Z Books
Recent Z Books
Leech: Capitalism
Apr 26, 2012
The nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.
Lavalette: Life in the West Bank
Apr 01, 2012
Over 60% of the Palestinians living in the West Bank are under 20 years old. It is from their experiences and stories that this book explores this extraordinarily besieged society and the Palestinians' enduring resistance to a ruthless occupation.
Lavalette: Life in the West Bank
Apr 01, 2012
Over 60% of the Palestinians living in the West Bank are under 20 years old. It is from their experiences and stories that this book explores this extraordinarily besieged society and the Palestinians' enduring resistance to a ruthless occupation.
Leech: The FARC
Jun 09, 2011
Part of Zed's groundbreaking Rebels series, Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures
Lebowitz: The Socialist Alternative
Oct 09, 2010
A new work in a theory of transition to socialism for the twenty-first century.
Levy: The Punishment of Gaza
Sep 26, 2010
The story behind Israel’s assault on Gaza, by acclaimed Ha’aretz journalist.
London: The Iron Heel
Sep 24, 2010
An early dystopian classic concerning the rise of monopoly capitalism and class warfare in the USA.
Laird: The Price of a Bargain
Feb 26, 2010
The story of the rise of the bargain in consumer culture and how dependent they are on: cheap oil, abundant cheap labor, and massive spending.
Le guin: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Oct 01, 2009
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
Leibowitz: Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class
Apr 14, 2009
Leibowitz explores the implications of the book on wage labor that Marx originally intended to write. Focusing on critical assumptions in Capital that were to be removed in (Marx's projected book) Wage-Labour and upon Marx's methodology, Leibowitz stresses the one-sidedness of Marx's Capital and argues that the side of the workers, their goals and their struggles in capitalism have been ignored by a one-sided Marxism characterized by determinism, reductionsm and a silence on human experience. ...Leibowitz explores problems in Marx's wage theory, the place on the workers' state in Marx's theory and the importance of the concept of the collective worker.
Lynd: Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While ...
Apr 01, 2009
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic social change from below, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross deliver a practical guide for making work better while re-invigorating the labor movement.
Lacerda: The Field
Feb 17, 2009
As an investigative journalist, the author present here a description of new paradigm changes by the Galileus of our time, of which academia avoids. As usual, new discoveries are dismissed because they are not the accepted view (dogma) in spite of strong evidence and proof. A good collection of related discoveries that solve many mysteries giving a new and fresh light over the workings of life and its interconnections. It affects Physics, Biology, Psychology and even Religion. At the frontiers of knowledge, Science in it's true spirit of analysis, insight, rigor and coherence. A must read!
Laxer: The Perils of Empire
Apr 21, 2008
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Levene: Surviving Climate Change
Dec 18, 2007
Preface Introduction: Survival Means Renewal, Mark Levene and David Cromwell - Both University of Southampton Part I The Big Picture 1. The Case for Contraction and Convergence, Aubrey Meyer Part II The State and its Apparatus 2. Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report, Dave Webb - Leeds Metropolitan University 3. Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector, Steve Wright - Leeds Metropolitan University 4. Britain, Political Process and the Consequences for Government Action on Climate Change, James Humphreys Part III Critical Players 5. First they Blocked, Now do they Bluff? Corporations respond to Climate Change, Melanie Jarman 6. Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change, David Ballard - University of Bath 7. The Mass Media, Climate Change and how things might be, John Theobald and Marianne McKiggan 8. Having the Information but what do you then do with it? The Scientific and Academic Communities, Jonathan Ward - University of Bristol 9. Asleep on their Watch: Where were the NGOs?, George Marshall Part IV The Challenge Ahead 10.Clearing the Pathways to Transformation, Susan Ballard and David Ballard 11. Averting Climate Change: By Force, Persuasion or Enlightened Self-Interest ? Jim Scott Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? Mayer Hillman - Policy Studies Institute, London Appendix 1: A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate Change, Tim Helweg-Larsen (Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynelleth, Wales) and Jo Abbess Appendix 2: Climate Change campaigns and other relevant links Notes on Contributors Index
Levins: Biology Under the Influence
Dec 17, 2007
Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health
Lusane: African Americans at the Crossroads: The Restructuring of Black Leadership ...
Oct 12, 2007
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