Work Without the Worker
By: Phil Jones
3.62
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the fut…
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1. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
2. Bone
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
4. The ABCs of Socialism
By: Bhaskar Sunkara , Phil Wrigglesworth
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of "Jacobin" mag… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
5. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None
2.00
Format: None pages,
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6. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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7. Shark's Fin And Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English … read more
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8. Gadis Kretek
By: Ratih Kumala
4.14
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Pak Raja sekarat. Dalam menanti ajal, ia memanggil satu nama perempuan yang bukan istrinya; Jeng Ya… read more
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9. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
By: Jonathan Crary
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expandi… read more
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10. Pulang
By: Leila S. Chudori , None
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil poli… read more
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"Rumah adalah tempat di mana aku merasa bisa pulang. (Dimas Suryo)"-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Benarkah angin tidak sedang mencoba menyentuh bibirnya yang begitu sempurna?"-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Aku tak ingin berakhir seperti mereka, saling mencintai. Lantas kehilangan dan kini mereka hanya mengenang dan merenung dari jauh."-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Dan bibirnya adalah sepotong puisi yang belum selesai. Aku yakin, hanya bibirku yang bisa menyelesaikannya menjadi sebuah puisi yang lengkap."-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
11. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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12. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
By: Seth Godin
4.00
Format: 279 pages,
The old saying is wrongwinners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, o… read more
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13. The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
By: R.D. Laing
3.78
Format: None pages,
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person wi… read more
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14. 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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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
"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
15. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
17. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
18. Write for Your Life
By: Anna Quindlen
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of… read more
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- nonfiction
"Solitude can lead to a tunnel within ourselves at the end of which is a room we didn't even know was there."-Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life
19. 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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- philosophy
- 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
20. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- technology
21. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- technology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
22. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
23. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
24. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and … read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
25. Work Without the Worker
By: Phil Jones
3.62
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the fut… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
- technology
26. Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
By: Nick Bano
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A radical new intervention into the housing debate in the UK, and what we can do about it Why do l… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
27. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
28. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
By: Gavin Mueller
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
- technology
"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
29. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
By: Carissa Véliz
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- technology
30. Automation and the Future of Work
By: Aaron Benanav
3.89
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
- technology
31. Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week
By: Will Stronge
3.75
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
Work isn’t workingAs precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time whe… read more
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- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
