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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles’ urban ecology and the city’s place in America’s cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, an- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786636247
- Language: English
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
$17.95 Add to cartWhat if we could do better than the family?
We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment- Author: Lewis, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767197
- Language: English
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What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism
$24.95 Read moreThis scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally- Author: Kundnani, Arun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1839762764
- Language: English
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
$19.95 Read more- Author: Bridle, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290424
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the q- Author: Pasquinelli, Matteo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788730062
- Language: English
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN Award
A work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proc- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804295507
- Language: English
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Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
$24.95 Add to cartThe portrait of a young artist making both a living and a life
As a young artist trying to make a living in New York without sacrificing all her time to paying rent, Sophia Giovannitti turned to sex w- Author: Giovannitti, Sophia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1839766700
- Language: English
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The Punishment of Gaza
$24.95 Add to cartIsrael’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17, 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676013
- Language: English
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The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
$15.95 Add to cartWe are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care–childcare, healthcare, elde- Author: The Care Collective
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1839760966
- Language: English
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
$19.95 Add to cartThis “sparkling” and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations–revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism (The Guardian).
The f- Author: Anderson, Benedict
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1784786756
- Language: English
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The End of Policing
$19.95 Add to cartThe best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition
“Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to beli- Author: Vitale, Alex S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1839763787
- Language: English
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartMulti-award-winning author China Mi騅ille captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)
I- Author: Miéville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 22, 2018
- ISBN10: 1784782785
- Language: English
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times Best Art Book of 2020
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology The divide between the digital and the real world no l- Author: Russell, Legacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1786632667
- Language: English
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Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
$19.95 Add to cartHow the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarity
The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms h- Author: Gould, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1839769025
- Language: English
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
$19.95 Add to cart2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous- Author: Meronek, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763345
- Language: English
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
$19.95 Add to cartThese “very funny-deep dives into the lives of the most dastardly queer people in history” offer a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond identity (Vogue).
What can we learn from the- Author: Lemmey, Huw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763280
- Language: English
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Bluebeard’s Castle
$19.95 Add to cartBluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale — from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre
When the successful Britis- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Biller, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291854
- Language: English
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
$26.95 Add to cartThe classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinker- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1788731182
- Language: English
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A Philosophy of Walking
$19.95 Add to cartThis “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers–from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer)
“It is only- Author: Gros, Fr?d?ric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290440
- Language: English
