Recent Books Reviews-
- Saturday, Apr 30, 2011
Book Review Book review of Sidney Harring, White Man's Law (UTP, 1998). -
- Friday, Mar 25, 2011
Book Review Review of Cindy Milstein's Anarchism and Its Aspirations. -
- Friday, Mar 11, 2011
Book Review Standard textbooks use a method that eschews the most elementary logic. -
- Thursday, Nov 25, 2010
Book Review David Swanson’s new book refutes all the arguments used to justify wars, and is highly recommended for both general audiences and experienced activists. -
- Wednesday, Nov 03, 2010
Book Review Bombing from the air makes war seem easy, effective, and bloodless—at least to those of us far from the ground zeroes. -
- Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
Book Review Review of Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction -
- Monday, Aug 10, 2009
Book Review The book follows the paper trail that led to abuses during the "war on terror". -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Book Review Greg Wilpert's book is important: important not only as an account of developments in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez between 1999-2007, but as a “critical interrogation†of Chávez' “socialism of the 21st Century,†which should make it impo... -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
Book Review For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which intern... -
- Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009
Book Review New book by Staughton Lynd Daniel Gross... -
- Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009
Book Review Book review of A People's History of American Empire, a Graphic Adaption by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle. -
- Thursday, Feb 26, 2009
Book Review Mexico Unconquered starts off with an engaging people’s history of Mexico. Gibler guides the reader through the country’s various presidencies and popular uprisings. From Oaxaca, Gibler offers a first hand account of the incredible teachers’... -
- Monday, Feb 16, 2009
Book Review What does it take to make a U.S. president lead effectively in a crisis? Turning to the past can help to answer the question. -
- Monday, Feb 02, 2009
Book Review Real Utopia is a wide-ranging book that can deliver for the open-minded reader. It relates ideas and actions that develop naturally out of commonly held values, but that can still bring surprise, the shock of revelation, the rearrangement of famil... -
- Saturday, Dec 27, 2008
Book Review An extended review... -
- Saturday, Oct 25, 2008
Book Review Few books inspire not only imagination but also the desire for a new and better world. The compilation of essays Chris Spannos edited in Real Utopia achieves just that. -
- Saturday, Sep 20, 2008
Book Review Schechter's book is timely, important, and frightening. He does a masterful job deconstructing a complicated subject. One covered up in the mainstream. Its dark side papered over suppressed. -
- Thursday, Sep 11, 2008
Book Review Throughout the past eight years of the Bush administration, North and South America have politically and economically been heading in opposite directions. While Bush waged wars, curtailed civil liberties and spread neoliberalism, South Americans s... -
- Saturday, Aug 16, 2008
Book Review Since the arrival of Hugo Chavez on the Venezuelan scene—and later, for the left and the right, on the world scene—he’s been the source of considerable interest. Is he a new caudillo in the Latin American style, perhaps a reincarnation of Argenti... -
- Friday, Jun 27, 2008
Book Review Gregory Wilpert has pulled off a triumph on two fronts with his new book on the Bolivarian Revolution, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power. Most obviously, Wilpert's book — in both its scope and (sometimes almost maddening) objectivity — is the mos... -
- Monday, Apr 21, 2008
Book Review According to the South African Sunday Times, the World Bank and IMF have declared an international food emergency. However, the Sunday Times does not trace the origins of the present food crisis. For that kind of analysis, one must turn to the bo... -
- Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
Book Review Meet Jesus Iowa. He's a teen from Oaxaca whose family moves to a small Iowa town. Athlete and worker, Jesus leaves his home in the U.S. heartland after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast. That move partly heats up his community's ... - All Recent Books Reviews
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Comments On Books Reviews-
- Friday, Mar 30, 2012
Forum Post Brian
Thank you for your excellent comment. Arundhati Roy's most recent book, Broken Republic, is to the usual excellent standard; I would recommend it.
http://www.zcommunications.org/book-review-broken-republic-three-essays-arundhati-... -
- Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012
Forum Post Arundhati Roy's treatment of Samuel Huntingdon on the US invasion and bombing of South Vietnam as "urbanisation" reminds me of Orwell's 1946 "Politics and The English Language." Christopher Lasch mentions it in his book... -
- Friday, Mar 25, 2011
Forum Post The small anarchist contingent here is young, and nihilistic. Mostly seem to have personal issues about authority they need to transfer. Very life-style oriented and not super articulate so it is good to hear about some work going into theor... -
- Wednesday, Nov 03, 2010
Forum Post As a Wobbly and a Marxist I am aware of how difficult this "synthesis" truly is. Within each philosophical tradition, an excess of tendencies can dilute theory into a weak lemonaid with few lemons.
Try to synthesize a vast m... Forum Post Haha, good point! Ok, perhaps I'll see if I can do that over winter break. No promises, tho. xo. Forum Post Thanks, Andrej. I would love to review Black Flame-- I know Deric and Nate, both from WSA, have reviewed it already, tho. Forum Post good work. thanks for the review abbey. i agree with most of it. you should probably take a stab at black flame too. a good constructive review of that book is very much needed. ithis is one of the few serious and engaging anarchist book rev... Forum Post A very good man, Bob Kinsey, whom I've known and respected for his civic leadership and integrity ran for the U.S. Senate as a Green Party candidate. He ran two years ago and garnered 50,000 votes. Of course he lost yesterday... -
- Sunday, Oct 17, 2010
Forum Post Hi! First of all I do not read Molière anymore indeed, sorry.
As for the group, you just have to find us in the zspace groups we are the Irps.
And yes, what you presented is exactly the kind of books we would like to review. In fact the gre... -
- Saturday, Oct 16, 2010
Forum Post David,
Thanks for your response again.
I'll provide some more background on the Shakespeare quotation. As you know, Caesar was assassinated by Brutus, Cassius and other 'high-minded' Roman nobles looking to keep t... -
- Friday, Oct 15, 2010
Forum Post Lol!
Happened to me yesterday. I had to repeat three times the same really dull but long message to a friend of mine. On the forth attempt (I have an Ipad which makes those things happen easily) I probably wrote the angriest message I will ever w... Forum Post
David,
After reviewing Chang's book, I agree that I overstated the argument that he made regarding protectionist policies and their design to benefit the citizenry. That's what I get for writing without reviewing first.&... -
- Thursday, Oct 14, 2010
Forum Post Hi Quiz,
It is both very interesting to hear such an enlightened comment and also nice to hear from a good friend!
Although this might not be the place, first I should apologize for not writing any emails to tell how I've been. I did get the... Forum Post David,
It was nice to read your thoughts about Chang's book. When I read the book a couple of years ago, I liked his explanation of how protectionism worked and how it continues to work for many countries who are concerned with b... - All Comments On Books Reviews
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