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Anthropology & Sociology

Infinite Tropics

by Alfred Russel Wallace

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

2 posts
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
4 posts
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post
The Return of the White Plague

Edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

A global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering.

Where Vultures Feast

by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta

A devastating case against the world’s largest oil company.

3 posts
Crime in Literature

by Vincenzo Ruggiero
Addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works.
Privatising Culture

by Chin-tao Wu
Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.
1 post
Modern Times, Ancient Hours

by Pietro Basso
Working ever more intensely, at a faster pace and for longer hours, the modern working class needs to renew its struggle.

Malice

by Francois Flahault
The inner roots of malice—good and evil as inherent in the human condition.
Reification

by Timothy Bewes
“Bewes’s book is needed like daily bread.”—Slavoj Žižek
Barbecued Husbands

by Betty Mindlin
Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.
2 posts
The World Is Not for Sale

by José Bové and François Dufour

Recounts the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examines the issues behind the resulting campaign.

Cinema and Desire

Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.

7 posts
Animals Like Us

by Mark Rowlands
A manifesto for the moral rights of animals.
1 post
Legalize This!

by Douglas Husak
Exploding the myths that sustain the criminalization of recreational drugs.
Cultural Resistance Reader

Edited by Stephen Duncombe
An invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists.
6 posts

The Business of Books

by André Schiffrin

“A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader.”—Village Voice

6 posts
A Plague on Your Houses

by Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace
A frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
2 posts
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
15 posts
Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.