Or Books: 109 books
by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom fundamentalist Christian sex symbol Republican ideologue fashion icon "maverick" populist. But above all Palin has become one thing: an American obsession that just won't go away. Edited by two senior editors at The Nation magazine this sharp smart...
Inside Iran
The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Medea Benjamin is the author of the insightful and successful Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection.
This book is perhaps the first non-academic look at the history of US and Iranian relations––giving a complex issue an accessible entry point for a general audience.
Lean Out
The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
“Disconcertingly thought-provoking.” —TechCrunch"Nineteen disruptive, disturbing and divergent voices ... an honest portrait of a network of gender-oppressed people leaning every which way." —Feministing"Everyone who hires or manages anyone in tech ought to read the remarkable book...
by Moustafa Bayoumi Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Eastern Mediterranean Monday May 31st 2010 4.30am: Israeli commandos boarding from sea and air attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes nine peace activists are dead...
by Finkelstein,Norman G.
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
ON APRIL 1 2011 in the pages of the Washington Post the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity...
by Chris Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
It's never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one's rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one owns. There's so much of...
What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
the tech revolution is not a complete triumph: here, from a tech insider, is an informed critique of the sharing economy
ammunition for growing number of critics of "disruptive" technology
without store sales, this book has garnered serious attention (and sold more than 2,000...
Beautiful Rising
Creative Resistance from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
**"Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance from across the Global South, making it a crucial resource for change-makers."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Beyond a brilliantly innovative toolkit for making social change, you will find here a 'deep structure'...
Extinction
A Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food...
Strongmen
Trump / Modi / Erdoğan / Duterte / Putin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Five noted writers and thinkers profile five of the world’s leaders. For some of us, these leaders are heroes; for others, villains; for all of us—strongmen.
We’re edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this energetic, focused book,...
by Julian Assange
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.
For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent...
Finks
How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
•A "biography of an idea," in the author's words, that won't go away: that the CIA was as committed to steering our culture as it was to masterminding coups and assassinations for which it is better known.
•Among the key players in this ongoing story are some beloved writers:...
Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit's Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
My Promised Land by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit has been one of the most widely discussed and lavishly praised books about Israel in recent years. It has garnered encomiums from a broad spectrum of influential voices, including Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Jonathan Freedland, Jeffrey Goldberg,...
Women of Resistance
Poems for a New Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
One of only a few feminist poetry anthologies in print
Uniquely intersectional and diverse, with contributors from a wide range of racial, sexual, and gender identities
Topics range from the immediate political climate to sexuality, motherhood, and theories of feminism