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The Dilemmas of Lenin
Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and...
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend...
by Seymour M. Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks...
The Great Cowboy Strike
Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses
In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of “rugged individualism,” independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their...
The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide...
by Frederic Gros
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche
In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B – the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble – and...
by Sara Paretsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski’s coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the women’s movement. Bestselling crime-writer Sarah Paretsky has won critical acclaim for her...
The E.U.
An Obituary
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?
Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham’s swingeing study explains why the European Union is so profoundly unsuited to the modern political economy. In a devastating historical account of political failure, he takes...
No God But Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...
by Mao Tse-Tung
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj iek
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blood and stimulate the mind. Drawing on a dizzying array...
Class War
The Privatization of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers
In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providing...
The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious...
Ryszard Kapuscinski
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War,...
An Impatient Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France’s leading...