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| 1. |  | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media from Pantheon Price: $12.89 Customer Review:  Hey folks, If you're out there considering buying this book, please know that it might prove to be one of the most important books you'll ever read. You might realize that our government isn't always straightfoward with us. You might even have noticed the lack of objective and complete... |
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| 2. |  | The Essential Chomsky from New Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review:  This guy is such an elitist. From his current vantage of upperclass privilege, wealth, he makes his proclamations. Where does he come off being so superior? I read pieces of this book, but got way too irritated with his attitude and his content to go further. Yuck. |
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| 3. |  | Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project) from Metropolitan Books Price: $6.99 Customer Review:  Just when I thought I had reached the lowest muck of political cynicism, Chomsky shows me another level of hell. His revelations about America's Grand Imperial Strategy might make your stomach curl, while his endless banter about Israel wiil undoubtedly put you to sleep. In this book he swings from... |
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| 4. |  | Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Noam Chomsky turns the table on conventional wisdom by claiming that the state most in need of democratic intervention is the United States itself. His basic premise is that the United States government is controlled more by corporate interests than by the people. Government policies are driven by... |
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| 5. |  | The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature from New Press Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Regarding the so-called "power conspiracy" theories--which Chomsky has refuted several times, both in print and in lectures--proponents of those theories argue not, e.g., that there are meetings between the Board of Directors of Exxon-Mobil and their major stockholders--of which there... |
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| 6. |  | Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media) from Open Media Price: $9.95 Customer Review:  I am very much sympathetic to Chomsky's thesis in re: propaganda and "manufacturing consent." I have read many books on the topic. However, it is unfortunate that Chomsky is taken as an authority here. No doubt this is because of his anti-Americanism, which is always popular. The problem with... |
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| 7. |  | The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition) from Common Courage Press Price: $17.72 Customer Review: I am a Haitian, lived in Haiti until I came to the States at 28. I went back to visit the graves of my ancestors a few months before the departure of the monster Aristide. Aristide's regime and Duvalier's years in power did that poor country in. I had great hopes when Aristide came to power and felt... |
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| 8. |  | What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World from Metropolitan Books Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Chomsky consistently finds documents and articles that the rest of us have missed. Like all his books, this is full of fascinating revelations. His title comes from a speech by George Bush senior in 1991, when he said that the main principle of his new world order was, `what we say goes'. In... |
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| 9. |  | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky from New Press Price: $14.93 Customer Review: "Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky" is the best book I have read of his after completing "Profit Over People" and "Failed States". The short monologues make this book most accessible, and the large amount of topics make it incredibly interesting and engaging. The style of the narrative... |
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| 10. |  | Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order from Seven Stories Press Price: $11.65 Customer Review: Short published articles by Noam, usually as South American pamphlets or leftist newspaper articles. Easy to read and to the point, quicker to get though than the comprehensive Understanding Power. A good short Chomsky to introduce his most important concepts. A good first Chomsky too see if you... |
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| 11. |  | Chomsky on Anarchism from AK Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This book is a great introduction to both Noam Chomsky and anarchism, both in terms of its readability and its broad scope. Here one gets a taste of both anarchist theory and practice(alas, though, only a taste), as well as an examination of the celebrated peak of anarchism's influence on world... |
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| 12. |  | Language and Mind from Cambridge University Press Price: $17.81 Customer Review: I'm a scientist with a background in (analytic) philosophy, and am used to technical writing and complex ideas; I picked up this book on John Searle's recommendation in an article in the New York Review of Books. I don't know what Searle was thinking; I found these lectures impenetrable. |
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| 13. |  | Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies from South End Press Price: $16.06 Customer Review: Unlike the unfortunate trend I see on the left to review and condemn books by the likes of Coulter etc with out reading them, I will begin by stating that I could not read this whole book. Bad facts,outright lies (someone please send him to southeast Asia to speak with some lucky peasants who... |
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| 14. |  | The Chomsky Reader from Pantheon Price: $12.24 Customer Review: I hope you have plenty of necessary and emotionally powerful illusions to cling to my friend. Chomsky is a national treasure, whether one agrees with him or not. Where do they make people who can't see that? |
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| 15. |  | Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition) from Walter de Gruyter Price: $25.20 Customer Review: In this one of many books by Noam Chomsky, linguistics and psychology are intellectually intertwined in a way that makes them approachable for anyone from any academic background. |
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| 16. |  | 11 de septiembre (9-11, Spanish-Language Edition) from Siete Cuentos Price: $8.95 Customer Review:  I'm a pretty avid reader of Noam Chomsky, but this book was a disappointment. What I found absurd was his comparison of 9-11 with Clinton's bombing of Sudan. They are not morally equivalent-actually Chomsky actually goes farther than claiming moral equivalence and says Clinton's actions were worse.... |
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| 17. |  | Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) from South End Press Price: $14.96 Customer Review: After reading several of Chomsky's books, I have more and more respect for this author and thinker. He is a meticulous historian and political analyst, and his critics should read his works before attacking him. This book is a compendium of facts, figures, quotes, and analysis that comprise the... |
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| 18. |  | Anarchism: From Theory to Practice from Monthly Review Press Price: $14.00 Customer Review: Like it is said in the introduction in this book, the problem that is set for our time is that of freeing man from the curse of economic exploitation and political and social enslavement. We must rid the society of the private ownership of the means of production. The so-called "democracy" is just a... |
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| 19. |  | Interventions (City Lights Open Media) from City Lights Publishers Price: $11.65 Customer Review: Chomsky is the fountain of hope and truth. He will wake you up and tells the true story of our, 90%, laughable and joke of a Murdock/Puremock media. Stay hopeful and positive, as thing are finally changing. Wake up with Chomsky!!! REMEMBER AND READ ABOUT RACHEL CORRIE - ANOTHER MEDIA VICTIM -... |
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| 20. |  | What Uncle Sam Really Wants (The Real Story Series) from Odonian Press Price: $8.50 Customer Review: Noam Chomsky is a beast on the Left. However, his books are notoriously hard to read, which, unfortunately, causes many activists to bypass a great scholarly resource. What Uncles Sam Really Wants should alleviate this need. It is lucid, short, and to the point. This is the essence of Chomsky... |
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| 21. |  | Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future from Aperture Customer Review: This was originally in The New Yorker years ago, but I just got the book. Bowden provides a voice to the voiceless here, as we see the work of the photographers of Juarez. Content is king here, and it seems like they are witness to the apocalypse. One could get into the politics involved here and... |
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| 22. |  | Ya Basta! Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising from AK Press Price: $19.67 Customer Review: This book is an amazing collection of one of Latin America's greatest living writers and activists, Subcomandante Marcos (who I, incidentally, think is one of the sexiest men in the world!!! Apparently, I'm not the only one who shares this opinion. According to the book, "First World, Ha Ha Ha!",... |
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| 23. |  | On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works "Language and Responsibility" and "Reflections on Language" in One Volume from New Press Price: $17.12 Customer Review: Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955. He developed a theory of transformation grammar which has changed the study of language. He is also very active in politics and has several books on a variety of political issues. "On... |
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| 24. |  | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax from The MIT Press Price: $24.30 Customer Review: This is the single most influential book in the cognitive sciences. Everybody in that field defines their position in relation to this book. Has it stood the test of time? The fundamental distinction in the book is between 'competence' and 'performance.' We can have a hard, mathematical and... |
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| 25. |  | Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind from AK Press Price: $14.60 Customer Review: This is the kind of concise brilliance you can expect from Chomsky on the topic of propaganda: In Manufacturing Consent, co-authored with Edward Herman, Chomsky proposed a model of the mass media that moulds this consent with bias and omission. "Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to... |
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| 26. |  | New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind from Cambridge University Press Price: $26.99 Customer Review: This is a nativist argument... fine. But it's the same nativist argument said different ways. There was so much repeat in this book I feel that an easy third of it could have been omitted. Also, there's no introduction or abstract before each essential lecture, so you're forced to read the whole... |
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| 27. |  | Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (Working Classics) from AK Press Price: $11.15 Customer Review: How can a society progress to a level of legitimate egalitarian communization without the creation of a hierarchical structure of leadership or vanguard? For anarchists, the answer often lies in anarcho-communism or anarcho-syndaclism. This text by Rudolph Rocker, is perhaps the definitive work on... |
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| 28. |  | An American Addiction: Drugs, Guerillas, and Counterinsurgency in US Intervention in Colombia from AK Press Price: $13.98 Customer Review: In "An American Addiction", activist intellectual Noam Chomsky brilliantly examines the real objectives of Plan Colombia and the role of the US government in crushing popular movements in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America. My only criticism of this otherwise informative cd is the fact that the... |
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| 29. |  | Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media) from City Lights Publishers Price: $10.28 Customer Review: This book provides a straightforward, simple case against America's policy towards Iran. It consists of an introduction by David Barsamian and interviews with Noam Chomsky and two Iranian born specialists teaching in US colleges, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozahffari. The book provides a completely... |
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| 30. |  | The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (The Political Economy of Human Rights - Volume I) from South End Press Price: $18.26 Customer Review: Chomsky is about the most intense polemicist one is ever likely to encounter, and as a consequence, when reading him one should be very careful to check his sources and be on guard for tenuous logical leaps. However, he is also has no fear of speaking the unspeakable, and a knack for exposing the... |
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