Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
By: Noam Chomsky
4.73
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1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
By: Nancy MacLean
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more
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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
2. The Sandman: Endless Nights
By: Neil Gaiman , Bill Sienkiewicz , Milo Manara , P. Craig Russell , Dave McKean , Glenn Fabry , Miguelanxo Prado , Frank Quitely , None , Todd Klein
4.33
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'The Sandman' is a series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, … read more
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"You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
"He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
"To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
"I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
3. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
4. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
5. The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
By: Douglas Valentine
4.03
Format: 453 pages,
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6. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
By: Jon Lee Anderson
3.73
Format: None pages,
From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi… read more
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7. 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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8. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
By: Thomas L. Friedman
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminat… read more
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9. Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
By: Noam Chomsky , Mike Davis , Rudolf Rocker , Nicolas Walter
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece … read more
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11. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
By: Noam Chomsky
4.73
Format: None pages,
"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deepl… read more
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12. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
13. 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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14. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
By: Naomi Klein
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. 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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16. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
By: None
3.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media, the companion book to the award-winning film, cha… read more
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17. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
18. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
By: Ayn Rand , Nathaniel Branden
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Ayn Randhere sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--… read more
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19. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
20. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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21. Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
By: None
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in… read more
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22. The Lexus and the Olive Tree
By: Thomas L. Friedman
3.97
Format: None pages,
In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs col… read more
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23. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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"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)
27. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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28. 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
29. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more
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"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
30. The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy
By: Stephen M. Walt
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects th… read more
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31. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
