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The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
Nick Turse

Holt Paperbacks, 2009

"Fascinating, no matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum."? Wired Now in paperback, a stunning breakdown of the modern military-industrial complex?an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon?s little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of ...

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

8 reviews
Nick Turse

Metropolitan Books, 2008

An important read.
An important read for all Americans. Well written, with an immense amount of details about, who, what, when and where the money goes. Obviousely a great deal of research went into this book, but it is written in such a way that you don't get bogged down in the details, they become a fluid part of a well told story. Open almost any page, and the documented, outragous spending and corruption, will ...

Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Radical Perspectives)

Duke University Press, 2007

This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North and South. In the volume?s substantial introduction, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, explain the need to move beyond the paradigm ...