Mike Davis: 50 books
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A collection of 14 articles by mountain bike journalist Mike Davis, all originally published in influential MTB magazine Privateer between 2009 and 2013. Includes a history of titanium mountain bikes, a look at the unique devotion that Yeti owners have to their bikes, the experience of racing a twenty...
Nadie es ilegal
Combatiendo el Racismo y la Violencia de Estado en la Frontera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 5, 2016
“An urgent, important must-read.”—Jeff Chang, author Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
In Nadie es ilegal, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives...
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the...
Hunting Men
The Career of an Oregon State Police Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Mike Davis grew up in eastern Oregon riding dirt bikes, hunting, fishing, and attempting to avoid the Oregon State Police. It was not until after a stint in the US Marines, however, that Davis joined the very department he once tried to evade and realized his long-held dream of arresting bad guys....
The Monster at Our Door
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and “its argument is irrefutable” (The Independent).
Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian...
Be Realistic
Demand the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
For the 99%, in the language of the 99%, Davis offers experience-based guidance to the Occupy Wall Street movement, in a portable, fun to read, affordable and extraordinarily informative pamphlet.
Much will be written for and about the Occupy Wall Street movement but none with a voice as distinct...
by Mike Davis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Según la ONU, más de mil millones de personas viven en ciudades miseria, en favelas, cerros, chabolas, cantegriles, campamentos y barriadas del Sur global. En este ambicioso y brillante libro, Mike Davis explora el futuro de una desigualdad radical y de una inestabilidad a punto de estallar. Davis...
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis...
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles And The Imagination Of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s.
From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians have been directly...
Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York’s Wall...
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A 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, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
Reading the Text That Isn't There
Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.