Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation
By: Meredith Burgmann
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
At the height of the building industry boom in the 1970s a remarkable campaign stopped billions of …
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1. Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937
By: Chris Ealham
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Anarchism and the City is a fascinating look at four decades of tension preceding the Spanish Civil… read more
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2. Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
By: Samuel Farber
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is alm… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. 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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4. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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5. Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory
By: Lise Vogel
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
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6. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more
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7. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
8. 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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9. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
By: Manning Marable , Dan Georgakas , None
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Move… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
13. 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
14. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
15. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
16. 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
17. 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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- nonfiction
18. 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
19. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
By: Carl T. Bergstrom
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more
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"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
20. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
By: Noura Erakat
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more
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"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
21. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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22. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
23. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
24. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression
By: Tithi Bhattacharya
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen … read more
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- nonfiction
25. P.D.R. Yemen: Outpost of Socialist Development in Arabia (Political Science of the Middle East)
By: Helen Lackner
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more
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26. Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation
By: Meredith Burgmann
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
At the height of the building industry boom in the 1970s a remarkable campaign stopped billions of … read more
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- australia
27. The Story of Palestine: Empire, Repression & Resistance
By: Vashti Fox
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
For a left committed to fighting against colonisation, imperialism, and oppression, the Palestinian… read more
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28. On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949
By: Anne Scrimgeour
4.20
Format: 540 pages, Paperback
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withd… read more
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29. The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality
By: Stuart Macintyre
4.04
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
The Communist Party was a major part of Australia's political landscape for more than half a centur… read more
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30. In the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden Story of Australia in WWI
By: Robert Bollard
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought … read more
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31. Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19
By: Rob Wallace
3.97
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologi… read more
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