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Adam Smith in Beijing

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

by Paul Feyerabend

Beyond Popper and Kuhn to an anarchist philosophy of science.

1 post
Agency of Fear

by Edward Jay Epstein
A sharp exposé of the true motivations behind the war on drugs.
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

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

by Marshall Berman
A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization.
9 posts
The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

by Andy Merrifield

A radical manifesto about doing what you love

8 posts
America

by Jean Baudrillard
“A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times
5 posts
Animals Like Us

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

Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

14 posts
Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

29 posts
Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico

9 posts

Atheism in Christianity

by Ernst Bloch
Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.
4 posts
The Authoritarian Personality

by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, et al.

Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism

9 posts
Barbaric Sport

by Marc Perelman

Globalized sport as savage spectacle and ‘opium of the people’

16 posts
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

Beyond the Pale

by Vron Ware

Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism

40 posts
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

by Michele Wallace
“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly
60 posts
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

9 posts
A Book of Migrations

by Rebecca Solnit
"A brilliant meditation on travel."—The New York Times
9 posts

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