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NEW TITLES/ NON-FICTION
Dearest Pet
On Bestiality
Midas Dekkers, Verso $43.40
Dearest Pet explores people's sexual attraction to animals as it is
represented in Art and popular culture. In doing so it illuminates the
ambivalence of human attitudes to cross-species sexuality. Analysing
bestiality around the world in all its aspects - physical, psychological
and legal - here is the first history of the last taboo.
Masters Of The Universe?
NATO's Balkan Crusade
Edited by Tariq Ali / incl. contributions by Noam Chomsky, Regis Debray,
Harold Pinter and Ellen
Meiksins Wood.
Verso, $54.27
This reader presents some of the most important texts on NATO's Balkan
crusade and forms a major intervention in the debate on global
geo-political strategy after the cold war.
Pinochet and me
Mark Cooper
Verso, $43.40
"Democratic Chile was indispensable in the education of Marc Cooper. Now he
redeems the debt by becoming indispensable for our education in democratic
Chile."
-Christopher Hitchens
Great Australian Women
from federation to freedom
Susanna De Vries, Harper Collins, $27.50
Great Australian Women presents twenty courageous women who broke down the
barriers of prejudice to enter the professions - law, medicine, politics
and architecture - or made their names as musicians, writers and
sportswomen. From Federation to the present century.
Brave New Seeds
The Threat of GM Crops to Farmers
Robert Ali Brac De La Perriere & Frank Seurat
Pluto Press, $32.95
This book, with it's dialogue between farmers' representatives and experts,
is a clear statement of principles that should guide governments and
communities in bringing this profit-motivated deployment of scientific
power under democratic control.
A New Generation Draws The Line
Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West
Noam Chomsky, Verso, $47.00
"One of the leading principles of the new era is that sovereignty may now
be disregarded in the interest of defending human rights...the proclaimed
principle has merit, or would, if it were upheld in a way that honest
people could take seriously."
- Noam Chomsky
Naming The Enemy
Anti-corporate Movements Confront Globalization
Amory Starr, Pluto Press, $32.95
Naming The Enemy is the first systematic documentation of the international
resistance to transactional corporations and globalization that has so
recently burst into the public gaze with the street protests in Seattle,
Washington, London and Prague.
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