Empire of Capital
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.97
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins …
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1. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
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3. 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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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
4. A People's History of the World
By: Chris Harman
4.80
Format: None pages,
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people form… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
5. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order
By: Emmanuel Todd
2.77
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Widely reviewed and critically praised, Emmanuel Todd's After the Empirepredicts that the United St… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
6. On Violence
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth… read more
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7. The Long Twentieth Century
By: Giovanni Arrighi
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The… read more
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- history
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- economics
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8. Ruling The Void: The Hollowing Of Western Democracy
By: None
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membershi… read more
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9. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit
By: Karl Marx
3.97
Format: None pages,
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10. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… 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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- theory
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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. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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13. 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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14. The Black Cloud
By: Fred Hoyle
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred H… read more
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15. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
16. An Introduction to Political Philosophy
By: Jonathan Wolff
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
What would life be like without the state? What justifies the state? Who should rule? How much libe… read more
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17. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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18. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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19. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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- philosophy
"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
20. Pastoralia
By: George Saunders
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more
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21. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
By: Perry Anderson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the mo… read more
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22. 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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23. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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24. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
25. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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26. 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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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
27. 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
28. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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- theory
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"We have a world to win"-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
29. Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
By: Nancy Fraser
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions su… read more
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30. Empire of Capital
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.97
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins … read more
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31. Anti-Systemic Movements (Radical Thinkers)
By: Giovanni Arrighi
3.65
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise of modern capita… read more
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