Ak: 114 books
Oppose and Propose
Lessons from Movement for a New Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Rarely remembered by name today, many of the new ways of doing radical politics that the Movement for a New Society (MNS) promoted have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements. MNS popularized consensus decision making, introduced the spokescouncil method of organization to activists...
by AK Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Anna Mylan can't take it anymore. She quits her job as a reporter and sells everything she owns. She moves to a rural town in Michigan for the peace and quiet to begin writing her Great American Mystery Novel. She meets a charming cast of characters and discovers secrets buried in the floor of her...
The Duty to Stand Aside
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Duty to Stand Aside sheds new light on the background and writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a book that has been a top seller since the early 1950s but that received an enormous boost during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when American politics suddenly began to resemble the world Orwell...
Worshiping Power
An Anarchist View of Early State Formation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization....
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
We've decided to launch an "Emergent Strategy" book series to build on the success of adrienne's book of the same name. Some books in the series will be written or edited by adrienne herself and some will be written/edited by others. This is the first book in that series.
The contributors are...
by D. D. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A coming of age story set in a Scottish fast food restaurant: take a group of full time burger flippers and cash starved students, add a likeable geek with a love of political theory, and a passionately angry French anarchist, and you have a recipe for rebellion. Rife with dry British humor and working-class sensibilities.
by AK Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
When an explosion shatters the life of golden boy Bradley ‘Wit’ Witson, he buries himself in his secret identity as Zero, a hacker respected by the denizens of the Dark Net. Grief numbs him to everything but his new purpose: vengeance. Theft and betrayal threaten the future of Marie Chase’s...
I am Action
Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
“Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.” —Ricardo Flores Magón
Born into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882, there was little indication that Praxedis G. Guerrero would evolve...
by AK Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Anna Mylan can't take it anymore. She quits her job as a reporter and sells everything she owns. She moves to a rural town in Michigan for the peace and quiet to begin writing her Great American Mystery Novel. She meets a charming cast of characters and discovers secrets buried in the floor of...
Bite No.1
The Old Man at the End of the World, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Shaun of the Dead **fans take note**!
Gerald Stockwell-Poulter couldn’t help but feel it was extraordinary just how quickly his life had changed. One moment he was earthing up leeks in the West Sussex sunshine and the next he was rooted to the spot as Rodney Timmins from the end allotment...
by Alethea Kontis
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner
In the fairy tale realm of Arilland, stories are told at children's bedsides--and not the stories you think you know.
Tales of Arilland is a collection of fairy tales, presented in the magical topsy-turvy way that only Alethea Kontis can...
"Yellow Kid" Weil
The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.
You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity—$8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals,...
Beauty & Dynamite
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
A new edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of this cult classic memoir!
Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts.
The young woman published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories...
The Governess
Book Two in the Liberty Troupe Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
You don’t choose your family. Sometimes a family can choose you.
When Evelyn Thompson’s father is murdered, her life falls apart. When it looks like her mother is the culprit, it seems impossible to pick up the pieces.
Bent on revenge, Evelyn applies for the position of governess...