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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.
11 posts
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
11 posts
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
9 posts
In and Out of the West

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

Atheism in Christianity

by Ernst Bloch
Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.
5 posts
Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts
Pure Society

by André Pichot

As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts

Non-Places

by Marc Augé

A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space.
Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
3 posts
The History of Forgetting

by Norman M. Klein

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

1 post
Lockdown America

by Christian Parenti

Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics.

15 posts

Raiding the Icebox

by Peter Wollen
Groundbreaking study of radical subcultures by the influential cultural critic.
3 posts
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1

by Henri Lefebvre
A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism.
3 posts
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 2

by Henri Lefebvre
Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.
2 posts
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 3

by Henri Lefebvre
Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism.
1 post

Political Interventions

by Pierre Bourdieu
Urgent political writings of the major twentieth-century sociologist.
1 post
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

by Göran Therborn

The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.

6 posts
The Gospels

In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinker Terry Eagleton asks: was Jesus a revolutionary?

2 posts
The Record of the Paper

by Richard Falk and Howard Friel

A scathing examination of the editorial practices of the New York Times.

4 posts

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