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Blessed Unrest
Penguin Group USA |
April 1, 2008 |
342 pages
The environmentalist author of Natural Capitalism traces the contributions of a diverse, worldwide grassroots humanitarian movement through which conscientious individuals and organizations are dedicating their efforts to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. Reprint.
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How to Thrive in the Next Economy
February 1, 2017 |
192 pages
Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges--climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare--that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed but ultimately optimistic book, he... More Info
Doing Anti-oppressive Practice
March 1, 2017 |
350 pages
This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific contexts of anti-oppressive social work practice. Key to this practice is the understanding that the problems... More Info
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Reading 'Capital' Today
Pluto Press (UK) |
April 15, 2017 |
272 pages
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy, particularly evident by the resurgence of readers picking up Marx's most famous work, Capital. Now 150 years after its original publication, there are still fresh interpretations of Capital that can help readers find new... More Info
The Death of Money
Penguin |
April 4, 2017 |
368 pages
The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar. The U.S. dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of World... More Info
Doughnut Economics
Chelsea Green Publishing |
March 14, 2017 |
320 pages
Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster,... More Info
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
Knopf |
March 14, 2017 |
432 pages
In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality... More Info
Educational Justice
NYU Press |
January 10, 2016 |
248 pages
That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart’s owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their top-down... More Info
Capitalism and Desire
January 9, 2016 |
320 pages
After injustice and repression -- The subject of desire and the subject of capitalism -- The psychic constitution of private space -- Shielding our eyes from the gaze -- The persistence of sacrifice after its obsolescence -- A God we can believe in -- A more tolerable infinity -- The... More Info
Direct Action
Verso |
January 3, 2017 |
256 pages
A vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties What happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping of American radicalism, showing how... More Info
Postcapitalism
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
February 21, 2017 |
368 pages
We know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society? Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always emerged transformed and... More Info
The Industries of the Future
Simon & Schuster |
February 7, 2017 |
320 pages
The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring. While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to... More Info
$25.95
Rules for Revolutionaries
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Experience Research Social Change
October 5, 2016 |
400 pages
The third edition of this popular "how to" guide to research has been thoroughly revised, now containing twelve chapters organized into three parts: experience, research, and social change.
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A Theory of Imperialism
October 25, 2016 |
240 pages
In A Theory of Imperialism, the economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical... More Info
About Canada
September 1, 2016 |
144 pages
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s, but they are now so common that they have become the standard... More Info
Celebrity
Polity |
November 30, 2016 |
216 pages
It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet... More Info
The Spanish Anarchists
A K PressDistribution |
December 13, 1998 |
316 pages
The Heroic Years 1868-1936 A long-awaited new edition of the seminal history of Spanish Anarchism. 'I have learned a great deal from this book. It is a rich and fascinating account.' - Howard Zine
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How Will Capitalism End?
Verso |
November 8, 2016 |
272 pages
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is... More Info
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Taking a Stand
Macmillan |
September 27, 2011 |
256 pages
"Juan Mâendez has experienced human rights abuse first hand. As a result of his work with political prisoners in the late 1970s, the Argentinean military dictatorship arrested, tortured, and held him for more than a year. During that time, Amnesty International adopted him as a "Prisoner of... More Info
No More Heroes
November 15, 2016 |
175 pages
Charity is not solidarity. Saviors need not apply.
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The Great Surge
Simon & Schuster |
November 22, 2016 |
368 pages
The untold story of the global poor: “Powerful, lucid, and revelatory, The Great Surge…offers indispensable prescriptions about sustaining global economic progress into the future” (George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management). We live today at a time of great progress for the global... More Info
The Innovation Illusion
Yale University Press |
October 11, 2016 |
288 pages
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial--a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and... More Info
The Verso Book of Dissent
Verso |
September 6, 2016 |
384 pages
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and... More Info
Inventing the Future
Verso |
October 4, 2016 |
256 pages
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifest0... More Info
Good Is the New Cool
Regan Arts. |
October 25, 2016 |
272 pages
Good Is the New Cool will revolutionize how companies can position themselves and their brands, exploring a new philanthropy-based business model and the millennial pioneers driving it to entrepreneurial success. Overwhelmingly, surveys and statistics show that millennials—despite having long... More Info
Black Against Empire
October 25, 2016 |
568 pages
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police... More Info
Civilization and Violence
U of Minnesota Press |
December 13, 2018 |
224 pages
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Borders in Service
October 20, 2016 |
272 pages
In this collection, Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred Poster have gathered a wide range of contributors to explore the dynamics within global call centres.
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Playing Dead
August 9, 2016 |
272 pages
A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn. Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So... More Info
Europe in Revolt!
May 10, 2016 |
280 pages
The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive wave of resistance erupted across the continent.Europe in Revoltis a gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity. The... More Info
Politicized Microfinance
University of Toronto Press |
June 23, 2016 |
240 pages
In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad.
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Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization
July 12, 2016 |
280 pages
Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
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Saving Capitalism
Vintage |
May 3, 2016 |
304 pages
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of... More Info
International Migration
Oxford University Press, USA |
June 23, 2016 |
152 pages
In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration... More Info
Holding Fast to Dreams
Beacon Press |
March 1, 2016 |
208 pages
An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others. When Freeman Hrabowski was twelve years old, a civil rights leader visited his Birmingham, Alabama,... More Info
Eccentric Orbits
Atlantic Monthly Press |
June 7, 2016 |
496 pages
In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan’s "Star... More Info
Paul Robeson
Pluto Press (UK) |
January 11, 2016 |
256 pages
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages.
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The Carbon Bubble
Vintage Canada |
May 17, 2016 |
320 pages
As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil. For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the... More Info
The Human City
April 12, 2016 |
288 pages
InThe Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack” strategies. By exploring the economic, social, and environmental benefits of decentralized, family-friendly alternatives, Kotkin concludes... More Info
Why Save the Bankers?
Houghton Mifflin |
April 5, 2016 |
240 pages
The world's best-selling economist's brief, incisive essays on subjects ranging from austerity to inequality, Steve Jobs to climate change, documenting the global financial crisis in real time through the eyes of one of its keenest observers.
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Confronting Injustice
February 18, 2016 |
202 pages
Urgent and powerful call to build the mass movements necessary to overcome global climate & save the planet.
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Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
January 22, 2016 |
384 pages
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The New Rulers of the World
March 8, 2016 |
John Pilger's television film The New Rulers of the World was, among much else, a debunking of the myth of globalization. Reporting from Indonesia, he revealed how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design that was just the beginning of the imposition of a... More Info
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pluto Press (UK) |
October 13, 2015 |
176 pages
Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as 'To A Skylark', 'Ozymandias' and 'The Mask of Anarchy', he is considered a major Romantic poet with important new editions of his work currently being produced.... More Info
Gdp
September 1, 2015 |
184 pages
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was... More Info
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The Secure and the Dispossessed
Pluto Press (UK) |
November 13, 2015 |
248 pages
While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from 'climate refugees',... More Info
Struggle in a Time of Crisis
Pluto Press |
May 20, 2015 |
192 pages
It is becoming increasingly clear for those who care to see it, that class struggle is at the core of the crisis which started in 2007. The victory of neoliberalism is closely related to two decades of successful attacks on trade unions, in particular in the west. Progressive research is more than... More Info
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