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…
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1. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Kathi Weeks
4.19
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
2. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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3. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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4. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
5. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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6. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
By: Andreas Malm
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more
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7. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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8. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- sociology
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
9. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
10. 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
- social justice
- sociology
- 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
11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- audiobook
12. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
13. 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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- social justice
- climate change
- economics
- environment
14. 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
- 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
15. 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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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
"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
16. 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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- nonfiction
- social justice
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"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
17. 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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- nonfiction
- sociology
- 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?
18. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
By: Naomi Oreskes
4.42
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. 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
- 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
20. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
21. 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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- politics
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- climate change
- economics
- environment
- audiobook
22. 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
- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- economics
- sociology
- environment
- audiobook
23. 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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- economics
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- 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
24. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
25. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
26. Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis
By: Adrienne Buller
3.52
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is th… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
27. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
28. Post Growth: Life After Capitalism
By: Tim Jackson
3.77
Format: 256 pages, ebook
'Empowering and elegiac'Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now'Utterly inspiring'Caroline Lucas, M… read more
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29. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
By: Kate Soper
3.61
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life The… read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
30. Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
By: Giorgos Kallis
3.93
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by… read more
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- climate change
- economics
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31. Hidden Myanmar การต่างประเทศร่วมสมัยและความเคลื่อนไหวของฤๅษีแห่งเอเชีย
By: ลลิตา หาญวงษ์
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"เมียนมา" หลังปลดแอกจากการเป็นอาณานิคมของอังกฤษ ก็มักถูกแปะป้ายจากสายตาคนนอกว่าเป็นประเทศที่ "ถูกแช่แข็ง"… read more
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