistan and the United States: Authoritarianism, Islamism and Washington's Security Agenda - by Shahram Akbarzadeh

    £31.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781842774236 | ISBN 10: 1842774239

    Uzbekistan, the most strategically situated Central Asian country, has exhibited the most appalling record on human rights and democratic reforms. Yet, post - September 11, a transformation in US policy has suddenly taken place. US troops are now sta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
    Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden - by Steve Coll

    £18.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141020808 | ISBN 10: 0141020806

    Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government file ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
    Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - by Michael C. Ruppert

    £21.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780865715400 | ISBN 10: 0865715408

    The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects - finding some of then in the highest echelons of American government - by sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World by Noam Chomsky
    Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World - by Noam Chomsky

    £21.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780745319803 | ISBN 10: 0745319807

    This new, fully updated edition of Chomsky's dissection of terrorism explores the role of the US in the Middle East and reveals how the media are used to manipulate public opinion about what constitutes 'terrorism'. With several new chapters as well ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent by Phil Scraton (editor)
    Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent - by Phil Scraton (editor)

    £22.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780745319629 | ISBN 10: 0745319629

    The unprecedented and tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on world politics. Civilian deaths in horrific circumstances triggered an uncompromising response from the US administration and its allies: an open- ... more

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