FUND RAISING DINNER
Members of the New International Bookshop Co-operative would like you to
join them in the bookshop for a night of song, international cuisine and
camaraderie. It's a time to relax after the World Economic Forum and the
Olympics.
The is the first annual fundraising dinner for the Co-operative -- your
support will help us expand on the cultural/political activities that we
now provide.
7.30 pm Saturday 23 September at the NIBS
Music by jazz/blues singer Kate Slaney
$25/10
(byo drinks)
RSVP on 9662 3744 by 20th September. And if you can't join us, feel free
to make a donation!
Hear PAUL MEES,
President of the Public Transport Users' Association
tell them where to get off.
"The ALP's U-TURNS ON FREEWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT "
Saturday 9 September 2 pm at the New International Bookshop
54 Victoria St Carlton South.
VOLUNTEERS' SELECTION OF BEST NEW BOOKS
Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists
Edited by Mary Susannah Robbins
Syracuse University Press, $33.00
A collection of documents and essays about the issues still alive today on
democracy, freedom of speech, the right to dissent and the controversy that
continues to divide the country.
A Peoples History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
The New Press, $45.00
A text for classroom use comprising of questions and activities of more
than five hundred years of American social and cultural history.
Out of Place, A Memoir
By Edward W. Said
Granta Books, $22.95
An autobiography of the people and places that have shaped the ideas of
this eminent historian .
The Cold War and the University - Toward an Intellectual History of the
Postwar years
The New Press, $22.35
A collection of essays on the changes in intellectual life and the nature
of the university in America during the cold war era. Contributors include
Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and Laura Nader.
Equity, Environment, Efficiency - Ethics and Economics in Urban
Australia
Edited by Patrick Troy
Melbourne University Press, $43.95
A collection of essays re-examining the connection between ethics and
economics in the context of contemporary Australia.
Changing Track - A new political economic direction for Australia
By Frank Stilwell
Pluto Press, $32.95
Stilwell explores the Australian economy, arguing that it's failing to
serve our social needs. Issues covered include the globalisation of
capital, economic rationalism and downsizing.
The Women's Power Pocket Book
By Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner
Penguin Books, $8.95
A guide for women to claim their personal power at home, in the
workplace and in the community.
Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour.
By Bridget Anderson
Zed Books, $43.95
The treatment of women from the South by women in the North, examines such
topics as migrant women working as domestics with the consideration of
racism and other issues.
Stonewall
By Martin Duberman
A Plume Book, $28.55
Renowed historian and activist Martin Duberman recounts for the first time
what happened at the Stonewall gay bar in New York and the rioting that
changed the face of gay and lesbian life forever...
Social Economy - International Debates & Perspectives.
By Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan
Black Rose Books, $39.95
Essays dealing with the new social economy of globalisation.
Contributors include, Jade Quarter and Eric Shragge.
Feminists doing development - A practical critique
By Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd
Zed Books, $48.95
The dynamics of global feminism through a comparison of the activities
and academics of the North and South.
Myth and Measurement - The new economics of the minimum wage.
By David Card and Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University Press, $36.19
A book about the effects of low-income families and on the profitability of
low-wage employers according to new evidence found on the ongoing debate on
the minimum wage issue.
The Holocaust Industry - Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish
suffering.
By Norman G. Finkelstein
Verso Books $43.00
Thoroughly researched and closely argued, Finkelstein moves from an
interrogation of the place the Holocaust occupies in American culture to an
examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements.
JEFF
The Rise and Fall of a Political Phenomenon.
By Tony Richardson,Viking,$45.00.
His school report card said, " A keen, pleasant though sometimes erratic
boy". Jeff Kennett loomed larger than the Hindenburg over Victoria for
seven years as the Premier, then, like that hot gas balloon, he bursts and
collapses into the mire. Read about the rise and rise of the most admired
and loathed pollie since Whitlam.
The Third World in the age of Globalisation
(Requiem or New Agenda) ?
By Ash Narain Roy, Madhyam Books, $39.95.
The author gives a dual focus to international politics , globalisation and
the Third world. Firstly, what role does the Third world have in the new
agenda of market driven economies. The second theme explores the role Latin
America can play with the Third world and the USA. Developing countries
will have to reassert themselves and defend their interests in the new
world order.
Governing Change: Keating to Howard
By Carol Johnson, UQP,$32.79.
A major dilemma facing Australian politics is how to govern in times of
rapid economic, technological and social change. Carol Johnson gives a
detailed analysis of government policy and how they sell it to the electorate.
Humorous Sceptic or, is it just me ?
By N. Anthony Bonaparte, Black Rose Books, $32.95.
A collection of satirical cartoons from Canadian cartoonist, N. Anthony
Bonaparte, aka Napoleon. This is strictly for fans of Canadian humour.
Bonaparte uses cartoons instead of a gun to get at those in power. He does
not believe in safe and sanitized toons, the Mctoon. Does wit and humour
win over the gun ?
State Strategies in the Global Political Economy
By Ronen Palan and Jason Abbott with Phil Deans,
Pinter, $41.71.
Palan and Abbott argue that the State is not about to disappear. It can
fight back reorganize itself in response to transnationalization. This work
is a revision and updated version of their 1996 hardback edition.
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