10 best-selling theory books like Police: A Field Guide by David Correia

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Police: A Field Guide

By: David Correia

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book armed activists on the streets-as well as the many who have become concerned about police…

"Language, George Orwell reminds us, is always political. It can be used to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."

-David Correia, Police: A Field Guide

If you liked the theory plot in Police: A Field Guide by David Correia , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

By: Graham McNeill

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by… read more

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"The truth is useless if no one can hear it."

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus"

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus"

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan."

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

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2. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

By: Kristin Ross

4.09

Format: None pages,

The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reap… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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4. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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5. Horus Rising

By: Dan Abnett

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream… read more

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6. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

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7. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter

By: Jordan T. Camp , Christina Heatherton

4.19

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Policing has become one of the urgent issues of our time, the target of dramatic movements and fron… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. Stylish Academic Writing

By: Helen Sword

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to acade… read more

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  • nonfiction

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. Galaxy in Flames

By: Ben Counter

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces a… read more

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11. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

By: None

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we t… read more

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12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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13. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • 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

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14. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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15. 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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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"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

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16. 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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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • 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

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17. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

By: Geo Maher

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a who… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • police
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enem…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"The police cannot be reformed—more than a century of experience proves this beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if we tried, and we do continue to try, police resist tooth and nail even the smallest refo…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"A world without police is therefor a world in which the police are obsolete, useless—a world where they serve literally no purpose. Seen from this angle, we're already halfway there: the police are u…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"A world without police would be a world without poverty and hunger, in which everyone would have enough, and no one would need to look over their shoulder. It would be a world without white supremacy…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

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18. Police: A Field Guide

By: David Correia

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book armed activists on the streets-as well as the many who have become concerned about police… read more

Similar categories in David Correia's Police: A Field Guide book and David Correia's Police: A Field Guide

  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • police
  • crime
  • sociology
"Language, George Orwell reminds us, is always political. It can be used to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."

-David Correia, Police: A Field Guide

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19. Anarcho-Blackness

By: Marquis Bey

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

What Black liberation and anarchism have in common, and what they can offer each other. Anarcho-… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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20. Désobéir

By: Frédéric Gros

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Ce monde va de travers, à tel point que lui désobéir devrait être une urgence partagée et brulante.… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

By: Jillian York

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy What is the impact of surveillance capita… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

9 best-selling history books like Police: A Field Guide by David Correia

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Kristin Ross

4.09

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3.31

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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Jordan T. Camp , Christina Heatherton

4.19

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From Topic to Thesis: A Guide to Theological Research

Michael Kibbe

4.21

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Joseph M. Williams , Gregory G. Colomb , Wayne C. Booth

3.91

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Annie Dillard

3.26

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William Zinsser

4.24

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