Paul Mason
1) Pop artists
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English
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Discusses the characteristics of the pop art movement which began in the 1950s and 1960s and presents biographies of eleven pop artists.
4) Iraq
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English
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Traces the history, landscape, culture, and resources of this large Middle Eastern country currently in political and religious turmoil.
9) Galileo
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A biography of astronomer Galileo Galilei, who invented the first telescopes and clocks with pendulums, among many other devices still used in modern astronomy; and who came to the attention of the Inquisition for arguing that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...
12) Brute force
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"Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains" --Container.