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Slavoj Žižek

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The Spectacle of Disintegration

by McKenzie Wark

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.

40 posts
Gandhi

by Kathryn Tidrick
A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation
2 posts
Masks of Anarchy

by Michael Demson
A graphic history of a poem that became aninspiration to immigrant workers in New York
11 posts
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber

In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome

1 post

The American Crucible

by Robin Blackburn

How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals

19 posts
The Age of Globalization

by Benedict Anderson

“Exciting and important.”– Guardian

11 posts
Representing Capital

by Fredric Jameson
"No one writes books with sentences quite as forceful as these." – Monthly Review
9 posts
Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo

“A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions.” – Financial Times

20 posts

Yellow Peril!

by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

“Smart, funny, and comprehensive.” — Nell Irvin Painter

3 posts
The Enemy Within

by Seumas Milne

“The definitive account of the strike—the best book on the Thatcher era.” – Naomi Klein

15 posts
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People

43 posts
The Setting Sun

by Bart Moore-Gilbert

A moving literary memoir about a son's quest for the truth behind his father's colonial past

8 posts

Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
1 post
Outcast London

by Gareth Stedman Jones

At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators....
Narcoland

by Anabel Hernández
Explosive, best-selling account of Mexico’s drug cartels and the government-business nexus that enables them
18 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

3 posts

A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
“Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” —Financial Times
14 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

by Rosa Luxemburg

First volume of a major project to publish the complete works of a remarkable social theorist

36 posts
The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

17 posts
The Prophet

by Isaac Deutscher

Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volume

31 posts

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