War in Ukraine
Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES
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Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, the authors insist the picture is more complicated. More
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
An Almost True Account
MATT TAIBBI and REGGIE HARRIS
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. More
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Early Detection
Catching Cancer When It’s Curable
BRUCE RATNER and ADAM BONISLAWSKI
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In an accessible yet fastidiously researched intervention Early Detection sets out the urgent necessity
of fundamentally re-directing the US’s approach to cancer treatment if President Biden’s recently announced prioritization of the issue is to be successful. More
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Extinction
A Radical History (Expanded Edition)
ASHLEY DAWSON
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This expanded edition of Extinction contains an extensive, new introduction by the author. Dawson asserts that the catastrophic extinction rate is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. More
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Inside Siglo XXI
Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Detention Centert
BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ
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Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belén Fernández, offers a different and wholly original take.
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Canopy of Titans
The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest
PAUL KOBERSTEIN and JESSICA APPLEGATE
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Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. It catalogs the threats to this vital environmental resource.
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11 Lives
Stories from Palestinian Exile
Edited by MUHAMMAD ALI KHALIDI
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The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.
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Cars and Jails
Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality
JULIE LIVINGSTON and ANDREW ROSS
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Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.
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Tesla
All My Dreams Are True
MICHAEL ALMEREYDA
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TESLA: All My Dreams Are True jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikolas Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker’s own restless, quixotic career.
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The Dead Center
Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy after the End of History
LUKE SAVAGE
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The Dead Center takes an acerbic and often ribald eye to contemporary politics, particularly those of mainstream liberals in the United States. Combining engaging polemic and serious intellectual analysis, it offers a timely portrait of a political landscape sullied by an already ineffectual Biden administration, the marginalization of forces around Bernie Sanders and the ominous shadow of Donald Trump in the wings.
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Decolonize Museums
SHIMRIT LEE
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With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures the fantasy of the the idealized Western museum, tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the museum. Citing pop culture portrayals from Indiana Jones to Black Panther and highlighting crucial activist campaigns to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.
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Operation Mindfuck
QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump
ROBERT GUFFEY
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In Operation Mindfuck, Robert Guffey argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon’s anonymous “drops” of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon’s underbelly, Guffey insists that we’ve seen it all before.
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
The Labour Party After Jeremy Corbyn
MIKE PHIPPS
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow sets out what the left needs to do to regain its sense of purpose: recognizing the advances that have been made in shaping policy agenda and intervening more confidently on the essential values of the Party. It assesses the position of Labour’s left in local government, in the internal structures of the Party and in the affiliated unions, and sets out a strategy for the left to maximise its impact and rediscover its relevance.
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Parrot Tales
Our Life with a Magical Bird
DEBBY SMITH & MICHALE STEVEN SMITH
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In encountering Charlie’s tales in this concise and charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only enjoyed as companions.
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Power Concedes Nothing
How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections
Edited by LINDA BURNHAM, MAX ELBAUM and MARIA POBLET
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Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate both old and new. In doing so it charts a viable path to victory for the vital contests upcoming in 2022 and 2024.
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Beyond Fossil Law
Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
TED HAMILTON
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Beyond Fossil Law: Climate, Courts, and the Fight a Sustainable Future answers a pressing question for the future of the planet: why is it legal for companies to pump dangerous gases into the atmosphere but illegal for regular people to stop them? Reviewing the current state of “fossil law”—the rules and regulations that allow the disruption of the global climate system—the book explains how financial interest, colonial power, and outmoded legal ideas block efforts to prevent global warming.
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The Broken Boy
PATRICK COCKBURN
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The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn’s own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world.
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The Black Agenda
GLEN FORD
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Profiling along the way storied Black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcom X and James Brown (for whom Glen Ford once worked), The Black Agenda looks, too, beyond American shores at US intervention in Libya, the Congo and the Middle East, showing how these are imbricated with racism at home.
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