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…
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1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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2. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages,
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more
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3. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy
By: Bruno Latour
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Naturedoes nothing les… read more
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4. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
By: Andreas Malm
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more
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5. 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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6. Changer : méthode
By: Édouard Louis
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more
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7. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
8. 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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"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
9. 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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10. 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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"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
11. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
12. Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion
By: Bruno Latour
3.82
Format: 144 pages, ebook
Delivered in 2013 in Edinburgh as part of the Gifford Lectures, these lectures attempt to decipher … read more
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13. The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
By: Benjamin H. Bratton
3.40
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states fail… read more
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14. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
By: Bruno Latour
3.77
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty yea… read more
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"Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist."-Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
15. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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16. Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
By: Kōhei Saitō
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what … read more
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17. 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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18. Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.53
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M… read more
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19. 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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20. Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
By: Giorgos Kallis
3.93
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by… read more
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21. Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics
By: Cat Moir
3.67
Format: 196 pages, ebook
In Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new i… read more
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