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The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001–2006
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Charles Enderlin
Released: 2008-09-04
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From Ariel Sharon's ascent to power in February 2001 to the Israel-Lebanon conflict in July 2006, the Middle East has seen the most murderous years of a feud which is, today, half a century old. In The Lost Years, Charles Enderlin presents a scrupulous chronicle of the Israeli and Palestinian descent into hell. Political leaders and secret negotiators, military chiefs and CIA agents, Enderlin has ...
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Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Stories
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Sonia Nimr
Released: 2008-09-04
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Why do snakes eat frogs? What makes a man-eating ghoul become a vegetarian? How can a woman make a bored prince smile? And what's a king to do when a princess refuses to marry him? The answers are found in this engaging compilation of Palestinian folk tales, cleverly retold by Sonia Nimr. The charismatic women, genial tricksters, mischievous animals, and other colorful characters who appear in the stories ar...
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Images of American Radicalism
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Howard Fast (Preface by), Edmund Sullivan, and Paul Buhle
Released: 2008-09-04
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"Historians Buhle and Sullivan engagingly document here the history of American radicalism. The more than 1500 illustrations provided--72 in color--are paintings, drawings, cartoons, photographs, lithographs, posters, and other graphics depicting religious visionaries, Shakers, abolitionists, suffragists, anarchists, socialists, Communists, feminists, trade unionists, Civil Rights workers, gay and lesbian ac...
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
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Les Leopold
Released: 2008-09-03
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In this compelling biography—The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor—author and labor expert Les Leopold recounts the life of the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union leader, his struggle to address the unconscionable toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers—a fight that led to the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and his work alongside nuc...
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
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Maude Barlow
Released: 2008-09-03
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Scientists call them "hot stains"—the parts of the earth running out of clean, drinkable water. They now include northern China, large areas of Asia and Africa, the Middle East, Australia, the Midwestern United States, and sections of South America and Mexico. How did the world's most vital natural resource become so imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? Essential reading for all ...
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The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group
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Stuart Christie (Introduction by) and Gordon Carr (Director)
Released: 2008-09-03
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"You can't reform profit
capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it
breaks."
- Angry Brigade, communiqué.
Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns
and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against
property. A series of communiqués accompanied the
actions, explaining the choice of targets and the
Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organizatio...
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The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century
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Samir Amin
Released: 2008-09-03
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The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political organization seriously. Amin offers provocative analysis of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism, while boldly calling for a new global movement, "an internationalism of peoples," to challenge the current order and fashion a better world. Throughout the last century, g...
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The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction
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Marquis De Sade (Subject) and John Phillips
Released: 2008-09-03
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From his infamous libertine novels to his championing of atheism, the Marquis de Sade's writing remains as powerful and shocking today as when it was first published. This Very Short Introduction disentangles the real Sade from his almost demonic reputation of the past 200 years, and examines the literary and artistic legacy he has left behind. John Phillips reveals a revolutionary thinker determined ...
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Mr. Spic Goes to Washington
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Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil (Illustrator)
Released: 2008-09-02
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In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically-minded graphic novel. Weaving humor with social commentary, Stavans tells a tale of a Latino man taking Los Angeles' mayoral office by storm — and refusing to stop there. Illustrated throughout by Roberto Weil, the story follows the life a...
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Participatory Autonomy
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Dara Greenwald (Contributor), Hannah Higgins (Foreward by), Claire Pentecost (Contributor), Jeff Maki (Contributor), Christa Donner (Contributor), Rick Gribenas (Contributor), Jack Fisher (Contributor), and Carbon Defense League (Contributor)
Released: 2008-09-01
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Participatory Autonomy is a book about how an individual might go about maintaining their own autonomy while still participating within a given system. The contributions illustrate potential examples from the behavior of ants, objects that provide answers when systems fail, coded computer language and many others. The pieces include essay-length text, drawings, digital models, maps and diagrams.
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Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca
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Diana Denham and C.A.S.A. Collective
Released: 2008-09-01
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In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and earned the admiration of communities organizing for social justice around the world. The show of international solidarity for the people of Oaxaca was the most extensive since the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources...
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Pound The Pavement #10
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Josh MacPhee
Released: 2008-09-01
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Pound the Pavement's new binding technique helps to hold its wealth of content — Approximately 200 protest images of George Bush's face, or slanderous spray-paint scrawl invoking his name. The extensive cataloging within this zine had been 7 years in the making, or since that dark day Bush became president. Josh Macphee has captured images from all over the U.S as well as included photo's from o...
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Twilight of the Machines
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John Zerzan
Released: 2008-09-01
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The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture—both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions.
As John Zerzan writes, "These dire times may yet reveal invigorating new vistas of thought and action. When everything...
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Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía, and Iraq War Memoir
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Camilo Mejia
Released: 2008-09-01
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Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. His principled stand helped to rally the growing opposition and embolden his fellow so...
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City Kids, City Schools: More Reports From the Front Row
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Jeff Chang (Afterword By), Pedro A. Noguera (Editor), Gregory Michie (Editor), Gloria Ladson-Billings (Editor), Bill Ayers (Editor), and Ruby Dee (Foreward by)
Released: 2008-08-29
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Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan Kozol, Sapphire, and Patricia J. Williams provide som...
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Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY
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Alan O'Connor
Released: 2008-08-29
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This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Especially interesting are those operated by dropouts from the middle class. Other respected older labels are often run by people with upper middle-class backgrounds. A third gro...
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
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Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
Released: 2008-08-28
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The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.
If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, make homemade jam or bread, raise chickens or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of...
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Arise! Atlas
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Arise! Bookstore and Resource Collective
Released: 2008-08-28
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Perfect for those travelling to the Twin Cities to mount resistance against the Republican National Convention
The Arise! Books and Resources Collective announces a new project called the Arise! Atlas: A guidebook to the Twin Cities for Radicals and Progressives. The Atlas has maps of Minneapolis and St. Paul featuring information and locations of interest ...
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Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games
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Christopher Shaw
Released: 2008-08-14
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The shiny rings of the Olympic Games have grown tarnished over the years as doping, corruption and other scandals rise to the surface. Those scandals are the tip of the iceberg, according to author Christopher Shaw, the lead spokesperson for several anti-Games groups.
Five Ring Circus details the history of how Vancouver won the bid for the 2010 Games, who was involved, and what the real mo...
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Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945)
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Paul Sharkey (Translator), Martha A. Ackelsberg (Introduction by), and Ingrid Strobl
Released: 2008-08-01
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Common perception of women during wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitions factories, or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people whom official accounts have nothing to say. Partisanas excavates the history of women who planted bombs, shouldered guns, and were among the most active parti...
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Strangers Devour the Land
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Boyce Richardson and Winona LaDuke (Foreward by)
Released: 2008-07-17
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First published in 1974, Strangers Devour the Land is recognized as the magnum opus among the numerous books, articles, and films produced by Boyce Richardson over two decades on the subject of indigenous people. Its subject, the long struggle of the Crees of James Bay in northern Quebec—a hunting and trapping people—to defend the territories they have occupied since time immemorial, came ...
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The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon
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John Joseph
Released: 2008-07-16
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n his new autobiography, NYHC legend John "Bloodclot" Joseph recounts his hard times and spiritual redemption. A traumatic childhood in foster homes was just the beginning of John's evolution. Before fronting one of the most important bands in the underground punk scene, the Cro-Mags, John faced homelessness, addiction, betrayal and insanity. Still, even his success couldn't save him from a relapse that set ...
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Train on the Brain
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Alison Murray (Director) and Beck (Music By)
Released: 2008-07-16
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In what's been called 'The definitive train hopping doc', filmmaker Alison Murray drops out of the rat race, grabs a camera, and hits the rails with other punk kids on a trans-continental freight train hopping adventure. On their odyssey they encounter a cast of hobos and runaways, scallywags and castaways. Amidst run-ins with the law, and surviving the perils of the elements, Alison weaves her narrative fil...
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Biking to Work
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Rory McMullan
Released: 2008-07-16
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A complete guide for making biking to work a safe reality for the beginning bike commuter. For those who live within biking distance to work, this book offers simple safety, bike-buying, gear-buying, and basic maintenance tips, as well as ways to best plan your route to and from the office. By biking to work, you can improve your physical and mental health, save money, avoid creating pollution, and contribut...
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