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Paradigm PublishersMarch 2014256pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-6120-5256-4 £19.99Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandThe Myth of LiberalAscendancyCorporate Dominance from the GreatDepression to the Great RecessionG. Williams DomhoffBased on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challengespopular conceptions of the 1930’s New Deal. Arguing instead thatthis period was one of increasing corporate dominance in governmentaffairs.While FDR’s New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tideturned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every majornew economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of corporatedominance.Domhoff concludes that in terms of economic influence, liberalismwas on a long steady decline, and that ironically, it was the successes ofthe civil rights, feminist, environmental, and gay-lesbian movementsthat led to the final defeat of the liberal-labour alliance after 1968.g. williams domhoff is Professor Emeritus at UC-Santa Cruz, UnitedStates.We the PeoplesA UN For the Twenty-First CenturyKofi A. AnnanDuring his time as Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan launchedthe Millennium Developmental Goals, established the InternationalCriminal Court and articulated the Responsibility to Protect as aprinciple for international action. This book gives an overview ofAnnan’s concerns and displays his eloquence.Covering the subjects of development, security, human rights,peacekeeping and the prevention of genocide; these statements attestto the intensity of the UN’s involvement in the most important issuesof the era.This book shows how Annan’s words on war, peace and humanityresonate in so many ways - and carry great weight in the way in whichthe UN continues to develop its role in the world..march 2014256pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-6120-5558-9 £15.99Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealandkofi a. Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to2006. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.36www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress
Paradigm PublishersThe Pen Knows Its JobPeter Orlovsky, a Life in WordsPeter Orlovsky. Edited by Bill MorganPeter Orlovsky, who died in 2010, was best known as the longtimecompanion of the poet Allen Ginsberg. But he was also anaccomplished writer himself. This collection of unpublished letters,poems, photographs, and journal entries shows his story in his ownwords and reveals the inside story of his relationship with Ginsberg.Born in 1933 into a Russian immigrant family, Orlovsky served inthe Army until he decided that he was more interested in reading thanfighting. His world changed in 1954 when he met Allen Ginsberg.Through Ginsberg, Orlovsky came to know Jack Kerouac, William S.Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and all the other writers who made up theBeat Generation.When Ginsberg took his poetry on the road, Orlovsky often traveledwith him as a musician - but at the price of his own individuality.His fragile mental health broken, he died alone and forgotten. Thesememoirs show Orlovsky’s creative imagination and why he was a vitalinspiration to the Beat generation.peter orlovsky (1933 - 2010) was a poet and muscian.bill morgan is a writer, archivist and bibliographer. He is the author of ICelebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg (2006).april 2014352pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-6120-5582-4 £15.99Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandTo the CloudBig Data in a Turbulent WorldVincent MoscoIn the wake of revelations about National Security Agency activities- many of which occur ‘in the cloud’ - this book offers a critical view.Cloud computing and big data are arguably the most significant forcesin information technology today. To the Cloud explores where the cloudoriginated and its importance for business, government and citizens.It describes the competition among cloud companies like Amazonand Google, the spread of the cloud to government agencies likethe NSA, and the astounding growth of entire cloud cities in China.From advertising to trade shows, the cloud and big data are furiouslymarketed to the world.Is the cloud the long-promised information utility that will solvemany of the world’s economic and social problems? To the Cloudprovides the first thorough analysis of the potential and problems ofthis new technology.vincent mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University,Canada. He is the author of numerous books including The Political Econmyof Communication (2009).may 2014288pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-6120-5616-6 £16.99Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealandwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 37
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