The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Ann Pettifor
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it star…
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1. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
By: Peter Frase
3.78
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society … read more
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- politics
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"the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian"-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"… nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
2. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"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
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- politics
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
5. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- science
6. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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7. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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8. 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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9. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- society
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
10. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
11. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
12. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- science
"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
13. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
14. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- society
- science
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
15. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- nonfiction
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
16. The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
By: Noam Chomsky
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New … read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- activism
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
"Neoliberalism is a driving force causing the climate crisis. This is because neoliberalism is a variant of classic liberalism, and classical liberalism builds from the idea that everyone should be gr…"-Noam Chomsky, The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
17. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
18. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again
By: Duncan Weldon
4.15
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
'Here's the history that really matters' Financial Times The UK is, at the same time, both one o… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- society
19. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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- ecology
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
20. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
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- nonfiction
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
21. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
By: Mariana Mazzucato
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- society
"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
22. How I Became a Socialist
By: William Morris
3.82
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from How I Became a Socialist As an artist, however, Morris had a greater influence than as… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
24. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Naomi Klein
4.18
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
25. 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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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- activism
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"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
26. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- science
"We have a world to win"-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
27. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
By: Joel Wainwright
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
28. Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
By: Maya Goodfellow
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics. While refugees risked th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
29. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
By: Kate Aronoff
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. The age of climate gradualism is… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
"For better and for worse, our choice now is between eco-socialism or eco-apartheid."-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
"The climate crisis has been long framed as an issue of either techno-utopian tinkering, entrusting a few billionaires to save the day, or of collective self-sacrifices - us versus us. Have fewer chil…"-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
30. Automation and the Future of Work
By: Aaron Benanav
3.89
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
31. The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Ann Pettifor
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it star… read more
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- activism
- climate change
- economics
- society
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