Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
It's been a little over five years that Hurricane Katrina unwittingly conspired with certain corporations, the US and various Louisiana government agencies to change the face of the city of New Orleans forever. The pictures of death and destruction and the sense of disbelief colored with occasional outrage may still be reasonably fresh in the national memory. Yet, as far as the...
Angry Brigade: A History of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group
This fascinating history of "Britain's first urban guerrilla group" (who fought for the people while stealing their chequebooks) begins with the 1971 bombing of the house of the employment minister, Robert Carr, and then works back to the évènements of May 1968, and forwards through the complex police investigation by the newly formed "Bomb Squad", and then the lengthy and sensational 1972 trial ...
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw is a canonical work in the world of postmodern gender criticism. The book is fifteen years old, though, and that is a veritable eternity in the realm of gender theory and trans* lives. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, picks up where the original work left off with a collection of essays gathered from different...
Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power: A Novel
If you could choose any of the characters from your childhood reading, who would you invite to help you spark a revolution? James Bond? Harry Potter? Badger from The Wind and the Willows?If you're the central character in Paco Ignacio Taibo's tricksy novella - one of PM Press's new "Found in Translation" series - you choose Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, D'Artagnan, Dick Turpin, the Light...
Do-It-Together Screenprinting
This 192-page book collects what appears to be three issues of Isaacson's zine of the same name, plus some bonus material. Actually, the first two issues carried the same name, the third one was changed to Do It Together Screenprinting, but we'll get to that later. The first issue provides a wealth of information about low budget screen printing at home in your bedroom, living room, or...
Browse By Section
- Activism (15)
- Anarchism (23)
- Appalachia (3)
- Art, Music & Poetry (7)
- Biography (5)
- Children's Books (5)
- Cookbooks (6)
- Cooperativism (3)
- Do It Yourself (5)
- Earth & Animal Liberation (3)
- Ecology & Herbalism (3)
- Economics (18)
- Education (5)
- Fiction (16)
- Food Politics (5)
- Gardening (5)
- Gender & Sexuality (7)
- Graphic Novels (17)
- Health (0)
- History (10)
- Homesteading (2)
- Latin America (6)
- Philosophy (9)
- Pirates & Ninjas (3)
- Prisons & Policing (3)
- Race Theory (1)
- Science & Technology (4)
- Spanish Language (0)
- Unsorted (0)
- Young Adult (3)
- Zine Related (0)