Mad, Bad, and Sad
A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
Lisa Appignanesi
This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to our own century when the official psychiatric manual lists some 350 mental disorders. Women play a key role here, both as patients-among them Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Marilyn Monroe-and as therapists. Controversially, Appignanesi argues that women have significantly changed the nature of mind-doctoring, but in the process they have also inadvertently highlighted new patterns of illness.

27 de septiembre
de Esmeralda Berbel
En 1935 el escritor ruso Máximo Gorki desea que escritores de todo el mundo narren con la mayor precisión posible un día de su vida. El día que elige es el 27 de septiembre de aquel año. Veinticinco años después, el periódico moscovita Izvestia continúa la tradición, y la escritora alemana Christa Wolf se entusiasma con la idea y escribe su 27 de septiembre durante 40 años dando origen al libro Un día del año. En la primavera de 2008 leo el libro y quiero continuar el deseo de escribir un día del año. Así nace el libro 27 de septiembre. Un día en la vida de las mujeres, y de él surge el comentario que ya imaginaba: ¿y ellos?, ¿qué dicen ellos? Aquí está el de hombres.

No se lo cuentes a nadie
Narrativa (demipage)
Cristina Peri Rossi (Autor), Diana Patricia Decker (Autor), Liliana Heker (Autor), Elena Bossi (Autor), Isabel Núñez (Autor), Elena Vilallonga (Autor), Esmeralda Berbel (Autor), Lydia Zimmermann (Autor), Alejandra Costamagna (Autor), Andrea Palet (Autor)

The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.

Our Idiot Brother
Ned Rochlin looks for the good in every situation and in everyone, which often puts him at odds with the world around him -- especially his family. Upon being released from jail for a stupid mistake, Ned is kicked off of the organic farm he lives and works on by his ex-girlfriend Janet who also more »insists on keeping his beloved dog, Willie Nelson. Having nowhere else to go, he turns to his family, three ambitious sisters and an overbearing mother. Ned crashes at each of their homes, in succession, and brings honesty, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives. In other words, he wreaks havoc.

Harvest of Empire
A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez - Author
Within the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The new immigrants have ignited a vibrant "Latin explosion" in popular culture and deeply affected American society.
Spanning 500 years--from the first New World colonies to our nation's nineteenth-century westward expansion, from the days of gunboat diplomacy to the turn of the millennium--Harvest of Empire features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland. In addition, it gives a fascinating look at how these Latino pioneers have transformed the cultural landscape of the United States.

LA RIBERA.
ENRIQUE WERNICKE.
EDICIONES ATRIL, BUENOS AIRES, 1998.

Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the painstaking labor that results in two hours of screen magic.

Planes para mañana
Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die. PLANS FOR TOMORROW comprises an urban portrait of daily life, an extraordinary moment when the characters find they are able to remake their lives.

Julio Cortázar, una biografía revisada
Miguel Herráez
Una obra de divulgación de uno de los escritores más influyentes en lengua castellana del siglo XX. En ella se recoge infinidad de datos acerca de la vida de Cortázar, desde Buenos Aires a París, a partir de un conocimiento completo de su obra. De carácter ameno, el lector descubrirá a la vez, de manera precisa y sorprendente, a la persona y al escritor. Cuenta, además, con un prólogo del escritor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez, amigo personal de Cortázar.

Sudeste
Haroldo Conti

Free Lunch
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill)
David Cay Johnston - Author
Free Lunch answers the great mystery of our time: How did our strong and growing economy give way to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and fear for millions of Americans? Acclaimed reporter David Cay Johnston reveals how government policies and spending have reached deep into the wallets of the many to benefit the top 1% of the wealthiest.

Waging Nonviolent Struggle:
20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
Gene Sharp
This groundbreaking new work builds on 50 years of Gene Sharp’s definitive academic research and practical experience aiding nonviolent struggles around the world. Recently, advocates have applied these methods and strategies with great success in Serbia and Ukraine. In his most recent work, Dr. Sharp shows how to strategically plan nonviolent struggle and make it more effective.

INSIDE JOB
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End In Sight"), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Prophets of War
Lockheed Martin and the Making of the
Military Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a single company could accumulate the kind of power and influence that is now wielded by Lockheed Martin. As a full-service weapons maker, Lockheed Martin receives over $29 billion a year in Pentagon contracts, or roughly one out of every ten dollars the Department of Defense doles out to private contractors. Prophets of War recounts the fascinating and often-frightening history of America's largest military contractor as well as its role in the formation of foreign policy.

JANUARY 27
Don't Mourn, Organize

Celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) by organizing a community screening of The People Speak documentary or hosting a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States on or near the anniversary of his passing, January 27.

To read more about organizing a community screening of The People Speak documentary, visit
http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/

To read more about hosting a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States, visit
http://www.peopleshistory.us/

The People Speak
45 Main Street
Suite 547
Brooklyn, New York 11201-1099

Cairo Time
Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story about a woman. It began when Syrian-Canadian writer/director Ruba Nadda first visited Cairo with her family many years ago. Returning a decade ago with one of her sisters, (and no longer under the protective eye of her father) they had memorable adventures. "The city was beautiful and the people were beautiful," Nadda recalled.

Empty Without You
The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt
And Lorena Hickok
by Rodger Streitmatter
In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me"), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women's relationship. Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters—published here for the first time—and put them within the context of the lives of these two extraordinary women, allowing us to understand the role of this remarkable friendship in Roosevelt's transformation into a crusading First Lady.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool
Sept. 9, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011
Asia Society Museum, New York
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations. As one of the leading artists of Japan's influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara's cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. His popular appeal masks the serious social and personal dimensions of his work—feelings of helplessness and rage, and a sense of isolation in a hyper-networked society.

THE SECRET LIVES OF STIFFS:
Photographs by Anne Fishbein
October 21 - November 23, 2010
Opening reception Saturday, October 23, 6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
Fishbein looks at how mannequins can become mirrors for us: "Mannequins can be headless or missing a limb, but we humans are undiscouraged by these limitations. At times, we walk past these working stiffs without a second glance–their presence is so familiar that we don't question their odd existence. But sometimes a mannequin's outstretched hand, its fingertips seemingly reaching for some kind of connection, give us pause. We search for signs of humanity behind their blank-vessel expressions."

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.

The Great American Stickup
Robert Scheer
In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story—the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms—Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.

From the Outside Looking in:
Experiences in 'Barefoot Economics'
Manfred A. Max-Neef

To the End of the Land
David Grossman
From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war.

Love Lessons:
Selected Poems of Alda Merini
Translated by Susan Stewart
Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive selection of Merini's poetry to appear in English. Complete with the original Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes, this collection gathers lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms that span fifty years, from Merini's first books of the 1950s to an unpublished poem from 2001.

What He's Poised to Do
Stories
By Ben Greenman
From a portrait of an unfaithful man contemplating his own free will to the saga of a young Cuban man's quixotic devotion to a woman he may never have met; and from a nineteenth-century weapons inventor's letter to his young daughter to an aging man's wistful memory of a summer love affair in a law office—each of these stories demonstrates Greenman's maturity as a chronicler of romantic angst both contemporary and timeless, and as an explorer of the ways our yearning for connection informs our selves and our souls.

Rodeo for the Sheepish
Ellyn Maybe is an irresistible force. To read or listen to her poetry is to be gently and completely crushed while simultaneously inspired and charmed. The honesty with which she so exquisitely reveals her vulnerabilities, desires and pain is beautiful and rare.

Einstein on Israel and Zionism
By Fred Jerome
Einstein on Israel and Zionism focuses on correcting a widely accepted story – that Einstein was a major supporter, a “champion” of the state of Israel – a story told and retold primarily by the mainstream media.
While Einstein was a secular Jew and a Cultural Zionist – he supported the establishment of Jewish cultural centers within Palestine and elsewhere – he opposed the establishment of a Jewish state with borders and an army, and he never wavered from arguing forcefully for equal rights and equal power for the Arabs whom he called “kinfolk” of the Jews.

Tattoos on the Heart
The Power of Boundless Compassion
By Gregory Boyle
How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life.
As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration.

TOPANGA PEACE ALLIANCE MAY FILM NIGHT:
Disappointment Valley. . . A Modern Day Western
Friday, May 7, potluck 7:45 p.m., screening 8:00 p.m.
Yoga Desa in Pine Tree Center, 120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga, CA 90290.
Anaquad-Kleinert's documentary examines the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) controversial policies on public lands, while investigating the elimination of America's wild horses and burros.

Sin Patrón:
Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories
Edited by the lavaca collective
Foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
This is the inside story of Argentina’s remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves. In 2001, the economy of Argentina collapsed. Unemployment reached a quarter of the workforce. Out of these terrible conditions was born a new movement of workers who decided to take matters into their own hands.

The Bending Cross
A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
By Ray Ginger
Introduction by Mike Davis
Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.—Eugene Debs in 1918
This moving biography presents the definitive story of the life and legacy of the most eloquent spokesperson and leader of the US labor and socialist movements. With a new introduction by Mike Davis.

THE EMPIRE
a new play by D C Moore
Until Sat May 8, Jerwood Theare Upstairs Royal Court Theatre
Gary, a British soldier in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, comes from a military family. He's working in training and liaison with the Afghan National Army, he's learning to speak the local language, Dari, and doing his best to be even-handed. But with daily life back in the UK and in this blistering, bewildering foreign land riven by race, class and religion, he sums up Britain's history of foreign occupation in the baldest and bitterest of terms: 'Thick cunts, led by posh cunts, hitting brown cunts. Way it is. Even now.'

Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.”

Eric White, Nicola Verlato, Fulvio Di Piazza
Three-Handed
Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
April 10, 2010 through May 8, 2010
NEW YORK, NY (March 19, 2010) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce Three-Handed, a three-person exhibition of new large-scale paintings by New York based artists Eric White and Nicola Verlato, along with Palermo-based artist Fulvio Di Piazza. Showing together for the first time at the gallery, these three skilled painters take a realist approach towards fantasy subject matter.

Freud: A Life for Our Time
Peter Gay
A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life.

A Most Dangerous Method
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr
In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be a momentous collaboration and deep friendship. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood Sabina Spierlrein, who had had relations with both men before becoming an innovative psychoanalyst herself. This is the mesmerizing book which reconstructs the fatal triangle which encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail.

The Secret Artist
A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud
Lesley Chamberlain
Widely acclaimed for giving “an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche’s personal experience and his most famous ideas” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art itself.

Big Coal
The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Jeff Goodell
Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengence. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for energy independence. Is coal the solution to America's energy problems?

Teatro, Buenos Aires: Por tu padre
Un joven en sus treinta años largos, confronta en el funeral de un familiar, al socio comercial de su padre y a su padre mismo, en un crispado diálogo en medio de situaciones donde la emoción y soledad tejen una trama que se asemeja a un ajuste de cuentas.

War and Civil Disobedience (Compact Disc)
by Howard Zinn
Released: March 2010
What are citizens to do when confronted by unjust laws and when their government embroils them in unjust wars?
Delivered in the context of the current US war in Iraq, this is a scintillating lecture and discussion by the legendary teacher, historian, playwright, and activist. The efforts of Zinn to recover and pass on stories of civil disobedience to the unjust wars of US history offers models, ideas, and inspirations for how and why we might go about challenging and changing the structures of power.

Green Zone
Directed by Paul Greengrass
In 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of inspectors are on a mission to find Iraq's reported stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Traveling from one dangerous site to the other, Miller and his team fail to find any chemical agents or other weapons. Instead, they discover an elaborate cover-up in which the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

The Pen and the Sword
Conversations with Edward Said
Gathered here are five wide-ranging interviews with the internationally renowned Palestinian scholar and critic Edward Said (1935–2003). In conversation with David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio, these interviews cover a broad range of topics, from Said's groundbreaking work of literary scholarship, Orientalism, to music and popular culture. These conversations span the years 1987–94, a pivotal era in the Palestinian liberation movement during which Said testifies with stunning insight and eloquence to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and the betrayals of the PLO leadership.

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Directed by Jack Clayton
The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself with an unfaithful husband (her third husband) and pregnant with her seventh child, unsure of where life is taking her. It stars Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch and James Mason with Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Maggie Smith, Eric Porter, Alan Webb and Yootha Joyce. 

JUST BECAUSE IT ISNT WRONG DOESNT MAKE IT RIGHT
Barbara Coloroso - Author
In her now-classic kids are worth it!, Barbara Coloroso offered solid advice and practical parenting techniques that above all preserved the dignity of both parent and child. Coloroso's underlying parenting vision ascribes to parents the responsibility to teach the next generation how to think, not just what to think, so that they may grow into the best people they can be.
Now, in this groundbreaking new book—a natural extension and a profound deepening of her original vision—Coloroso shows parents how to nurture their children's ethical lives, from preschool through adolescence.
There can be no more necessary book for our times.

Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore
With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal... and 14,000 jobs being lost every day.

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$20, ISBN: 978-1-60846-024-3, 230 pages
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. Examining the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, this series of essays looks closely at how religious bigotry and cultural nationalism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world’s largest democracy.

The New American Century
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. This film shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War. This film shows the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan. . . .

THE WILL TO RESIST
DAHR JAMAIL, author of Beyond the Green Zone, brings us inside the movement of military resistance to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2006, a majority in the United States have opposed the continued occupation of Iraq, and increasing skepticism surrounds the escalation in Afghanistan. But how do the soldiers who carry out the American occupations see their missions?

Food, Inc.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

John Doe and The Sadies
"Country Club is the result of a drunken promise or threat I made to Travis & Dallas (Good, of The Sadies) the first night we played together in Toronto. These happen all the time but it's rare that anyone remembers them the morning after, let alone follows through and makes it a reality. I'm really glad we did," chuckles X, Knitters and solo artist John Doe about the series of events that led to his new project with cosmic roots rockers The Sadies.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Duty of Genius
Ray Monk
"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one."—The Christian Science Monitor.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. But why is it denied, and by whom?

Seeds of Terror
How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
Gretchen Peters
Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Why is it eight years after we invaded Afghanistan, the CIA says that these groups are better armed and better funded than ever?

Long Time Passing
Mothers Speak about War and Terror
Author Susan Galleymore, the mother of a U.S. soldier made international headlines by taking the extraordinary and even dangerous step of traveling to Iraq to visit her son stationed on a military base in the so-called Sunni Triangle, north of Baghdad. What she found in Iraq – the horrors of war which was at once heartbreaking and compelling - challenged her to continue her journey interviewing mothers in war zones including Iraq, Israel and the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan and the US.

Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
by Joe Allen, foreword by John Pilger
In this timely study, Joe Allen examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with the eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today’s antiwar movement.

Uncommon Sense
Howard Zinn
Why Howard Zinn has become one of the most important and influential American historians is perhaps nowhere more evident than in this new book. Few social critics have been as inspiring as the ever-hopeful Zinn and, unlike many historians, Zinn turns historical details toward deeper observations on the universal truths and struggles of humankind.

Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy
by Marina Hyde
We stand at the beginning of a bright new chapter in human history. Feast your eyes, then, on Sharon Stone’s peace mission to Israel, on a world where Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort or Charlie Sheen analyses 9/11, and in which Jude Law’s attempts to establish contact with the Taliban are reported without irony.

The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit-Downs
by Sidney Lens
The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by explosive struggles for the most basic rights. From the martyrdom of the famous Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coalfields in the nineteenth century to the great sitdown strikes of the 1930s, the history of the American labor movement is filled with pitched battles that frequently erupted into open warfare.

Nadie Es Ilegal:
Combatiendo el Racismo y la Violencia del Estado en la Frontera
by Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacón
No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history.

Les Bienveillantes
de Jonathan Littell (Auteur)
Avec cette somme qui s'inscrit aussi bien sous l'égide d'Eschyle que dans la lignée de Vie et destin de Vassili Grossman ou des Damnés de Visconti, Jonathan Littell nous fait revivre les horreurs de la Seconde Guerre mondiale du côté des bourreaux, tout en nous montrant un homme comme rarement on l'avait fait : l'épopée d'un être emporté dans la traversée de lui-même et de l'Histoire.

The Kindly Ones
By Jonathan Littell
"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France.

Out Stealing Horses
By Per Petterson
Trond’s friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on “borrowed” horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.
At age sixty-seven, Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated part of eastern Norway to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer. Petterson’s subtle prose and profound vision make Out Stealing Horses an unforgettable novel—an achingly good read.

The Pornography of Power
Robert Scheer
In the course of his 40-year career as one of America’s most admired journalists, Robert Scheer’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him “one of the best reporters of our time.” now, Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and experience to one of the most overlooked and dangerous issues of our time—the destructive influence of America’s military-industrial complex.

La Reina de la Noche
Director: Arturo Ripstein
A female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her fatherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.

The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
Weighing the evidence with judicial care, and developing his case with scrupulous parsing of the written record, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel. He investigates, in turn, Kissinger’s involvement in the war in Indochina, mass murder in Bangladesh, planned assassinations in Santiago, Nicosia and Washington, D.C., and genocide in East Timor. Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation, and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, he mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.

Angler
The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman - Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.
Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before— yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought.

El sendero de Dante
Andrea Zurlo
La acción transcurre en Venecia, en el tiempo presente, un psiquiatra agnóstico, el Dr. Schwarz, obsesionado por el viaje de Dante Alighieri en la Divina Comedia, decide seguir sus pasos para comprobar la existencia de la vida después de la muerte, sometiéndose a autohipnosis.

Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
by Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges
In this devastating exposé of a military occupation gone awry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian reveal the terrifying reality of daily civilian life in Iraq at the hands of U.S. troops. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with combat veterans, Collateral Damage represents the largest number of named eyewitnesses from within the U.S. military to have testified on the record. These veterans, many of whom have come to oppose the war, explain the tactics and operations that have turned many Iraqis against the U.S. military.

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, IVAW with Aaron Glantz
In Spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered veterans in Washington, DC, to tell the truth about the U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Here are the powerful words, images, and documents of this historic event.

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Richard Stacewicz
This is the story of the soldiers who spoke their conscience and helped end the war in Vietnam. In all that has been written about the war, rarely do the worlds of the Vietnam veteran and the antiwar demonstrator come together. Yet in an articulate and determined organization known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the two made common cause.

Blackwater
by Jeremy Scahill
The best selling investigation into "one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. military-industrial complex. ...Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the 'global war on terror,' with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty thousand troops at the ready."

War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
by Michael Schwartz
In this razor-sharp analysis, TomDispatch.com commentator Michael Schwartz demolishes the myths used to sell the U.S. public the idea of an endless "war on terror" centered in Iraq. In a popular style, reminiscent of the best writing against the Vietnam war, he shows how the real U.S. interests in Iraq have been rooted in the geopolitics of oil and the expansion of a neoliberal economic model in the Middle East.

The Omnivore's Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.

The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.

THE DARK SIDE
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long held agenda to enhance Presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.

Opéra en deux actes: The Fly
Howard Shore
Le Chatelet, Paris
Primé au Festival d’Avoriaz 1987, The Fly (La Mouche) de David Cronenberg est devenu un film culte. Comme son héros, l’oeuvre subit aujourd’hui une mutation en devenant un opéra mis en scène par le cinéaste lui-même.
A l'occasion de la présentation en première mondiale de l'opéra The Fly, le Festival Paris Cinéma rend hommage à David Cronenberg lors d'une soirée exceptionnelle le jeudi 3 juillet 2008 à 20h, au cours de laquelle il présentera son film à l'origine de l'opéra La Mouche (1987) suivi de La Mouche Noire (1958) de Kurt Neumann.

BIOGRAFIA NO AUTORIZADA DE ALVARO URIBE VELEZ
Joseph Contreras
Por considerar que el libro adquiere en estos días una importancia vital para analizar la actuación del presidente colombiano en torno al Acuerdo Humanitario y la denuncia del presidente Chávez de una posible agresión militar que se estaría montando con el gobierno de Bush, Tribuna Popular publica, en formato PDF, dicho trabajo de investigación para conocimiento de todo nuestro pueblo.

the Visitor
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Sation Agent, Richard Jenkins ("Six Feet Under") stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.

Den ideelle amerikaner
En biografi om journalisten, reformisten og
fotografen Jacob A. Riis
Første fuldstændige biografi om den legendariske dansk-amerikaner Jacob A. Riis, som i 1870 slog sig ned i New York.

Where the Stress Falls
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classicAgainst Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.

Bush's Law
The Remaking of American Justice
Written by Eric Lichtblau
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush and his top advisors declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war–a new kind of war that would require new tactics, new tools, and a new mind-set. Bush’s Law is the unprecedented account of how the Bush administration employed its “war on terror” to mask the most radical remaking of American justice in generations.

Road from ar Ramadi
The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector... Now released after serving almost nine months, the celebrated soldier-turned-pacifist tells his own story, from his upbringing in Central America and his experience as a working-class immigrant in the United States to his service in Iraq—where he witnessed prisoner abuse and was deployed in the Sunni triangle—and time in prison. Far from being an accidental activist, Mejía was raised by prominent Sandinista revolutionaries and draws inspiration from Jesuit teachings. In this stirring book, he argues passionately for human rights and the end to an unjust war.