Abolishing the Police
By: Koshka Duff
4.00
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Abolishing the Police is both a contribution to this conversation and an invitation to join it. It …
Want to Read"Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
"Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
"We use the law though we are terrified of it, contemptuous of its Janus face. We ask the police for what we need, hoping they will not kill us before we have finished stating our claims."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
"We use the law though we are terrified of it, contemptuous of its Janus face. We ask the police for what we need, hoping they will not kill us before we have finished stating our claims."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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4. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
5. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- theory
- politics
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- nonfiction
6. Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... ... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded … read more
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"I AM IMPRESSED. “I have faith."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"You know, you're rather amusingly wrong."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
"Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost"-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
7. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
8. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more
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9. Riot Days
By: None
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A Pussy Rioter's riveting, hallucinatory account of her years in Russia's criminal system and of fi… read more
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10. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more
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11. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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12. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
13. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- crime
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
14. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
15. Against Borders: The Case for Abolition
By: Gracie Mae Bradley
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Why we need to get rid of borders Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished. Borders div… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
16. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
17. 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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- history
- theory
- 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
18. Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geogr… read more
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- theory
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Where life is precious, life is precious."-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
19. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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20. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
21. Abolishing the Police
By: Koshka Duff
4.00
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Abolishing the Police is both a contribution to this conversation and an invitation to join it. It … read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- activism
- political science
- crime
- sociology
"Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
"We use the law though we are terrified of it, contemptuous of its Janus face. We ask the police for what we need, hoping they will not kill us before we have finished stating our claims."-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
"The violence of the imperial project is not a mere historical curiosity, nor did it only take place in a 'distant land'; it shaped and continues to shape the technologies of British state violence to…"-Koshka Duff, Abolishing the Police
