Z Books
Recent Z Books
Everton: The School Issue
Apr 25, 2011
Issue #2 of The Working Stiff Review. Link to it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58058633@N08/sets/72157626581122438/
Elmi: Understanding the Somalia Conflagration
Nov 07, 2010
Somalia has been devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, and it has long been without a central government. Against this background of violence, Somali academic Afyare Abdi Elmi, attempts to explain the multiple dimensions of the conflict and find a peace-building consensus Somalia is a failed state and a Muslim state. This combination means the West assumes that it will become a breeding ground for extremism. The country regularly hits the headlines as a piracy hotspot. This combination of internal division and outside interference makes for an intensely hostile landscape. Elmi shows that only by addressing the problem of the statelessness in the country can the long process of peace begin. He highlights clan identities, Islam and other countries in the region as the key elements in any peace-building effort. This unique account from an author who truly understands Somalia should be required reading for students and academics of international relations and peace / conflict studies.
Estrada: Tania
Aug 19, 2010
Book Review. Ulises Estrada's Tania Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good
Aug 11, 2010
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Ehrenreich: Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the ...
Jan 01, 2010
This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA.
Elsheikh: Darfur: Domesticating Coloniality: The Failure of the Nation-state Model in ...
Nov 14, 2009
This book argues that in order to understand the Darfur conflict, examination of the State formation in the context of colonial effects is important. Further, it argues that Darfur crisis in itself illustrates the failure of the Sudanese elite's ideology, and the colonial Eurocentric model of nation building that is in place since independence
Estrin: Arnold Hitler
Nov 07, 2009
Arnold, growing up, meets racism, antisemitism, and the great mystery of his name.
Estrin: Lamentations of JM
Nov 07, 2009
Julius tries to escape from the conspiracy behind the current Rapture. He can run, but he can't hide from his own doing.
Estrin: SKULK
Nov 06, 2009
This may be only comic -- i.e. comical -- novel written about 9/11. It has its raison d'etre.
Estrin: The Annotated Nose
Nov 06, 2009
A comic exploration of "the contemporary plague" of having one's scripts written by others.
Estrin: The Good Doctor Guillotin
Nov 06, 2009
A contemporary meditation on the first use of the guillotine in the French Revolution, intercut with essays on capital punishment and violence.
Eiglad: Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin
Jun 11, 2008
none
Earp: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the ...
Mar 16, 2008
Patrick D. Goonan "www.meaningful-life.us" "Integral Spirituality lays out a worldview that tries to encompass and take whatever is of value from as many worldviews as possible. It assumes that no particular position is completely wrong and looks for patterns of meaning across the world's wisdom traditions. Anyone familiar with Wilber will already know this, but for those new to him this point may be useful to mention."
Earp: Feminist Politics And Human Nature
Jan 16, 2008
Feminist Politics and Human Nature by Alison Jaggar
Earp: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
Jan 16, 2008
Ellen Willis was a Village Voice columnist and self-described anti-authoritarian democratic socialist and coiner of the term "pro-sex feminism." This is a collection of her essays during the Reagan era.
Earp: Religion is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our ...
Jan 16, 2008
"This book is an important step toward the naturalistic, hence truly general theory of religion. It harmonizes contemporary scientific understanding of the origin of human nature with a positive view of the centrality of religion in culture."—Edward O. Wilson, university research professor, emeritus, Harvard University
Earp: Prophetic Fragments
Jan 15, 2008
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture by Cornel West
Erdrich: Birchbark House, The
Dec 20, 2007
A year in the life of an Anishnabe young girl and her family around the latter half of the 1800s on an island in Lake Superior.
