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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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July 19th, 2010 Economics

In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives

Throughout the counter-globalization movement and into the era of the Bush Administration, I tried to wrap my head around a way to simply explain what is meant by the term “Neoliberalism”. I would say to classes, friends, and fellow activists that my take was that “Neoliberalism is characterized by privatization, deregulation of labor and trade and the commodification of more intimate ...

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July 18th, 2010 Graphic Novels

Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico

Ostensibly about the recent political strife in the Mexican state, Diario de Oaxaca will likely be far better known for its gorgeous visuals and packaging as a diary, complete with ribbon bookmark. The book, with bilingual versions of the story under the same cover, tells the story of artist Peter Kuper’s life in the community there. However, this book is much more than that. The 200...

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July 1st, 2010 Food Politics

Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

I was a vegan for almost 20 years.

I know the reasons that compelled me to embrace an extreme diet, and they are honorable — even noble. Reasons such as justice, compassion and a desperate, all-encompassing longing to set the world right. To save the planet — the last trees bearing witness to ages and the scraps of wilderness still nurturing fading species, silent...

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June 30th, 2010 Philosophy

Introduction to Civil War

Semiotext(e) have recently published the text "Introduction to Civil War" by the pseudonymous authorial collective Tiqqun. The text is number 4 of the intervention series which has set for its mission the publication of some of the most crucial, critical and concise works in political philosophy and political economy of the past few years, including Christian Marazzi’s "The Violence of...

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June 30th, 2010 Fiction

For the Win

Even though I've been involved in at least four union organizing efforts at jobs I have had since I began working in 1971, I have never worked at a union job. In addition, many of the various antiwar and antiracist endeavors I have been involved with have included trying to get unions on board. Having this experience with union activists has helped me stay abreast with the issues faced...

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