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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

by Owen Hatherley
A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.
36 posts
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy

by Gabriella Coleman

“Essential reading.” – Glenn Greenwald

19 posts
Hara Hotel

by Teresa Thornhill

A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there

7 posts
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post

The History of Forgetting

by Norman M. Klein

Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.

1 post
Homo Juridicus

by Alain Supiot

A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life

3 posts
How to Abolish Prisons

by Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché

What is prison abolition?
I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
12 posts

The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology

by Göran Therborn

“Systematic and penetrating.”—Politics and Society

1 post
The Imperial Mode of Living

by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

Our unsustainable life: why we can’t have everything we want
In and Out of the West

by Maurice Godelier
Analyzing the role and trajectory of anthropology.
6 posts
In Broad Daylight

by Gabriele Pedulla
The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.
7 posts

In Defense of Housing

by David Madden and Peter Marcuse

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

17 posts
In the Shadow of the State

by Nicola Miller
A vivid exploration of Spanish American intellectual life.
Inequalities of the World

Edited by Göran Therborn
A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
Infancy and History

by Giorgio Agamben
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
8 posts

Infinite Tropics

by Alfred Russel Wallace

This collection comprises Wallace’s best writing on science, nature and society.

2 posts
An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
7 posts
Inside Babylon

Edited by Clive Harris and Winston James

A lively and informed reflection on the experience of black people in Britain.

6 posts
Interrogating Inequality

by Erik Olin Wright
Perceptive and thoughtful essays on the future of socialism and Marxism.
4 posts

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