Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
By: Noam Chomsky
3.82
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive inte…
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1. 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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"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
2. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
3. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt
4.07
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more
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4. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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5. Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
By: Noam Chomsky , Peter Hutchinson , Kelly Nyks , None
3.50
Format: None pages,
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6. Arguably: Selected Essays
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguablyoffers an indispensable ke… read more
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7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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8. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more
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9. Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
By: Noam Chomsky , Robert W. McChesney
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In "Profit Over People," Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic … read more
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10. Letters to a Young Contrarian
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens ins… read more
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11. Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
By: Nick Mason , Philip Dodd
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here, for the first time, is the story of Pink Floydfrom the inside out. With 116 million albums so… read more
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12. Who Rules the World?
By: Noam Chomsky
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the… read more
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13. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
3.88
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our eco… read more
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- economics
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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- economics
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"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. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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- economics
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
18. 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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19. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
By: Noam Chomsky
4.38
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular un… read more
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- economics
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"The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems."-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
"In other words, first we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face. The technical term for this is "Western civilization"."-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
"Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It’s so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn’t s…"-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
20. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more
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"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
21. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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22. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
23. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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24. The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondent… read more
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"The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, mes…"-Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil is War
25. The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
By: Noam Chomsky
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophi… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- economics
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"I don't incidentally suggest that the deceit is conscious. Much more likely, it's just the enormous power of conformity to convention, to what Gramsci called hegemonic "common sense." Some ideas are …"-Noam Chomsky, The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
26. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
By: David Gelles
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles revea… read more
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27. Oracle
By: Andrew Pyper
3.74
Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio
Oracle is a psychological thriller audiobook following Nate Russo, an FBI psychic who helps solve a… read more
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28. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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29. Oracle 2 The Dreamland Murders
By: Andrew Pyper
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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30. Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
By: Noam Chomsky
3.82
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive inte… read more
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- economics
- sociology
31. A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.80
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sobering analysis of American foreign policy under Trump, the award-winning economist calls… read more
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