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.
Robopocalypse: rigorous, terrifying novel about a robotic campaign to exterminate humanity
Daniel Wilson is a PhD roboticist who made his name with a series of fun, light science books about robot uprisings and similar subjects. But his new novel, Robopocalypse, is anything but fun and lightweight: it's a gripping, utterly plausible, often terrifying account of a global apocalypse brought on by a transcendant AI that hijacks the planet's automation systems and uses them...
Chasing Chiles
It is not often that ILIS will get an opportunity to be asked to do a book review. So we are delighted to do it, and hope we can do the review as much justice as our usual spicy product reviews. A little about the book, Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail and it’s Authors’ Kurt Friese, Kraig Kraft, and Gray Nabhan: Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of...
Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
This rich selection of interviews with left-wing intellectuals and activists mostly grows out of the syndicated Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain, cofounded by host and author Lilley. Lilley (and in one case her colleague, cofounder C.S. Soong) engages this international assortment of thinkers--from the well-known (David Harvey) to the less widely familiar (Doug Henwood,...
In and Out of Crisis: A Review
Among the many books on the contemporary economic crisis, In and Out of Crisis is in a class of its own. Three prominent scholar-activists have teamed up to provide an insightful and provocative analysis of the crisis and its implications for the future of neoliberalism, the American empire and the North American Left. In doing so, this new book picks up themes common to Panitch and...
Re-visiting Uncle Ted
Many of us grew up with a wild-ass grandpa or grumpy uncle. Whether they were preaching conspiracy theories, needling us to invest in gold or embarrassing us in front of our friends by gleefully threatening to get revenge on the techno-industrial empire, they usually made quite an impression. Ted Kaczynski might just be that relative to those of us in the radical ecological movement. Over...
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