Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic li...(展开全部)

Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic li...(展开全部)

This narrative takes an uncompromising look at the corporate vultures that prey on America's working class. Made up of pawnshops, payday lenders, check cashers, credit card companies and the like, the fringe economy entices vulnerable consumers into an economic netherworld.

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, "Life as Surplus" is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political...(展开全部)

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, "Life as Surplus" is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political...(展开全部)

First time in paperback: The acclaimed biography of Chopin focusing on his 18 years in Paris at the center of a dazzling circle that included Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz, and George Sand Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin emigrated to Vienna at age eighteen-and then to Paris, where from 1831 to 1849 he would spend almost half of his brief and tumultuous li...(展开全部)

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.