Z Books
Recent Z Books
Smith: Voting in the USA
Sep 03, 2012
Voting in US elections accomplishes exactly the opposite of what most voters want. These essays explain why it is better not to vote than to consent to tyranny.
Smith: Consent To Tyranny: USA Voting
Sep 03, 2012
Voting in US elections accomplishes exactly the opposite of what most voters want. These essays explain why it is better not to vote than to consent to tyranny.
SteveEconomicsKeen: Debunk time
Nov 28, 2011
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Spender: Confronting Managerialism
Sep 01, 2011
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Schram: Making Political Science Matter
Apr 08, 2011
An Inquiry on American political Science.
Street: The Empire's New Clothes
Apr 05, 2011
"The Empire's New Clothes is a hard-hittin, clear-eyed look at the reality of the Democrats in power and the Barack Obama presidency. Anyone who hoped for genuine change, and is disappointed that it has not come since 2008, should read this book and discuss how to rebuild a genuine social movement that end the occupatitons of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the tyrrany of capital over our lives and the planet" - Anthony Arnove
Scipes: Solidarity or Sabotage?
Nov 24, 2010
Examines AFL-CIO foreign policy program from beginnings during the Mexican Revolution to 2007. Provides case studies of operations in Chile (early 1970s), the Philippines (mid-to-late 1980s), and Venezuela (early 2000s). Includes efforts by labor activists to transform into genuine labor internationalism.
Swanson: War Is A Lie
Nov 24, 2010
WAR IS A LIE is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.
Sandhu: Left Wing Theory
Nov 01, 2010
Intellectuals and the People is extensively researched and engages with prominent theorists in order to intervene in contemporary debates about the relation of intellectuals to society. It sets out to demonstrate that discussions of the intellectual and society focus upon the vulnerability or declining authority of the intellectual and overlook the extent to which supposed differences between intellectuals and 'other people' support wider existing social and political inequalities. Angie Sandhu focuses on the implication of power and authority for intellectuals and their work and argues against the notion that intellectual autonomy is beneficial either for intellectuals or society. She places intellectuals in a more constructive and egalitarian relation to 'other people', and concludes by referring to the promising development in Latin America, in particular the Zapatistas, who are challenging inequalities and hierarchies within theory and practice.
Shiva: Staying Alive
Aug 10, 2010
In this pioneering work, Vandana Shiva looks at the history of development and progress, stripping away the neutral language of science to reveal third-world development policy as the global twin of the industrial revolution.
Shiva: Earth Democracy
Aug 10, 2010
Starting in the 16th century with the initial enclosure of the British commons, Shiva reveals how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and privatized.
Shiva: Stolen Harvest
Aug 10, 2010
Vandana Shiva continues her path-breaking work on uncovering the devastating human and environmental impacts of corporate-engineered international trade agreements.
Shiva: Soil Not Oil
Aug 10, 2010
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Shiva: Water Wars
Aug 10, 2010
A world-renowned environmental leader presents an expose of the privatization of water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.
Street: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power
Jul 15, 2010
A sequel to Streetâ??s Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, this new book documents and assesses Obamaâ??s newly emergent record on domestic and foreign politics against his original agenda for change.
Sitrin: Horizontalidad
Apr 13, 2010
Una historia oral de los nuevos movimientos sociales que surgieron en Argentina después de la crisis económica de 2001.
Sitrin: Horizontalism
Apr 13, 2010
An oral history of the popular rebellion and social creation in Argentina after the 2001 economic collapse.
Shah: The Fever
Feb 23, 2010
An urgent, far-reaching examination of one of the deadliest diseases in history. In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of stopping the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a pathogen that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever, journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer those questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we’ve invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wartimes and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria’s jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity. Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and the critically acclaimed author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New Scientist, The Nation, and elsewhere. Available from Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux in July 2010 Available at Amazon.com and elsewhere.
Starr: Proof West Milford Police in NJ USA Tried To Kill Me
Nov 13, 2009
Additional Proof West Milford Police Tried To Kill Me It was in this emergency snow storm in the late 1990s when I was attending William Paterson College in Wayne NJ I was living where this photo was taken on the corners of Route 23 North & Oak Ridge Road in West Milford NJ USA. This was taken on the corner stated where George Struss owns a car lot and rents small apartments. It was during this state of emergency snow storm I had walked out of my apartment next to the bagel store in merely a dress and sweater because the bagel store was right next store to me. It was like walking out my front door into my neighborss but I had made a terrible mistake. I had also placed my house keys and entire key ring in my car to warm it up but I had accidentally locked all my keys into my locked running black car as seen. I also was locked out of my house in this storm. I walked next store to the bagel store to call the West Milford police to help me jimmy my car door open so I could recover my keys and get into both my apartment and car safely. The police came and saw my condition freezing and barely dressed in this storm in which the State of NJ was declared in a “state of emergency.” The West Milford police said they would not belp me and left me freezing in the storm half dead. Someone finally got me help Jill Starr
