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Chomsky: For Beginners - David Cogswell and Paul Gordon (Illustrator)
Noam Chomsky has written over 30 books, he is the most-quoted author on earth, the New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive" — yet most people have no idea who he is or what he's about.

Chomsky For Beginners tells you what he's about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas — Linguistics and... "gadflying." ("Gadfly," the word appl...
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How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth - Greg Palast (Foreword by) and Herve Kempf
Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world's wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.


In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the follo...
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Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation - PAPER TIGER TV
hile global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. Market This!is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and Transgender community. The documentary began in 1999 after the Queeruption gathering in New York City. During workshops and caucuses and through discussion a...
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10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care
Imagine a health care program that is publicly funded and covers all basic medical services from doctor visits, hospitalization, and long-term care to prescription drugs, dental care, and mental health. This book offers an array of powerful arguments for why and how this could become a reality. With fact-filled chapters written by leading physicians, health care professionals, policy makers, business-people,...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration - Paul Wright (Editor) and Tara Herivel (Editor)
Locking up 2.3 million people isn't cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Profiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country's experiment wi...
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Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century - Robin Hahnel (Contributor), Barbara Ehrenreich (Contributor), Michael Albert (Contributor), Noam Chomsky (Contributor), and Chris Spannos (Editor)
What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions-those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology-were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity, solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincin...
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Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity - Kevin Hetherington
Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not tr...
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What Democracy Looks Like - Max Sartin, Dominique Misein, Wolfi Landsteicher, and Adonide
These essays expose the underlying opposition between democracy and the freedom of individuals to create their own lives as they see fit. At present, capitalism and the sociopolitical system that best corresponds with it — democracy — dominate the planet. They undermine real choice, creativity and self-activity — all that is necessary for individuals to be able to create their lives as th...
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Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics - Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson
Corporate power is one of the strongest forces shaping our world. More than half of the top 100 economic entities today are private corporations. With their immense size comes commensurate influence, to the point where corporations are able to wreak social and environmental destruction with few serious consequences. Yet, amazingly, this subject is essentially absent from the study of economics.

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The New Freedom: Corporate Capitalism - Fredy Perlman
Perlman's first work, written while he was the printer for the Living Theatre. A publisher and activist born in the former Czechoslovakia, he work is a source of inspiration of anti-civilisation perspectives in anarchism. The New Freedom treats such topics as the growth of capitalism and ideology and manipulation.
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