That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-76
By: John Medhurst
3.76
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
It is time to look afresh at the 1970s. It was not a grey decade of decline, defeat and power black…
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. The Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.14
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more
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"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق میکرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آنوقت هیچکدام از این کثافتکاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمیآمد."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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5. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … read more
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6. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
7. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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8. Interesting Times: A Twentieth-century Life
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages,
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9. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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10. Travels with Herodotus
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska
3.90
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor,and … read more
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11. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
12. The Good Terrorist
By: Doris Lessing
3.68
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for … read more
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"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."-Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
"كانت التوجّهات التي تمَّ اختيارها هي : √ الأولى ، مشكلة البطالة - التي لابدّ مِن استثمارها. √ الثانية ، كراهية الشعب البريطاني عامةً لسياسة الحكومة حول التسلُّح النووي. √ الثالثة ، رفض الشعب البريطاني الناشئ…"-Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
13. Foundation (Foundation, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more
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"Past glories are poor feeding."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
14. When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
By: Andy Beckett
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The seventies are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political hi… read more
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15. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
16. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
By: Dan Evans
4.22
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po… read more
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17. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
18. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
19. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
20. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth
4.15
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more
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21. That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-76
By: John Medhurst
3.76
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
It is time to look afresh at the 1970s. It was not a grey decade of decline, defeat and power black… read more
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