The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism
By: Ulrich Brand
3.96
Format: 256 pages, ebook
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1. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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2. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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3. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
By: Wendy Brown
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more
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4. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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5. Energy: A Beginner's Guide
By: Vaclav Smil
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
As Einstein pointed out in his famous equation, E=MC2, all matter can be described as energy. It is… read more
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6. 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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7. Olhos d'Água
By: Conceição Evaristo
4.44
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Em Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abor… read more
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"O amor é um poço misterioso onde se acumulam águas-lágrimas?"-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"Maria queria tanto dizer ao filho que o pai havia mandado um abraço, um beijo, um carinho."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"E entendeu também qual seria a sua vida. É, ia ficar. Ia entrar-entrando sem saber quando e por que parar."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"Lembrou-se então de que era uma mulher e não uma máquina desenfreada, louca, programada para corrercorrer."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
8. 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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9. 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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"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
10. 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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"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)
11. 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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- environment
"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
12. 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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13. Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
By: Şeyda Kurt
3.88
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
What is love? Ist die Liebe Sinn des Lebens, eine politische Allianz, Illusion oder Selbstzweck? Od… read more
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"In anderen Beziehungen treffe ich auf sanfte Menschen, doch manche lügen, andere haben ihren eigenen Sandberg, den sie mir auf die Füße ausleeren. Ein anderer ist ein ehrlicher und freundlicher Mensc…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
"Ein Versprechen ist die Entscheidung, einen anderen Menschen als Konstante in das eigene Leben aufzunehmen und nach gemeinsamen Wahrheiten zu suchen. Es ist die Entscheidung, die eigene Gegenwart und…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
"Doch reicht es, wenn ich in meinen romantischen Beziehungen oder Freund*innenschaften Verantwortung übernehme? Reicht es, wenn ich nur in diesen Verhältnissen daran interessiert bin, Machtgefälle und…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
14. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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15. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- environment
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
16. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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17. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
By: Raj Patel
3.84
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and these are the seven things that have made our world a… read more
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"If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh - and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that ha…"-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
"If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh -- and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that h…"-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
"What happens next is unpredictable at one level and entirely predictable at another. Regardless of what humans decide to do, the twenty-first century will be a time of "abrupt and irreversible" chang…"-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
"The frontier works only through connection, fixing its failures by siphoning life from elsewhere. A frontier is a site where crises encourage new strategies for profit. Frontiers are frontiers becaus…"-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
18. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
19. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
By: Andreas Malm
4.49
Format: None pages, ebook
Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the fi… read more
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20. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.98
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more
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21. The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism
By: Ulrich Brand
3.96
Format: 256 pages, ebook
With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalis… read more
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