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The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the endgame of America''s decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein''s regime, the storm of countervailing forces it unleashed points to another end: that of America''s latest global project. This is not the first time that the US has tried to reshape the world in its own liberal image, but the third. The first effort stretched from the late nineteenth century to 1920, ending when America rejected entry into the League of Nations. The FDR administration engineered the second attempt in the 1940s, but it withered in the Cold War. The third moment-the era of globalization-began in the late 1960s, when the US transformed the Bretton Woods financial institutions and used its own economic power to enforce a worldwide neoliberal orthodoxy tied to an ideal of liberal democracy. But the effort is failing for the same reasons the preceding attempts failed. As Neil Smith shows, the Lockean liberalism that animates American globalism has always been undercut by a crippling nationalism that exposes the contradictions built into the ideal. In each instance, a hard-edged nationalism-evident in the rejection of the League of Nations, in the policies of the Cold War, and in the current Iraq war-always surfaces and drives US actions despite America''s self-perception as a champion of benign universal values. Moreover, it always generates opposition. Attuned to history, political economy, and geography, The Endgame of Globalization is a sweeping and powerful account of America''s century-long quest for global dominance and the nationalism within that invariably unravels the dream.

Their last mission . . . For a year Lando Calrissian & Vuffi Raa, his five-armed robot astrogator, had roamed space in the Millennium Falcon,Ó seeking or creating opportunities to turn an easy, but not too dishonest, credit. But now their partnership seemed doomed -- for Lando''s uncharacteristic impulse to help a race of persecuted aliens had suddenly made him & Vuffi vulnerable to several sets of their own enemies . . . not least of whom was the evil Rokur Gepta, the Sorcerer of Tund!

Un escenario singular de la transformación del espacio público que se está produciendo en las ciudades occidentales ha sido Barcelona, cuya política urbanística de los años ochenta, orientada hacia el espacio público, culminó en las transformaciones propiciadas por los Juegos Olímpicos en 1992 y dio lugar a la expresión de «modelo Barcelona». Desde entonces, sin embargo, Barcelona se ha ido enfrentando a importantes cambios en los valores políticos que han dado lugar al nuevo espacio metropolitano. David Harvey es uno de los geógrafos más influyentes de los últimos treinta años. Sus trabajos sobre la geografía humana le han llevado a interesarse por los cambios en política económica, los procesos de urbanización en países capitalistas, las formas alternativas de urbanización y la justicia ambiental. Actualmente es profesor de geografía en la City University of New York (CUNY). Neil Smith es especialista en política económica, urbanismo social e historia y teoría de la geografía, dirige el Centro de Cultura y Política Geográfica en la City University of New York (CUNY) e imparte clases de antropología urbana y cultural. Ha investigado, entre otros temas, aspectos del desarrollo urbano, como el proceso de gentrificación y las pautas de inversión y desinversión que sigue el mercado inmobiliario.

Annotation American Empire challenges our deepest assumptions about the rise of American globalism in the twentieth century and puts geography back into the History of what is called the American Century.

Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Capitalist Monsters from Outer Space! Just when the 21st century thought it was safe to throw Marxism on the ash heap of history once and for all, a worldwide economic collapse suddenly made freedom seem less desirable than security, and the Total State turned out to be the comeback kid. In the US, where the power elite had long shown heartfelt affection for collectivism and making the trains (nationalized, of course) run on time, communism had a second coming. Which meant that Earth was now the Red Planet. The few holdouts and counterrevolutionaries would be dealt with in good time. Of course, collectivization only made the worldwide depression worse. But then the People''s Astronomers noticed an asteroid with unusual spectrographic properties, seemingly a treasure trove of valuable minerals that might rejuvenate the Earth''s economy. So three aged NASA shuttles were pulled out of mothballs. crewed by a team of handpicked misfits whom no one would miss, and sent to the asteroid. However, someone else was there first, under an airtight canopy made by genetically engineered trees. And they weren''t human, even if they were from Earth. The Elders were "nautiloids," like intelligent giant squids in Volkswagen-sized shells, from a parallel universe where they were Earth''s dominant species. Worst of all, they were CAPITALISTS! At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

When John Greenwood, a Catholic priest from Chicago -- and a liberal "child of the 60s" -- suddenly learns that he''s a Jewish Holocaust orphan, he asks desperately, what does that make him? Is he Catholic or Jewish? American or German? Father Greenwood plunges into a adventuresome search for identity and for truth. Who is right, his pacifist mentors, or his newfound family, some of whom died fighting Hitler? His mind spins as his struggle to find answers, for himself, his foster parents, his real family, and his long lost love, plays out against a background of real events in America and the world today. Everything he ever knew and believed is on trial. Tension builds to a surprise ending in Israel. 245 pages.

Tells the story of the Denver Bronco''s fight to overcome dyslexia, graduate from high school, and become a successful NFL player.

Bretta, Henry Martyn''s daughter, is ejected from her spaceship and left for dead by her father''s enemies, but the resourceful Bretta makes her way to a world of escaped slaves, where she vows revenge." At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Rates the chemical ingredients and mechanical properties of 97 marine products, ranging from varnishes and wood sealants to cleaners and polishes, to enable boaters to select safer products to minimize their impact on the environment.

This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if we are to gain any real understanding of the phenomena of language. However profound or however trivial the questions we raise and try answer - What exactly does one have to know to count as a speaker of a language? What would it mean for a language to have no vowels? Why do little children call lorries ''lollies''? Precisely what with this sentence is wrong? - we need to recourse to a theory even to make them coherent. In particular, the author argues that we can find solutions to our puzzles, and explanations for these phenomena, if we exploit on the one hand Chomsky''s theory of Generative Grammar, and on the other Sperber and Wilson''s theory of Relevance.

After surviving the crash of their spaceship, the first interstellar flight launched by the planet Vespucci, Whitney O''Thraight and a wounded officer are captured by savages, only to be rescued by a group of fierce monks

Traveling back in time to medieval Japan, the crew''s mutiny threatens to strand Captain Gruenblum in the past

Some thing flashed and a great roar deafened the audience. When the smoke and green-tinged vapor cleared, a lamviin alien - what was left of it, anyway - lay dead before the horrified gaze of several hundred eyewitnesses. Responsibility for solving the crime lay squarely on the three shoulders of Bucketeer-Inquirer Mav. But the windowless rokm had been locked, no one saw the killer, and the murder weapon itself was a mystery.