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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as ...

A nation unmade by war

From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity.

After repression

How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitionsIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new constitution, held parliamentary elections, and demo...

Against erasure

Winner of the Palestine Book Awards 2024 Creative Award A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation. This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land ful...

Basic equality

An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychologyWhat makes human beings one another’s equals? That we are "basic equals" has become a bedrock assumption in Western moral and political philosophy. And yet establishi...

Be realistic

Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.

Blood in the face (revised new edition)

A riveting, jaw-dropping view of America's white supremacy movement.

Blood red lines

A riveting and unique look at the connections between Trump, neo-fascists, and billionaire donors pursuing unfettered capitalism.

Breaking the sound barrier

Amy Goodman gives voice to the heroic stories of people the corporate media exclude and ignore.

Censored

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be easily evaded by savvy internet users. In Censored, Marg...

Crowds in american culture, society and politics

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.

Culture and resistance

Culture of terrorism

This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal.

Dear god. dear bones. dear yellow.

Arab womanhood, migration, queerness and Palestine are navigated with striking lyricism and urgency in Noor Hindi’s defiant collection.

Deliverance from slavery

Deliverance from slavery was a central concern of Biblical verse. Boer aims to reclaim this focus for today's struggles.

Demand the impossible!

Demand the Impossible is a manifesto for movement-makers and an invitation to join hands and make history together.

Democracy and truth

"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies—citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle ...

Democracy incorporated

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where econo...

Digital politics, digital histories, digital futures

Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, de...

Dumbing us down - 25th anniversary edition

John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in a changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world o...

Dying for an iphone

A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.

Fighting fascism

Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.

Hannah arendt and isaiah berlin

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) fundamentally di...

Hope in the dark

Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit reminds us that activism has changed the world in remarkable ways.

How propaganda works

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propa...

Humanity

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a p...

Identifying a free society

An important proposal for a rubric by which to measure the freeness of a given society.

Immigration and freedom

A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, howev...

Light in gaza

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

Middle east studies after september 11

A sweeping, essential analysis of how, following 9/11, Middle Eastern Studies was transformed in the service of Empire

Occupying wall street

The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century.

On freedom

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—todayIn this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn’t nearly enough. To be ...

Palestine in a world on fire

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides t...

Palestine: a socialist introduction

This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

Party and class

These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions, or reformist organizations if we are to achieve real change.

Pirates and emperors, old and new

A brilliant account of the workings of state terrorism by the world’s foremost critic of U.S. Imperialism.

Policing the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state’s response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation. Written in the context of the #BlackLivesMatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are p...

Policy capacity, design and the sustainable development goals

Providing a cross-cutting contribution for the achievement of the 2030 Goals, this edited collection offers essential guidance for transforming the SDGs from agenda to reality.

Power and protest

Examining how marginalized groups use their identities, resources, cultural traditions, violence and non-violence to assert power and exert pressure, this volume shines a light on the interaction of these groups with governments, international organizations, businesses and universities.

Propaganda and the public mind

Chomsky offers hope for the future and shows how ordinary citizens, working together, have the power to make change.

Raised to obey

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizensNearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? ...

Reproducing, rethinking, resisting national narratives

This volume explores "schematic narrative templates," a concept by James V. Wertsch, examining how these templates shape national narratives and collective memory. It includes contributions from various disciplines, focusing on nationalism and memory in different cultural contexts.

Righteous transgressions

A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movementsHow do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and wh...

Rights as weapons

An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind’s highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political co...