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Klare Holt Paperbacks, 2002 best characterization of the geopolitical framework of the Post-Cold War era + Through detailed, an important concept + Power where does it all stem from... + Good book on resource geopolitics. My 13 yo son loves it             Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus1 review David Held Polity, 2004 Globalisation and world poverty This 2004 book studies globalisation and the World Trade Organisation. It takes into account the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the subsequent American responses in Afghanistan and Iraq. 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Barro The MIT Press, 1997 The best in the market... + excellent + Best book ever on macroeconomic principles Barro's text has been unfairly criticized as not being mathematically rigorous enough. However, it has established itself as the standard text at all of America's top colleges - Harvard, Chicago, MIT, et al. - by relying on non-proprietary, supplementary, calculus driven texts written specifically ...             The Wretched of the Earth31 reviews Frantz Fanon Grove Press, 2005 Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt + Revolutionary Literature with a Pulse + Revolution of thought + Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt             The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)10 reviews F. A. 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