Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
2. Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
By: Tim Jackson
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global popula… read more
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3. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
4. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
6. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- politics
- philosophy
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- audiobook
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
7. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
8. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
9. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
11. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
13. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- philosophy
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
14. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
15. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- society
- audiobook
16. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- sustainability
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- climate change
- economics
- society
- environment
- audiobook
17. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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- politics
- sustainability
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- climate change
- economics
- environment
- audiobook
18. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- society
- audiobook
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
19. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
By: Ernest Scheyder
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more
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- economics
- environment
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