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1	The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences more books like this by John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff add to wishlist In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. As banks collapsed and the state scrambled to organize one of the largest transfers of wealth in history, many--including economists and financial experts--were shocked by the speed at which events unfolded. In this new book, ... see all copies from $7.30! new only from $7.30! \| SVS
2	The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis. With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared toward private profit has spelled vulnerability for ... see all copies from $4.93! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
3	Labor and Monopoly Capital Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Harry Braverman, John Bellamy Foster (Introduction by) add to wishlist This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from work under capitalism. ... see all copies from $7.31! new only from $22.80! \| SVS
4	Capitalism and the Information Age Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolutionthe Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution more books like this by John Bellamy Foster (Editor), Robert Waterman McChesney (Editor), Ellen Meiksins Wood (Editor) add to wishlist Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ecology Against Capitalism more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of ... see all copies from $7.18! new only from $13.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Vulnerable Planet more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " "--Contemporary Sociology" "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " "--Dollars and Sense" "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world." "--Environmental Action" The Vulnerable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $64.26! \| first editions
7	Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire more books like this by John Bellamy Foster (Editor), Robert W McChesney (Editor) add to wishlist This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time--the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan, and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $11.78! \| first editions
8	Immigrants: Materialism and Nature more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.00!
9	Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment more books like this by Fred Magdoff (Editor), Prof. Frederick H Buttel (Editor), John Bellamy Foster (Editor) add to wishlist Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of ... see all copies from $2.81! new only from $17.05!
10	In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda more books like this by John Bellamy Foster, Ellen Meiksins Wood add to wishlist What is postmodernism? What are the reasons for its attractiveness? In Defense of History is a compelling challenge to postmodern fashion, written by new intellectuals on the left who are reviving historical materialism as an alternative. see all copies from $8.20! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present more books like this by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York add to wishlist Is the Teaching of Evolution to Be Banned in U.S. Public Schools? Is Science Once More to be Burned on the Cross? Will Creationism Win the 2,500 Year War with Materialism and Reason? A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Istvan Meszaros, John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking "Beyond Capital" and a major theoretical contribution ... see all copies from $21.75! new only from $21.75! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made inevitable--if business as usual continues. The roots of the present ecological crisis, ... see all copies from $13.08! new only from $13.08! \| SVS
14 view cover	Naked Imperialism: America's Pursuit of Global Hegemony more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since ... see all copies from $83.43! new only from $83.43!
15 view cover	Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance more books like this by John Bellamy Foster add to wishlist During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $12.47! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Imperialism Without Colonies more books like this by Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster (Introduction by) add to wishlist In the decades after 1945, as colonial possessions became independent states, it was widely believed that imperialism as a historical phenomenon was coming to an end. The six essays collected in this volume demonstrate that a new form of imperialism was, in fact, taking shape--imperialism defined not by colonial rule but by the global capitalist ... see all copies from $16.92! new only from $20.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17	In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda by Ellen Meiksins Wood (Editor), John Bellamy Foster (Editor) add to wishlist Presents essays that speak directly to the underlying assumptions of postmodernism and offer a critique of its usefulness in both understanding and critiquing the historical epoch. see all copies from $29.90! new only from $29.90! \| first editions

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