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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.
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Peter Marshall’s Demanding the Impossible has been hailed as the authoritative text on the rich and various history of anti-authoritarianism ever since it was first published by HarperCollins in 1992. This handsome new paperback edition from the independent PM Press features a new epilogue by the author, as well as updates and corrections throughout. Anarchism is a subject whose scope...
Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937
In Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937, Chris Ealham subjects the anarchist experience in Barcelona to a contemporary urban studies analysis, with striking results. Much of it has a strong, contemporary resonance in light of events in Greece. Ealham emphasizes the interrelationship of two features of the early 20th Century development of...
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Do you know a college student? Chances are, that person is going to graduate with an alarming amount of debt: Students in the class of 2008 graduated owing an average of $23,200 in student loans. It's now a given that you "need" a college degree to achieve middle-class status in the United States. But we also know that the middle class isn't what it used to be. So, is a college education worth...
Anarchism and Its Aspirations
Contemporary introductions to anarchism are rare considering the veritable explosion of interest in anarchism since the Battle of Seattle (when a loose coalition of trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, animal advocates, and many others shut down the World Trade Organization’s conference in 1999). Rarer still, are introductions written by anarchist contemporaries active within th...
We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008
Media madman, Glenn Beck, has finally smoked us out! Yeah, he confused communism and anarchism. Yeah, the "news story" he shared was a string of bizarre associations designed to befuddle the viewer into a state of absolute confusion. I swear, I really tried to make sense of it—and what any of it had to do with the books he discussed—but I couldn't.
In any case, to make whatever his insa...