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An Anarchist FAQ, Volume I - Iain McKay
This exhaustive volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, An Anarchist FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style.
Having been an internet staple for over a decade, we are proud to offer this solicitously edited print version. A...
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The Gruesome Acts Of Capitalism - David Lester (Illustrator)
A beautiful book full of hard numbers - hard to take. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors - poverty, exploitation, and injustice - is a damning indictment of capitalism, created with love and rage. 1 in 5 American children live in poverty. 135 million of the world's women and girls have undergone genital mutilation. In Bangladesh, an estimated 50...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Human Rights - Paul Gready and Olivia Ball
How do we define human rights, and how do we protect them? Using vivid case studies from around the world, the authors illustrate how the concept of rights changes according to geography and culture.
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Antonio Gramsci - Steve Jones
For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work.
Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here include: ...
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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction - Colin Ward
What do anarchists want? Can anarchy ever function effectively as a political force? Is it more 'organized' and 'reasonable' than is currently perceived? Colin Ward provides answers to these and many other questions by considering anarchism from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, historical, and international, and by exploring key anarchist thinkers, from Kropotkin through to Chomsky. He looks criticall...
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The Line Between Us: Teaching About The Border And Mexican Immigration - Bill Bigelow
The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. But The Line Between Us is about more than Mexican immigration and border issues. It's about imaginative and creative teaching that gets stud...
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The Little Money Book - David Boyle
A handy pocket book, with bite-sized essays explaining everything you ever thought of asking, and probably lots you didn't about money, currency, economics, banking and much much more. From the moral economy of money to trading it electronically, hiding it offshore, the World Bank and the underground economy, to alternative forms of currency, interest and beyond. We don't mine it, we don't find it on the bea...
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Making Stuff & Doing Things: A Collection Of DIY Guides To Doing Just About Everything - Crimethinc (Contributor), Icarus Project (Contributor), and Kyle Bravo (Editor)
Kyle Bravo has assembled his HOW TO zines into a comprehensive book along with dozens of other instructional articles that tell you how to do...just about everything yourself. Topics include getting active, direct action, gardening, making a woodstove, solar box cooker, egg replacer, cooking ramen noodles in a coffee maker, how to make wine, homebrewing, building shacks, liberated lifestyles, squats, homesch...
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A Popular Guide To Building A Community FM Broadcast Station - T J Enrile (Illustrator)
A beginners guide, profusely illustrated, on doing it yourself. From what equipment is needed, to finding a location, to how to build a simple no-tune antenna; then there's the layout, testing a transmitter, tuning an antenna, and setting up the limiter compressor. Easy when you know how, and these simple to follow instructions give that practical knowledge to everyone. Produced by the folks responsible fo...
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Prison Town: Paying The Price - Kevin C Pyle (Illustrator), Craig Gilmore, and Real Cost Of Prisons Project
A lucid, informative, and digestible comic (illustrated graphic guide is probably more accurate) on the real costs (social, economic, community and personal) of what it means when a prison is built in a (typically poor, rural) town. There are more prisons in America than Wal-Marts. And there are more prisoners in America today than farmers. Kevin Payle and Craig Gilmore lay it all out.
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