The Concept of Nature in Marx
By: Alfred Schmidt
4.12
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Schmidt’s close reading of Marx’s own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, H…
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1. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
By: Steven Shapin , Simon Schaffer
4.01
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order,… read more
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2. Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism
By: Russell Jacoby
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jac… read more
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3. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
4. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
5. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
6. The Civil War in France
By: Karl Marx
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more
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7. The Revolution of Everyday Life
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Raoul Vaneigem
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
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8. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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9. 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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10. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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11. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
By: Carolyn Merchant
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern sci… read more
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12. How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
By: Alexander Anievas , None
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundame… read more
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13. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
By: Gillian Rose
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more
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14. 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
15. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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16. Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation
By: Gillian Rose
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Addressing topics such as architecture, cinema, painting, poetry, the Holocaust and Judaism, this w… read more
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17. 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
18. The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
By: The Salvage Collective
3.59
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale o… read more
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19. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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"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
22. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
By: Matteo Pasquinelli
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more
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23. 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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24. Progress of the Storm: On Society and Nature in a Warming World
By: Andreas Malm
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other In a w… read more
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25. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
By: Alberto Toscano
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more
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26. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
By: Kate Soper
3.61
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life The… read more
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27. The Spirit of Utopia
By: Ernst Bloch
3.85
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start. These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch's fi… read more
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28. On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
By: Ben Ware
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How to think about the end of the world and what we must do to rebuild beyond that final moment, fo… read more
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29. The Concept of Nature in Marx
By: Alfred Schmidt
4.12
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Schmidt’s close reading of Marx’s own writings and his relation of them to the positions of Kant, H… read more
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30. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
By: John Bellamy Foster
4.46
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radic… read more
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31. Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory
By: Gillian Rose
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt S… read more
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