Z Books
Recent Z Books
Adams: Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
Apr 01, 2009
A classic anti-colonial text by radical scholar and Red Power movement veteran Howard Adams.
Albert: Remembering Tomorrow
Aug 31, 2008
In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on Boston campuses, or the challenges of creating living, breathing alternative social models, Albert brings a keen and unwavering sense of justice to his work, pointing the way forward for the next generation.
Albert: Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Aug 19, 2008
“What do you want?” is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: “Participatory Economics” — “Parecon” for short — a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives.
Administrator: The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular Assembly
Dec 25, 2007
A first hand account of the extraordinary happenings in Oaxaca Mexico where for more than five months, in the summer of 2006, the people governed.
Administrator: How To
Dec 18, 2007
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Administrator: Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in ...
Dec 17, 2007
Within the global system of national states, borders do not affect everyone similarly. For a small, select group they are mere formalities. Business people, government officials, certain states' armed forces, tourists, and the personnel of legitimated international governmental and non-governmental organizations, for instance, traverse them practically at will and with very little thought. On the other hand, borders never leave others alone. In particular, for people assigned a 'migrant worker' or 'illegal' status in the countries in which they live, work, and sometimes die, borders follow them to school, to work; indeed they encounter borders in every aspect of their lives...
Administrator: Growth Fetish
Dec 15, 2007
From Wikipedia: The thesis of the book is that the policies of unfettered capitalism pursued by the west for the last 50 years has largely failed, since the underlying purpose of the creation of wealth is happiness, and Hamilton contends that people in general are no happier now than 50 years ago, despite the huge increase in personal wealth. In fact, he suggests that the reverse is true. He states that the pursuit of growth has become a fetish, in that it is seen as a universal magic cure for all of society's ills. Hamilton also proposes that the pursuit of growth has been at a tremendous cost in terms of the environment, erosion of democracy, and the values of society as a whole, as well as not delivering the hoped for increases in personal happiness. One result is that we, as a society, have become obsessed with materialism and consumerism.
Adamovsky: Beyond Old Left: Six Essays for a New Anti-Capitalism
Dec 08, 2007
Contents: Part One: Left Culture of the Present Time/Left Culture Worn Out, 1. For an Ethics of Radical Equality...
Ali: 1968 and After
Oct 12, 2007
One of the most famous radical leaders of his time recreates and evokes through personal experience a story that runs through the great focal points of the '60s mood: Vietnam, Che Guevara's murder in Bolivia, and 1968 Paris. Major players in this memoir include Malcolm X, Henry Kissinger, John Lennon, and Bertrand Russell.
Albert: What Is to Be Undone: A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of ...
Oct 12, 2007
What Is to Be Undone: A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classical Left Ideologies (An Extending Horizons Book)
Ali: A Sultan in Palermo (Islam Quintet 4)
Oct 12, 2007
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Achebe: African Short Stories (African Writers Series)
Oct 12, 2007
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Atwood: Alias Grace
Oct 12, 2007
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Ali: An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family
Oct 12, 2007
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Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah
Oct 12, 2007
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Administrator: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Oct 12, 2007
In her latest book, award-winning scientist and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms, far from being socially useful, are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature." "In the era of genetic engineering and patents, life itself is being colonized," says Shiva. She describes the hidden history of genetically engineered organisms, from Herman the transgenic dairy bull, to Tracy, the genetically engineered sheep that "lays golden eggs." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ali: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq
Oct 12, 2007
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Ahmad: Confronting Empire
Oct 12, 2007
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