Non Fiction : Politics

The highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth. Award-winning foreign correspondent Eric Campbell has been stoned by fundamentalists, captured by US Special Forces, arrested in Serbia and threatened with expulsion from China. He's negotiated dating rituals in Moscow, shared a house with a charismatic mercenary in Kabul and taken up smoking at gunpoint in Kosovo. In 2003 in Iraq he was injured in a suicide bombing which killed his colleague, cameraman Paul Moran. By turns provocative and thoughtful, ABSURDISTAN is a memoir about juggling life, love and fatherhood while reporting from some of the most dysfunctional places on Earth.

ISBN: 9780732279837
Title: ABSURDISTAN
Author: CAMPBELL, ERIC
Publication date: 13/04/2010
Price: $24.99

"This is the explosive, secret account from the world's most controversial economist of what happened when he took on Europe's entire economic establishment. When the Eurozone collapsed in 2010, Greece faced a 300 billion euro black hole- the largest debt in history. In response, the EU imposed yet more loans on Greece under conditions of crushing austerity, money that flowed straight back to commercial banks in Frankfurt whose greed had caused the crisis. In 2015, their country ravaged by the cuts, the Greek people elected a new government with a mandate to reject the so-called bail-out. The man charged with making their case in Europe was Yanis Varoufakis. What ensued was one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in financial history, ending ultimately in Varoufakis's resignation. But no one actually knows what went on during those negotiations because Eurogroup discussions are held in secret. In this explosive account, Varoufakis reveals all- an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship and backstabbing that exposes the shocking reality of how power is wielded behind the scenes at the EU. It is a document that will shake the economic establishment to its foundations."

ISBN: 9781847924469
Title: ADULTS IN ROOM MY BATTLE WITH EUROPES DEEP ESTABLISHMENT
Author: VAROUFAKIS YANIS
Year: 0617
Publication date: 15/05/2017
Price: $34.99
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE

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ISBN: 9781847924223
Title: AGAINST ELECTIONS
Author: REYBROUCK DAVID VAN
Publication date: 18/07/2016
Price: $27.99
Imprint: BODLEY HEAD RHO

Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured Americas attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as near-Democratic candidate for President, Obamas superb and captivating oratory style has earned him comparisons to John F. Kennedy and even Martin Luther King and on the campaign trail Obama has achieved near rock-star status. Obama speaks on themes of race, identity, community, and above all, his hoped-for vision of a New America. His legions of supporters gravitate towards his unblemished idealism. Still, as David Olive writes, even the most ardent supporters of Barack Obama ... might wonder at times if the mesmerizing orator is more style than substance. Here, interspersed with the entire text of Obamas key speeches, Olive explores the controversies: Obama shedding his American flag lapel pin, Reverend Wright, his antiwar stance, his strong Christian faith, and his often racially charged remarks and the victories: passage for more than 280 bills in his last two years in the Illinois state senate, his actions towards social justice, and his remarkable rise from underdog to potential future president of the United States.

ISBN: 9781550228649
Title: AN AMERICAN STORY SPEECHES OF OBAMA A PRIMER
Author: OLIVE DAVID
Year: 1108
Publication date: 02/11/2008
Format: PAPERBACK
Publishing status: ACTIVE
Price: $24.99
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RRP: $24.99
Imprint: ECW PRESS
Politics & government
Pages: 230

ISBN: 9781441158642
Title: ANATOMY OF FAILURE PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL ACTION
Author: FELTHAM OLIVER
Publication date: 15/04/2013
Price: $39.99
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY AUN

"The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, the emerging rock star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising' (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit u and that we have done nothing so far to fix them. In 2008, the universe of Western finance outgrew planet Earth. When Wall Street imploded, a death embrace between insolvent banks and bankrupt states consumed Europe. Half a dozen national economies imploded and several more came close. But the storm is far from overa From the aftermath of the Second World War to the present, Varoufakis recounts how the eurozone emerged not as route to shared prosperity but as a pyramid scheme of debt with countries such as Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain at its bottom. Its woeful design ensured that collapse would be inevitable and catastrophic. But since the hurricane landed Europe's leaders have chosen a cocktail of more debt and harsh austerity rather than reform, ensuring that the weakest citizens of the weakest nations pay the p

ISBN: 9781847924049
Title: AND THE WEAK SUFFER WHAT THEY MUST EUROPE AUSTERITY THREAT TO GLOBAL STABILITY
Author: VAROUFAKIS YANIS
Publication date: 18/04/2016
Price: $34.99
Imprint: BODLEY HEAD RHO

ISBN: 9780522873061
Title: ANTIFA ANTI FASCIST HANDBOOK
Author: BRAY MARK
Year: 1017
Publication date: 02/10/2017
Price: $24.99
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE

What is the Arab Spring? How did it start? How might it end? What role did Wikileaks play? And where do events leave the oil-dependent west? As American and British jets shower bombs on Libya it is astonishing to think that it all began with a young man who ran a fruit stall. Angry at police brutality, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi, who sold fruit and vegetables streetside in a provincial Tunisian town, set himself on fire in protest at police behaviour. His act of defiance, in the middle of December 2010, sparked a chain of rebellion in Tunisia, which drove the country's dictator from power. That mood spread to Egypt, where an extraordinary standoff between protesters and the longtime autocrat Mubarak gripped the world. And then Libya. The UN declared a no-fly zone, paving the way for a US-led bombardment of Libya u and a global debate, in some quarters uproar, at the sight of another western intervention. Libya's fate is unknown u as to a large extent is Egypt's. Meanwhile the region remains in the balance. In Bahrain, in Yemen, in Syria and beyond, there have been burst of insurgency. Across the wider Middle East, opposition movements are emboldened. Told with the energy and drama of an unfolding story, together with the analysis, argument, insight and eloquence of the Guardian's best writers and contributors, Arab Spring will make compelling reading for anyone who cares about democracy and the future of the new world order.

ISBN: 9780852652541
Title: ARAB SPRING
Author: MANHIRE, TOBY
Publication date: 01/01/2012
Price: $34.95
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE

ISBN: 9780241964590
Title: ARGO
Author: MENDEZ ANTONIO
Publication date: 01/10/2012
Price: $19.99
Imprint: SIMON SCHUSTER