Kirja-arvostelut
— Book reviews
Kirja-arvostelut
— Book reviews
(See also fiction)
Arvostelun kieli S = suomi, E = englanti — The language of the review S = Finnish, E = English
Hanna Abu Hanna, Pilven varjo. Suomen Lähetysseuran kustannusliike 2007. Alkuteos Zill al-Ghaima. Suomentanut arabian kielestä Kaarlo Yrttiaho. (Kaarlo Yrttiaho) (S)
Michael Albert, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism. Zed Books 2006. (E)
Tariq Ali, Revolution from Above. Hutchinson 1988. (S)
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Verso 2002. (E)
Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. Verso 2003. (E)
Tariq Ali & David Barsamian, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali. The New Press 2005. (E)
Tariq Ali, Rough Music: Blair / Bombs / Baghdad / London / Terror. Verso 2005. (E)
Tariq Ali, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Simon & Schuster 2008 (E)
Tim Allen & Jean Seaton (ed.): The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence. Zed Books 1999. (S)
Lisa Appignanesi & Sara Maitland (ed.), The Rushdie File. Fourth Estate 1989. (S)
Daniele Archibugi & David Held (ed.), Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order. Polity Press 1995. (S)
Beryl Bainbridge, Forever England: North and South. Duckworth/BBC Books 1987. (E)
David Baird, Between Two Fires: Guerrilla war in the Spanish sierras. Maroma Press 2008. (E)
Richard Barbrook, Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of Modernity. Pluto Press 1995. (S)
Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences. Polity Press 1998. (E)
Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Polity Press 2007. (E)
Ulrich Beck, Democracy without Enemies, Polity Press 1998. (S)
Antony Beevor, The Spanish Civil War. Cassell 2004. (Originally published in 1982.) (E)
Phyllis Bennis, Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis. Foreword by Noam Chomsky. Olive Branch Press 2003. (E)
Robin Blackburn (ed.): After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism. Verso 1991. (S)
Trevor Blackwell & Jeremy Seabrook, The Politics of Hope. Faber & Faber 1988. (S)
Keith Bosley (ed. & transl.), Skating on the Sea: Poetry from Finland. Bloodaxe Books 1997. (Essi Kiviranta) (E)
Jean Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War. Monthly Review Press 2006. (E)
Victoria Brittain (ed.), The Gulf Between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond. Virago Press 1991. (S)
Johan Bäckman (toim.), Entäs kun tulee se yhdestoista? Suomettumisen uusi historia. WSOY 2001. (Hannu Reime) (E)
Beatrix Campbell, Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places. Methuen 1993. (S)
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention. Pluto Press 2002. (S)
David Chandler (ed.), Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics. Palgrave Macmillan 2002. (E)
Noam Chomsky, The Culture of Terrorism. Pluto Press 1988. (S)
Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy. Verso 1991. (S)
Noam Chomsky, Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture. Verso 1993. (S)
Noam Chomsky, The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo. Pluto Press 1999. (S)
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on Democracy & Education. Edited by C.P. Otero. RoutledgeFarmer 2003. (E)
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. Metropolitan Books 2003. (E)
Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World. Interviews with David Barsamian. Metropolitan Books 2005. (E)
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on Anarchism. Selected and edited by Barry Pateman. AK Press 2005. (E)
Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Metropolitan Books 2006. (E)
Noam Chomsky, Interventions. Hamish Hamilton 2007. (E)
Noam Chomsky, What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World. Interviews with David Barsamian. Penguin Books 2007. (E)
Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power: The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy. Paradigm Publishers 2007. (E)
Alexander Cockburn, The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys & Encounters 1987-1994. Verso 1995. (S)
Mark Curtis, The Ambiguites of Power: British Foreign Policy Since 1945. Zed Books 1995. (S)
Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World. With a Foreword by John Pilger. Vintage 2003. (E)
Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Chatto & Windus 1990. (S)
Kingsley Dennis and John Urry, After the Car. Polity 2009. (E)
David Edwards and David Cromwell, Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media. Foreword by John Pilger. Pluto Press 2006. (E)
David Edwards and David Cromwell, Newspeak in the 21st Century. Pluto Press 2009. (E)
Kari Enqvist, Kuoleman ja unohtamisen aikakirjat. WSOY 2009. (Hannu Reime)(S)
Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Fourth Estate 2005. (E)(Suomeksi)
John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. Monthly Review Press 2009. (E)
John Fuegi, The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht. Harper Collins 1994. (S)
Susan George, The Debt Boomerang: How Third World Debt Harms Us All. Pluto Press with the Transnational Institute (TNI) 1992. (S)
Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora and Richard Wilson (ed.), Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order. Pluto Press 1993. (S)
Misha Glenny, Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy. Penguin Books 1990. (S)
Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War. Penguin Books 1992. (S)
Misha Glenny, McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers. Bodley Head 2008. (E)
Coleridge Goode & Roger Cotterrell, Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz. Northway Publications 2002. (E)
André Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason. Verso 1989. (S)
André Gorz, Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society. Polity Press 1999. (E)
David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor - Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11. Arris Books 2004. (Jorma Anttila) (S)
D. D. Guttenplan, American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009. (E)
Antti Halinen, Kuubalainen Kuuba. Like 2007. (S)
Stuart Hall, The Hard Road to Renewal. Verso 1988. (S)
Philip Hammond & Edward S. Herman (ed.), Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis, Pluto Press 2000. (S)
Charles Handy, The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future. Hutchinson 1994. (S)
Zellig S. Harris, The Transformation of Capitalist Society. Rowman & Littlefield 1997. (S)
Edward S. Herman, Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media. South End Press 1995. (S)
Heikki Hiilamo, Kuoleman listat: Suomalaisten salainen apu Chilen vainotuille. Otava 2010. (S)
Paul Hirst, Associative Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance. Polity Press 1994. (S)
Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy. Chatto & Windus 1989. (S)
Christine Ingebritsen, The Nordic States and European Unity. Cornell University Press 1998. (Laura Ferreira Pereira) (E)
Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Harvester Weatsheaf 1993. (S)
Max Jakobson, Finland in the New Europe. Foreword by George Kennan. The Washington Papers/175. Praeger 1998. (Hannu Reime) (E)
Max Jakobson, Tilinpäätös. Otava 2003. (S)
David Jenkins, God, Politics and the Future. SCM Press 1988. (S)
Marjut Johansson & Riitta Pyykkö (toim.), Monikielinen Eurooppa: Kielipolitiikkaa ja käytäntöä. Gaudeamus 2005. (Hannu Reime) (S)
Diana Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions. Pluto Press 2002. (E)
Hannu Juusola & Heidi Huuhtanen (toim.), Uskonto ja politiikka Lähi-idässä. Gaudeamus 2002. (Hannu Reime) (S)
Mary Kaldor (ed.), Europe from Below: An East-West Dialogue. Verso 1991. (S)
Markku Kangaspuro & Teemu Matinpuro (toim.), Suomi ja Nato: Eurooppalaisia näkökulmia sotilasliitosta. Like 2003. (S)
Antti Karisto, Suomalaiseläkeläiset Espanjan Aurinkorannikolla. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2008. (S)
Antti Kasvio, Uusi työn yhteiskunta: Suomalaisen työelämän muutokset ja kehittämismahdollisuudet. Gaudeamus 1994. (S)
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula & Marita Huhtaniemi, Rengistä Isännäksi: Vapaaksi kvartaalitalouden talutusnuorasta. Edita 2006. (S) (In English)
John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press 1991. (S)
Assaf Kfoury (ed.), Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky. Monthly Review Press 2007. (E)
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Allen Lane/Penguin Books 2007. (E)
Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Kosovo. Prion 2000. (S)
Marek Kohn, Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science. Jonathan Cape 1995. (S)
Mauno Koivisto, Witness to History: The Memoirs of Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland 1982-1994. Hurst and Company 1997. (E)
Gabriel Kolko, Century of War: Politics, Conflict, and Society Since 1914. The New Press 1994. (S)
Gabriel Kolko, Another Century of War? The New Press 2002. (E)
Gabriel Kolko, After Socialism: Reconstructing critical social thought. Routledge 2006. (E)
Urpo Kovala and Erkki Vainikkala (eds.), Reading Cultural Difference : The reception of a short story in six European countries. Publications of the Research Unit for Contemporary Culture, University of Jyväskylä, 2000. (E)
Ilkka Kylävaara (toim.), Taistolaisuuden musta kirja: Muistoja. Tammi 2004. (S)
Tapani Lausti, Toisinajattelun tiekartta. Like 2004. (S)
Tapani Lausti, Tienviittoja tulevaisuuteen. Like 2008. (S)
Peter Lennon, Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties. Picador 1994. (S)
Päivi Lipponen and Päivi Setälä (eds.), Women in Finland. Otava 1999. (Vellamo Vehkakoski) (E)
Fiona MacCarthy, William Morris: A Life for Our Time. Faber and Faber 1994. (S)
James McGilvray (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge University Press 2005. (E)
Kenan Malik, Strange fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Oneworld 2008. (E)
István Mészáros, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition. Merlin Press 1995. (S)
István Mészáros, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. Monthly Review Press 2008. (E)
Dan Morgenstern, Living with Jazz. A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer. Pantheon Books 2004. (E)
Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass. Picador 1989. (S)
Vicenç Navarro, Entrevista a Noam Chomsky: La situación política en Estados Unidos. Editorial Anagrama 2008. (E)
Gerald Oberansmayr, Supervalta EU: Euroopan unionin militarisoimisesta. Like 2005. (E)
George Orwell, Orwell in Spain. Edited by Peter Davison. Penguin Books 2001. (E)
Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Penguin Books 2005. (E)
John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World. Verso 2002. (S)
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind. Penguin Books 1994. (S)
Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. Constable 2008. (E)
Brian Priestley, Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker. Equinox 2005. (E)
Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck & Grigory Sevostianov (eds.), Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War. Yale University Press 2001. (E) (Suomeksi)
Keijo Rahkonen (toim.), Sosiologisia nykykeskusteluja. Gaudeamus 2004. (E)
Liisa Rantalaiho & Tuula Heiskanen (eds.), Gendered Practices in Working Life. Macmillan 1997. (Sue Innes) (E)
Hannu Reime, Israel/Palestiina: Kahden kansan luvattu maa. Like 2003. (S)
Kimmo Rentola, Vallankumouksen aave: Vasemmisto, Beljakov ja Kekkonen 1970. Otava 2005. (S) (In English)
Susan Richards, Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in the Deep Heartland. I. B. Tauris 2009. (E)
Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking. University of California Press 1994. (S)
Arundhati Roy, The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. Flamingo 2004. (E)
Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. Hamish Hamilton 2009. (E)
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus 1993. (S)
Edward W. Said, Power, Politics and Culture. Interviews ed. by Gauri Viswanathan. Bloomsbury 2005. (E)
Andrei Sakharov, Memoirs. Hutchinson 1990. (S)
Esko Salminen, The Silenced Media: The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe. Macmillan 1999. (E)
Esko Salminen, Viestinnällä vallankumoukseen: ”Demokraattisen toimittajakoulutuksen” aika 1960-luvulta 1980-luvulle. Edita/Kleio 2004. (S)
Walter Schwarz and Dorothy Schwarz, Breaking Through: Theory and Practice of Wholistic Living. Green Books 1987. (S)
Jeremy Seabrook, The Leisure Society. Basil Blackwell 1988. (S)
Jeremy Seabrook, Myth of the Market: Promises & Illusions. Green Books 1990. (S)
Jeremy Seabrook, Pioneers of Change: Experiments in Creating a Humane Society. New Society Publishers (Philadelphia) & Zed Books (London) 1993. (E) (Suomeksi)
Alyn Shipton, Handful of Keys: Conversations with Thirty Jazz Pianists. Equinox 2004. (E)
Juha Siltala, Työelämän huonontumisen lyhyt historia: Muutokset hyvinvointivaltioiden ajasta globaaliin hyperkilpailuun. Otava 2004. (S)
Osmo Soininvaara, Vauraus ja aika. Teos 2007. (S)
Chris Spannos (ed.), Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century. AK Press 2008. (E)
Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. Granta 1999. (S)
Judith Summers, Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood. Bloomsbury 1989. (S)
Leif Sundström, Fasismi. Like 2007. (Esa Aallas) (S)
Hannu Tarmio(n) Lontoo kutsuu: Matkakohteista moninaisin. Avain 2005. (S)
Hillel Ticktin, The Origins of the Crisis in the USSR: Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 1992. (S)
Teija Tiilikainen, Europe and Finland : Defining the Political Identity of Finland in Western Europe. Ashgate Publishing Ltd 1998. (John Palmer) (E)
Timo Toiviainen (ed.), By the People, For the People: The Tradition, the States of the Art and the Future Prospects of Finnish Adult Education. The Finnish Adult Education Association for the Finnish Ministry of Education and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation 1997. (Brian Groombridge) (E)
Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman. Viking 1990. (S)
Giles Tremlett, Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a country's hidden past. Faber and Faber 2006. (E)
Erkki Tuomioja, Suomen ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikka anno 2004. Tammi 2004. (E)
Erkki Tuomioja, Häivähdys punaista: Hella Wuolijoki ja hänen sisarensa Salme Pekkala vallankumouksen palveluksessa. Tammi 2006. Suomennettu englanninkielisestä käsikirjoituksesta: A Delicate Shade of Pink (E)
Dubravka Ugresic, Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia. Dalkey Archive Press 2003. (E)
Risto Uimonen, Median mahti: Kuinka journalistit käyttävät valtaa ja pakottavat maan mahtavia eroamaan. WSOY 2009. (S)
Ilmari Vesterinen, Mäyränkolon jazzareita: Tarua ja totta Old House Jazz Clubista ja suomalaisesta jazzmusiikista. WSOY 2006. (S)
Richard Wilkinson, The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier. The New Press 2005. (E)
Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism. Edited by Robin Gable. Verso 1989. (S)
Hugo Young, One of Us: A biography of Margaret Thatcher. Macmillan 1989. (S)
Mikko Yrjönsuuri, Roistovaltion raunioilla: Filosofinen arvio Irakin sodasta. Gaudeamus 2003. (S)
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 — Present. New Edition. HarperCollins Perennial Classics, 2003. (E)