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.
The Right To Be Lazy
"Far better were it to scatter pestilence and to poison the springs than to erect a capitalist factory in the midst of a rural population. Introduce factory work, and farewell joy, health and liberty; farewell to all that makes life beautiful and worth living." The French constitution contains a phrase about the "Right to work." Unlike its US cousin, this phrase...
Community Orchards: The Essential Guide
Common Ground's Community Orchards Handbook is being published in a new edition by Devon-based Green Books. The handbook was compiled by Sue Clifford and Angela King, founder-directors of the national environmental arts charity Common Ground, which is based at Shaftesbury. The book is part of Common Ground's long-running campaign to preserve the heritage of English apples and...
Revolution and Other Writings in CHOICE
Today, Gustav Landauer is best remembered as a radical leader of the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic who was killed by reactionary soldiers in 1919. During his lifetime, this now half-forgotten figure was the leading voice of anarchism in Germany. Unlike most anarchists, however, Landauer was unusual in his distaste for violence and his distrust of the masses. This is not to say that...
Elephantmen: Dr Moreau meets apocalyptic noir science fiction comic
I'm late to the party on Elephantmen -- the comic has been running since 2006 and there've been three collections to date. I've just read the first one, Wounded Animals and I've got that happy, warm feeling that comes from discovering something great, finishing it, and realizing there's plenty more where that came from (I discovered the series on a visit back to LA's...
Thaddeus Russell. A Renegade History of the United States
Unlike many dissident histories of the United States, which attempt to portray racial minorities, sexual subcultures and subordinate classes as “worthy victims” in terms of the social mores of the white middle class, Thaddeus Russell celebrates the kind of people that your parents may have warned you about: the low-down, no-count, not-respectable people. You know, the folks who...
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