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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.

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December 6th, 2011 Activism

Grappling with Graeber - Alternatives to Kamikaze Capitalism

Anthropologist and activist, David Graeber wrote 6 essays between 2004 and 2010 and they are now compiled under the title “Revolutions in Reverse”. We here in the United States have been told there is no alternative to markets and capitalism, but in these essays he comes up with some observations about how to go about re-imagining lives that have meaning and purpose. His idea...

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October 10th, 2011 Activism

What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, Free Will and Adventure

The Choose Your Own Adventure series comprised a large portion of my childhood reading. There was nothing more exciting than having the fate of say, James Bond, within your page-flipping fingers, and I have found myself longing for adult versions of the reading game. Thankfully, I’m not alone and several clever and fun Choose Your Own Adventure riffs have trickled throughout the...

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August 1st, 2011 Activism

Writing Resistance

The world cries out for resistance: glaciers melt, species go extinct, poor youth are shot down in the streets by police or warehoused in prisons, families are evicted from their homes, queers are beaten down, and workers labor long hours at miserable jobs for too little money. Across the planet, power exploits and brutalizes the lives of most people. People do, of course, resist. In China,...

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June 26th, 2011 Activism

Stuff White People Smash

Reading AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot kept bringing to mind one particular memory from the Summit of the Americas protests in Quebec City a decade ago. On April 20, the first day of the demonstrations, we marched in our thousands towards the fence, behind which 34 heads of state had gathered to hammer out a hemispheric trade deal. Under a hail of catapult-launched teddy...

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October 21st, 2010 Activism

The Enemy Is Inertia

The U.S. antiwar “movement” is dead, if it ever existed at all over the past 35 years. The U.S. government and its global partners are still invading and occupying nations and violently suppressing opposition movements. And the vast majority of people in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world are doing nothing useful to stop the nation-states in which they...

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