In this rich collection, Hochschild has selected and updated 26 essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail...

A retelling of the story of the Trojan War illustrated with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war.

"Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United...

Atomic war bride is the cut, pan-and-scanned & dubbed version of the Yugoslavian film Rat (War); A young couple's wedding is interrupted by an air raid as their unnamed country goes to war, and they decide to go to the President and plead for peace as their leader announces an atomic strike against their enemy. This is not a test had a limited release in 1961. An atomic war has started, cities are emptying under martial law and a local sheriff gets...

Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers twentieth-century European social and political movements. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.