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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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April 1st, 2010 Activism

What Would It Mean to Win?

The history of the past half-century and particularly the last decade is as easily told as a series of victories as defeats, maybe best as both. Sometimes we won--and this is what makes the What Does It Mean to Win? anthology such a powerful vision of the possible and the seldom-seen present. The authors of this book connect some of the more remarkable events of the last decade -- in Oaxaca,...

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October 6th, 2009 Activism

Direct Action: An Ethnography

In the best tradition of participant-observation, anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, "objective" perspective is impossible, he writes as both scholar and activist. At the same time,...

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May 1st, 2009 Activism

What We Leave Behind

Our current way of life cannot continue. The co-authors are upfront with this warning to readers: we must radically change our lifestyles and our mindsets about keeping Mother Earth alive if we expect to leave a healthy planet to future generations. Right now, they emphasize, we are failing miserably. Unfortunately, the necessary changes go far beyond the recycling of soda cans and...

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November 24th, 2008 Activism

Red State Rebels

Red State Rebels is a collection of essays about a broad cross-section of activists, malcontents, and nonconformists living in what coastal liberals too often write off as "flyover country." As editors Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank write in their introduction, "This book offers just a few snapshots of the grassroots resistance taking place in the forgotten heartland of America. These...

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September 15th, 2008 Activism

Nowtopia

Chris Carlsson is a long-time community organizer, writer and radical historian based in San Fransisco. He helped launch the Critical Mass monthly bike-ins, which now take place in five continents and over 300 cities, and was a founder of the dissident magazine, Processed World, a publication reporting on the “underside of the Information Age.” These experiences enrich his...

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