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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author A History of the Present Illness Louise Aronson A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in American today. An elderly Chinese... Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights... Plato's Republic A Dialogue in 16 Chapters Alain Badiou Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark... The Terror Factory Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism Trevor Aaronson A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants... The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its millions of years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf... The Eve of Destruction How 1965 Transformed America James T. Patterson At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. In the House of the Interpreter A Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer who has lived through extraordinary times. In the House of the Interpreter tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence. Games Without Rules The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan Tamim Ansary Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist... Both Flesh & Not Essays David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was beloved for his inimitable voice and wit-and, for many of his readers, admired as much for his astonishingly perceptive and inventive essays as he was for his fiction. Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal... Hallucinations Oliver Sacks Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are... Black Fire The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer, and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco Robert Graysmith The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who... Monty Python's Flying Circus, Complete and Annotated: All the Bits Monty Python Every script, every episode of the innovative, hilarious, and absurd Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most influential television series of all time, is include here, plus hundreds of annotations, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and more, Sasha and Emma The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Paul Avrich, Karen Avrich Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities... Two Cheers For Anarchism Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play James C. Scott James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>