Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
By: Ashley Dawson
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.…
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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4. The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
By: Arundhati Roy , David Barsamian
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a nove… read more
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5. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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6. 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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7. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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8. Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more
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"My lord."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"I never knew my father,"-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Even the dead had names."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
9. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
10. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
13. 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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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
"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)
14. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
By: Sumaya Awad
4.36
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in soc… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
15. 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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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- activism
- 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
16. 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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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
17. 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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- politics
- ecology
- nonfiction
- 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
18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
19. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
By: Katie Holten
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- environment
20. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
21. 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
- nonfiction
22. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.57
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over f… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
By: Andrea J. Ritchie
4.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, an… read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
24. Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
By: Teresa Aranguren
4.82
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
25. The Case for Open Borders
By: John Washington
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
26. Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
By: Ashley Dawson
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- activism
- environment
27. Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India
By: Siddhartha Deb
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An incisive, lyrically written, and deeply-reported account of India's descent into authoritarianis… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
28. O Body
By: Dan "Sully" Sullivan
4.13
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home… read more
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29. Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Abolitionist Papers)
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.38
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To … read more
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- nonfiction
30. The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition
By: Jeanelle K. Hope
4.20
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascis… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine
By: Mahdi Sabbagh
4.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A call to think differently and more concretely about the practice of solidarity, and a window into… read more
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