Z Books
Recent Z Books
Baker: Equality
Aug 20, 2010
Co-authors: Kathleen Lynch, Sara Cantillon, Judy Walsh. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, this book it applies a new framework to a wide range of contemporary inequalities.
Ostler: Lakotas and Black Hills
Aug 20, 2010
History of U.S. Government relations with Lakota Sioux and their claim to thee Black Hills.
Arcand: Jaguar and Anteater
Aug 20, 2010
exploration of Western sexuality, its development, and how it compares to various other cultures in the anthropological record.
Gould: The Mismeasure of Man
Aug 20, 2010
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
Kamin: Not In Our Genes
Aug 20, 2010
[A] riproaring dismantling of the recent rise of biological interpretations of why we behave as we do..required reading - Ashley Montagu.
Becker: Indians and Leftists
Aug 20, 2010
In this richly documented account, Becker chronicles a long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the first local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the galvanizing protests of 1990. In so doing, he reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals.
Wolff: Marxian versus Neoclassical
Aug 20, 2010
Wolff and Resnick provide a unique, balanced explication of the differing assumptions, logical structures, and arguments of neoclassical and Marxian economics. They address broader aspects of evaluating or choosing between alternative theories, but their conclusions are nonpolemical. Throughout, math is used simply and sparingly.
Estrada: Tania
Aug 19, 2010
Book Review. Ulises Estrada's Tania Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
Aronowitz: False Promises
Aug 16, 2010
Reprint of classic work on the American Working class and class consciousness... 'False Promises is a classic of its type, and well-known to specialist in labor studies. It is a highly original and bold perspective on American labor, still widely cited in the current literature and still a source of inspiration to many students.'
Gorz: Socialism and Revolution
Aug 16, 2010
Essays on revolution...
Freire: Pedogogy of the Oppressed
Aug 16, 2010
No other text has ever given me a greater understanding of the plight of those oppressed by the 'majority' or dominating populations. My whole understanding of the world and history was turned on its head. I recommend this book to anyone interested in social justice, affirmative action, civil rights, minority struggles...it applies not only to the community in Brazil, but all peoples facing social and economic oppression.
Gorz: Strategy for Labor
Aug 16, 2010
A Program for labor including the idea of non reformist struggles for reforms...
Orwell: Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Aug 16, 2010
Though a work of fiction, this piece is perhaps the best window into the actual life that Orwell lived through. It captures the many subtle ways that money can pervade and poison "middle-class" life; so much so that the actual poverty of middle class life is revealed. Favorite excerpt: "The money god is so cunning. If he only baited his traps with yachts and race-horses, tarts and champagne, how easy it would be to dodge him. It is when he gets at you through your sense of decency that he finds you helpless."
Jensen: Getting Off
Aug 14, 2010
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastating role in defining masculinity.
Jensen: All My Bones Shake
Aug 14, 2010
At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl.
Jensen: The Heart of Whiteness
Aug 14, 2010
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem.
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Aug 14, 2010
French thinker and writer Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the United States of America in the mid-nineteenth century.
Collective: Space for Movement?
Aug 14, 2010
In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Boliviaâ??s first indigenous president called for a World Peopleâ??s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movements to respond where governments and the UN have failed? Was it an attempt to co-opt radical demands? Following the CMPCC in Cochabamba, April 2010, this booklet reflects on the lessons from Bolivia and the role of movements in the fight for climate justice.
