Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegrationThe Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today’s Middle East and the devastating role t
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose w
Award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our timesThis is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creat
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between
In A Time to Speak Out, a collection ofstrong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspor
Avital defence of the Enlightenment as a democratic force against stateand corporation and a striking atheist attack on "fundamentalist"atheists such as Richard Dawkins.
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt?
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt?
Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in t
Unraveling the cultural and intellectual landscape of 1920s America. Structures of the Jazz Age charts the twenties cultural landscape populated by critical intellectuals like H.L. Mencken and Irving
The past and future of Black historyIn this information overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Wheth
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s
Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis attempts to answer the question: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?
A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future -- which makes it hard
How a Mexican-American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America’s corrupt asylum processFor decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies an
Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since André Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit
One of the leading historians of the contemporary labor movement uncovers the secrets of its collapse and revival in this follow-up to the acclaimed Workers in a Lean World.
The role of intellectuals in Latin American politics is subject to widely differing interpretations. There are those who point to the stand of many writers in support of the Cuban revolution and agai
