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…
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1. Ecotopia
By: Ernest Callenbach
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the enviro… read more
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2. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
3. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
4. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nonfiction
5. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
By: Naomi Klein
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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7. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"[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
8. New York 2140
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained th… read more
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9. 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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10. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
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11. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"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
12. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
13. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
14. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
15. 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
- economics
- nonfiction
16. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"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
17. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"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
18. 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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- economics
- nonfiction
"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
19. 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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- society
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
20. The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.40
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states fail… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
21. The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondent… read more
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- nonfiction
"The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, mes…"-Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil is War
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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- economics
- nonfiction
23. 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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- economics
- nonfiction
"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
24. 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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- society
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
25. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Andreas Malm
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"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
26. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
By: Joel Wainwright
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
27. Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
By: Yanis Varoufakis
3.81
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestsellin… read more
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- politics
- economics
- society
"BEWARE THE POWER TO CREATE MONEY FOR IT DOES TO ETHICS THAT WHICH WATER DOES TO SALT"-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
"The dirtier the industry, the richer and more despised, the more it's captains have been able to tap into the rivers of debt derived money to purchase influence and to blunt opposition."-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
"All capitalism proved itself capable of after 2020 — just as after 2008 — was a fascinating reversal of natural selection: the larger an institution's failure and the steeper it's financial losses, t…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
"What does it mean to be a proletarian, really? [...] It means you are a cog in a process of production that relies on what you do and think, while excluding you from being anything but its product. I…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
28. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
By: Kate Aronoff
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. The age of climate gradualism is… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"For better and for worse, our choice now is between eco-socialism or eco-apartheid."-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
"The climate crisis has been long framed as an issue of either techno-utopian tinkering, entrusting a few billionaires to save the day, or of collective self-sacrifices - us versus us. Have fewer chil…"-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
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
- economics
- nonfiction
30. Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
By: Mathew Lawrence
3.69
Format: None pages, ebook
A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown In the age of environmental break… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
31. Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain
By: Phil Burton-Cartledge
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a morib… read more
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