Or Books: 109 books
Trade Is War
The West's War Against the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
"This impressive study focuses on Africa, which has suffered hideous crimes. Yash Tandon’s case is a powerful one, and can be extended: The global class war that is institutionalized in the misnamed 'free trade agreements' is also a war against the traditional victims of class war at home. The resistance,...
Hacking Politics
How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Hacking Politics is a firsthand account of how a ragtag band of activists and technologists overcame a 90 million lobbying machine to defeat the most serious threat to Internet freedom in memory. The book is a revealing look at how Washington works today and how citizens successfully fought back.Written...
Salma
Filming a Poet in Her Village
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
In this book the Indian poet Salma and filmmaker Kim Longinotto come together to portray Salma’s extraordinary life and the challenges of capturing it in a documentary film.When Salma, a young Muslim girl growing up in a South Indian village, was 13 years old, her family shut her away for...
by Sue Coe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sue Coe’s advocacy of animal rights is unmatched in its eloquence, forcefulness, and lasting impact. She does so with a combination of extraordinary images and few words. In her unstinting insistence on tolerance and love, Coe brings us to a life-affirming philosophy that values compassion over...
Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World
Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
“I am inordinately proud of my travels and at the same time embarrassed by my pride in them. I feel alternately overflowing and empty, replete with gratitude for my good fortune, and abashed at the overentitled, obsessive nature of my need to continue. I feel sometimes like the most interesting...
Mad Science
The Nuclear Power Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"Joe Mangano is the constant, tireless voice that has helped keep me linked to reports from the front lines of the battle to expose the staggering risks to public health posed by nuclear power . . . Joe has been one of the most dedicated, intelligent and even-handed public activists I have ever known....
Cess
A Spokening
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
A list. What could be more basic than a list? And a list by Lish is sure to intrigue. In this, Lish’s latest work, he delivers a characteristic exhibition of his peculiar deformities of candor, obsession, and wit, via two extended “notes” to the reader, including a pages-long list of essential...
Beyond Zero and One
Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Can we build a robot that trips on acid? This is not a frivolous question, according to neuroscientist Andrew Smart. If we can’t, he argues, we haven’t really created artificial intelligence.In an exposition reminiscent of crossover works such as Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fermat’s Last...
Goings
In Thirteen Sittings
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Goings: In Thirteen Sittings is Gordon Lish’s first completely original work in sixteen years, thirteen stories that mark the ongoing vitality of one of the era’s enduring scribes.Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential editors of our era, Gordon Lish has quite simply changed...
Hitler's Girls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Adolf Hitler’s secret mistress, an upstanding member of the British aristocracy, gives birth to a daughter. The child is whisked away at infancy and raised as an orphan. She is protected from the truth concerning her origins, but that doesn’t prevent the remnants of Hitler’s scattered empire...
Istanbul Istanbul
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
“Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.” Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners—Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber, and Uncle Küheylan—sit, awaiting their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not...