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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.
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
Authors of short stories are lucky if they get their work published, never mind have it adapted into graphic novels. But that's the good fortune that has befallen Luis Alberto Urrea - granted, not just any short-story writer but the author of the acclaimed true-life account "The Devil's Highway" and the novel "The Hummingbird's Daughter." "Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush" (Cinco Puntos Press; 64...
Local Money: How to Make it Happen in Your Community
“I’ve really enjoyed the last three books to come out of the Transition Books stable, so I was pleased to see the latest instalment was out: Local Money – how to make it happen in your community. It’s another big square book, following Local Food, and it’s got the same practical, inspiring, can-do approach. This time, it’s all about creating local money networks.
The Transition ...
A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
Anyone familiar with the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari will no doubt recognize the reference to the pair’s A Thousand Plateaus in this book by the Viennese philosopher and art theoretician Gerald Raunig. Raunig draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the machine not as a separate mechanism but as a process, one in which life itself is thought of as machinic.
Athough his...
Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
One could, if one had confined one's horizon to North America in 2010, be forgiven for the (mistaken) impression that a serious project aimed at the concrete negation of the state was of little relevance in today's world-historical political conjecture - that the kinds of politics that describe themselves as anti-state or anarchist in, for instance the United State, are, at their best,...
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Freud's final book, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), compares the complexity of the individual psyche to Rome, Eternal City of layers and layers of architecture, history and experience, a city whose “long and copious past [has created] an entity...in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exis...