Re: [A-List] Fw: Pluto Press Politics newsletter April 2004

["James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Welcome to the April 2004 Pluto Press POLITICS newsletter

Publishing the very best in progressive critical thinking, this month
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CURRENT AFFAIRS

THE ROAD TO AL QAEDA: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man
By Montasser al-Zayyat, translated by Ahmed Fekry and Edited by Sara
Nimis
January 2004 / Pb £10.99  $19.95 / 0745321755/  Current Affairs  and
Biography
Proving yet again that the Pluto Politics list is at the cutting edge
of
current affairs, we bring you the story of Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri.

GROWTH FETISH
by Clive Hamilton
February 2004 / Pb £12.99  $22.50 / 0745322506 /  Business and
Politics
Voted one of the Guardian's top political reads of the year by a panel
of politicians, journalists, academics and Fabians. For
up-to-the-minute
information on this title, visit: www.growthfetish.com,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3083448.stm
http://www.samuelbrittan.co.uk/text182_p.html.

A WAR ON TERROR: Afghanistan and After
by Paul Rogers
January 2004 / Pb £12.99  $24.95 / 0745320864 / International Politics
Read two recent articles by our author on the Open Democracy website:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1816.jsp
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1822.jsp

GREEN ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALISATION: A Manifesto
By Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas
April 2004 / 256pp / Pb £11.99 / 0745319327 / Hb £40.00 / 0745319335
'Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of
economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives.' Dame
Anita Roddick

COMING SOON

RETHINKING WAR AND PEACE by Diana Francis / May 2004 / Pb £11.99
$19.95
/ 0745321879

HOW AMERICA GETS AWAY WITH MURDER: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and
Crimes Against Humanity  by Michael Mandel / June 2004 / Pb £14.99
$22.95 / 0745321518

GOD WILLING? Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the 'War on
Terror' and the Echoing Press by David Domke / July 2004 / Pb £14.99 /
0745323057

ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

SHARING THE LAND OF CANAAN: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian
Struggle
by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh / April 2004 / Pb £14.99 $22.95 / 0745322484

BAD NEWS FROM ISRAEL by Greg Philo and Mike Berry (Glasgow University
Media Group) /June 2004 / Pb £10.99 $19.95 / 0745320619

THE IRAQI PREDICAMENT: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics
by Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael / March 2004 / 288p / Pb
£14.99 $22.50 / 0745321496

CHOMSKY

LETTERS FROM LEXINGTON: Reflections on Propaganda - New Updated
Edition
by Noam Chomsky / March 2004 / Pb £12.99 / 0745322700

Don't miss the Real Story Series (Ex-North American Rights Only):
WHAT UNCLE SAM REALLY WANTS
THE PROSPEROUS FEW AND THE RESTLESS MANY
THE COMMON GOOD
SECRETS, LIES AND DEMOCRACY
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EVENTS

On 7th April, we launched The Betrayal of Dissent by Scott Lucas at
the
London Review Bookshop. Green Alternatives to Globalisation will be
launched on Thursday 15th April, from 6 - 8pm at the institute of
Commonwealth Studies with the authors Michael Woodin and Caroline
Lucas.
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PLUTO PRESS IN THE NEWS

Ted Honderich's Terrorism for Humanity received an encouraging review
in
the Guardian; Caroline Lucas, author of Green Alternatives to
Globalisation, is cited in a Guardian article about the Green Parties'
new slogan "Real Progress"; an excerpt from Clive Hamilton's launch
speech (Growth Fetish) was reproduced in the Independent; Peter Eigen,
Chairman of Transparency international wrote an article in the
Financial
Times about the new edition of the Global Corruption Report (2004);
David Miller, author of Tell Me Lies, has appeared in the Guardian in
a
correspondence over the right to freedom of speech; Clive Hamilton's
Growth Fetish was favourably reviewed in the Guardian; and the Jewish
Chronicle warmly reviewed Mira Hamermesh's The River of Angry Dogs.

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