10 must-read theory books like Anarchism and The Black Revolution and Other Essays by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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Anarchism and The Black Revolution and Other Essays

By: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

An analysis of white supremacy vs the black struggle and what African-Americans should do next in t…

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1. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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2. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

By: Sarah Schulman

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber

3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Blood in My Eye

By: George L. Jackson

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Revolutionary Suicide

By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

9. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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10. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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11. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

12. Batman: The Long Halloween

By: Jeph Loeb , Tim Sale , Richard Starkings , Gregory Wright

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery … read more

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13. An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The HSS Matildais a generation ship organized much like the antebellum South. Embroiled in a grudg… read more

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14. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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15. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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16. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

17. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. 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

19. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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20. Creating Animated Cartoons with Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film

By: None

4.20

Format: None pages,

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21. Planet of Slums

By: Mike Davis

4.01

Format: 448 pages,

Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more

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22. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • history
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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23. カグラバチ 1 [Kagurabachi 1]

By: Takeru Hokazono

4.18

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

刀匠を志す少年チヒロは、父の下で日々修行に励んでいた。おちゃらけた父と寡黙な息子。笑いの絶えない毎日がいつまでも続くと思っていたが…ある日悲劇が訪れる…。血塗られた絆と帰らない日常。少年は憎しみを焚… read more

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24. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • essays
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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25. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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26. Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence

By: Elsa Dorlin

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"En 1685, le Code noir défendait « aux esclaves de porter aucunes armes offensives ni de gros bâton… read more

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  • social justice
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"La non-violence doit être comprise et circonscrite à un principe éthico-politique interne aux groupes mobilisés ; elle est donc une modalité de subjectivation politique qui n’a de sens que pour prend…"

-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence

"Passer à la violence' -celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission- est ainsi lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut être adressée pacifiq…"

-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence

"Passer à la violence' - celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission - est ainsi inextricablement lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut êt…"

-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence

"Cette [menace terroriste] ultime, qui traduit un attisement généralisé de la peur érigée en virtù, est désormais sous contrôle via la production de politiques qui insécurisent en permanence la sociét…"

-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence

Cover of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C.  Anderson

27. The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition

By: William C. Anderson

4.50

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle … read more

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28. The Trinity of Fundamentals

By: Wisam Rafeedie

4.62

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

By: Zoé Samudzi

4.46

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

The Democratic Party and the church—two institutions that rest on their spotty legacies on behalf o… read more

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"We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for."

-Zoé Samudzi, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

"What is citizen within a social contract where our Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial can be suspended in the event of our completely legal (but extrajudicial) murder by police?"

-Zoé Samudzi, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

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30. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

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31. Anarchism and The Black Revolution and Other Essays

By: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

An analysis of white supremacy vs the black struggle and what African-Americans should do next in t… read more

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17 Top history books like Anarchism and The Black Revolution and Other Essays by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Transform Your Habits

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Angela Y. Davis

4.58

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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

3.61

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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

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Assata: An Autobiography

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March: Book Three (March, #3)

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