A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
By: Dan Evans
4.22
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po…
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1. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
By: Mark Blyth
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United Sta… read more
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"facts never disconfirm a good ideology"-Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
"...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every area, from telecommunications to power generation to…"-Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
By: Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the w… read more
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"[W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? W…"-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
"Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French…"-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
4. 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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5. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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7. 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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8. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
9. 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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- society
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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
10. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
By: Dan Evans
4.22
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po… read more
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- economics
- society
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11. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigatin… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
12. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
By: Grace Blakeley
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more
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"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
13. 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
14. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
15. 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
16. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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17. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right
By: Oliver Eagleton
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more
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18. The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin)
By: Anton Jäger
3.84
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
A Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial CrisisA… read more
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19. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story
By: Ramzy Baroud
4.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
This is a history of modern Palestine like no built from the testimony of people who have lived th… read more
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20. Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
By: Matthew Brown
3.70
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up wit… read more
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21. The Soviet Woman: Selected Essays
By: Alexandra Kollontai
4.04
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
The revolutionary legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) has slipped into relative obscurity. Th… read more
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