An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation
By: Haim Bresheeth
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, o…
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
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. 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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4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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5. The Punishment of Gaza
By: Gideon Levy
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians an… read more
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6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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7. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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8. 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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- history
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"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
9. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
10. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- history
- israel
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- israel
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
13. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
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"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
14. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- history
- israel
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
15. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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- israel
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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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"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
17. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
By: Naomi Klein
4.23
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- history
20. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
21. Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
By: Jake Johnston
4.12
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Haiti’s state is armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after … read more
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22. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
By: Maya Wind
4.69
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universi… read more
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- israel
23. The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
By: Andrew Cockburn
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Why does America go to war? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders o… read more
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- nonfiction
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- war
24. An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation
By: Haim Bresheeth
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, o… read more
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- nonfiction
25. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine
By: Sai Englert
4.54
Format: 366 pages, ebook
In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
26. Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
By: Fred Scharmen
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk Many societies hav… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
By: Ilan Pappé
4.36
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US and others I… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- israel
"At the end of the day, many people in the twenty-first century cannot continue to accept a colonisation project requiring military occupation and discriminatory laws to sustain itself. There is a poi…"-Ilan Pappé, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
28. Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
By: Rebecca Ruth Gould
3.60
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
How the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarity … read more
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"If racism is the product of historical and socio-economic conditions, to the extent that these conditions can be changed, racism can eventually be abolished."-Rebecca Ruth Gould, Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
29. Imperium USA
By: Daniele Ganser
3.94
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Viele betrachten die USA als die größte Gefahr für den Weltfrieden. Woran liegt das? Ein Buch über … read more
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30. The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic
By: Paolo Gerbaudo
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societ… read more
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31. Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity
By: Jodie Hare
4.56
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An urgent call for a new politics of neurodiversity that supports difference rather than demands un… read more
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