Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
By: Elizabeth S. Anderson
3.99
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four Am…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they dominate them."-Elizabeth S. Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
"Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they dominate them."-Elizabeth S. Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Moral Disorder and Other Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she h… read more
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"You can't lead if no one will follow."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
4. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
By: Corey Robin
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the… read more
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5. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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6. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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7. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
8. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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9. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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10. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
By: Wendy Brown
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more
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11. My Bondage and My Freedom
By: Frederick Douglass , John David Smith
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following … read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Hatred of Democracy
By: Jacques Rancière , None
3.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he's… read more
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14. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
By: Charles Murray , Richard J. Herrnstein
3.59
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public po… read more
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"Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth."-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"How large is the black-white difference? The usual answer to this question is one standard deviation. In discussing IQ tests, for example, the black mean is commonly given as 85, the white mean as 10…"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"Richard Lynn was able to assemble eleven studies in his 1991 review of the literature. He estimated the median black African IQ to be 75, approximately 1.7 standard deviations below the U.S. overall …"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
15. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
16. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
17. 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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"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
18. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
By: Noam Chomsky
4.38
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular un… read more
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"The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems."-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
"In other words, first we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face. The technical term for this is "Western civilization"."-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
"Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It’s so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn’t s…"-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
19. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
By: Elizabeth S. Anderson
3.99
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four Am… read more
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- law
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
- business
"Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they domi…"-Elizabeth S. Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
20. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more
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"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
21. Faster than Light: How Your Shadow Can Do It but You Can't
By: Robert J. Nemiroff
4.13
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
From a creator, writer, and editor of NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day ... ******************… read more
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