<p>Has the practice of privatization become similar to warfare, dehumanizing us and reducing us to mere statistics? The Big Sellout offers an emphatic and sobering study of the human impact of global economics.</p>

<p>Myth of the Liberal Media<br />The Propaganda Model of News<br /><br />Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."</p>

<p>Author Naomi Wolf examines the disturbing similarities between post-9/11 US policy and that of historically fascist regimes such as Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. The End of America demonstrates that the United States is on a remarkably certain path towards ending democracy.</p>

<p>No Logo reveals the reasons behind the backlash against the increasing economic and cultural reach of multinational companies. Analyzing how brands like Nike, The Gap, and Tommy Hilfiger became revered symbols worldwide, Klein argues that globalization is a process whereby corporations discovered that profits lay not in making products (outsourced to low-wage workers in developing countries), but in creating branded indentitites people adopt in their lifstyles.</p>

The honeymoon is over.

<p>Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.</p>

<p>Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" -- and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need - and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them.</p>

<p><br />The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.<br /><br />Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise - that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany.

<p>A 4 part series by Adam Curtis.<br /><br />The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses.