Or Books: 109 books
Creating Chaos
Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Creating Chaos explores that dark side of statecraft, the covert use of political warfare in international relations – from its early practices during the Great Game between the British and Russian empires, through the Cold War era of ideological confrontation and forward into the hybrid political...
by Douglas Rushkoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim the argument is essentially beside the point: it's here; it's everywhere. The real question is do we direct technology or do we let ourselves be directed by...
by Laura Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Just published by OR Books At the Tea Party presents a lively and informed expose of this explosive new force in American politics. It doesn't paint a pretty picture. Read these pages and you will come to understand the coalition of anti-abortion pro-gun advocates who comprise the tea parties' shock...
Rosset
My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Genet
Beckett
Burroughs
Miller
Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Tropic...
by Peter Lehner with Bob Deans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5 000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico the 560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then on April 20 2010 BP's dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion...
Pocket Piketty
A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
We all know the book: it’s been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn’t work, and it’s been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014, with more than 1.5 million copies sold. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes...
Remembering Akbar
Inside the Iranian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Set in the tumultuous aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Remembering Akbar weaves together the stories of a group of characters who share a crowded death row cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. A teeming world is evoked vividly through the relationships, memories, and inner lives of...
Black Ops Advertising
Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
From Facebook to Talking Points Memo to the New York Times, often what looks like fact-based journalism is not. It’s advertising. Not only are ads indistinguishable from reporting, the Internet we rely on for news, opinions and even impartial sales content is now the ultimate corporate tool. Reader...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: in the 22-day-long action 1 400 Gazans were killed several hundred on the first day alone. More than 6 000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged. The cost...
Folding the Red Into the Black
Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Walter Mosley is one of America's bestselling novelists, known for his critically acclaimed series of mysteries featuring private investigator Easy Rawlins. His writing is hard-hitting, often limned with a political subtext-aimed at a broad audience.
When Mosley was working on a doctorate in...
by Louisa May Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
During the recent renovations of the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusettshome of the famed Alcott familyworkmen repairing rotting beams discovered a handwritten manuscript tightly rolled into a bottle and buried in the earthen floor of what was once the root cellar. Conservators from Harvard Universitys...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this groups generally progressive...
The Fragrant Pantry
Floral Scented Jams, Jellies and Liqueurs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Beautifully designed paperback with French flaps and elegant interior illustration (b/w)
Bissell is the leading authority in the field of cooking with flowers, her previous books have been widely acclaimed, including by Raymond Blanc
Easy to follow recipes using flowers both wild and...
The Candidate
Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Nominated for the 2017 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing
In June 2017 an earthquake shook the very foundations
of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer
a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn
instead achieved a stunning upset—a hung...