The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
By: Mike Davis
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned a…
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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. Reform or Revolution
By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
4. Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World)
By: Martin Evans
4.29
Format: 458 pages, Hardcover
Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs … read more
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5. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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6. 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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7. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs , Jonathon Rosen
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes p… read more
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- history
- nature
- science
8. The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
By: Angela Y. Davis , Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining thi… read more
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- essays
9. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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10. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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11. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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12. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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13. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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14. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
15. 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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"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
16. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
17. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
18. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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19. The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
By: Mike Davis
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned a… read more
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20. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Andreas Malm
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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"Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"Corona can be an effect of climate; not the other way around. More importantly, the two are interlaced aspects, on different scale of time and space, of what is now one chronic emergency."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"It has taken the science some time to catch up and connect the dots, but, in 2012, one pathbreaking study derived one third of all existential threats to animal species straight from the sale of good…"-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
21. Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
By: Bruni de la Motte
4.33
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people impri… read more
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"What followed was the largest and most rapid privatisation ever seen in any country in the world (except perhaps in the Soviet Union under Yeltsin). Never in the history of civilisation has a state's…"-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
"What in essence happened under the Treuhand was a complete transfer without compensation of property and assets accumulated over forty years through hard work and effort by GDR citizens, as well as t…"-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
