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Gainsborough: Vietnam: Rethinking the State
Book, August, 12 2010
Vietnam: Rethinking the state offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society
Montgomery: Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles
Book, August, 12 2010
David Montgomry, a leading American historian and former CP trade unionist, provides classic historical essays from a shop-floor and syndicalist sort of approach.
Tripathi: Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism
Book, August, 12 2010
How Afghanistan became, and may remain,a safe haven for terrorists
Harman: A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Book, August, 12 2010
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of ...
Weis: The Global Food Economy
Book, August, 11 2010
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
Book, August, 11 2010
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues that the "feminization of poverty" is not a recent development but dates back to colonial times.
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Book, August, 11 2010
Powerful presentation of feminist theory and analysis...
Rowbotham: Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Book, August, 11 2010
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham's A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States is a monumental study--scholarly, readable, well-illustrated, well-indexed--of Western women's experience in the 20th century.
Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
Book, August, 11 2010
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Weinbaum: The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
Book, August, 11 2010
A classic text...
Hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Book, August, 11 2010
In this South End Press classic, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
Tokar: Toward Climate Justice
Book, August, 11 2010
Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies, and dissects the events that shaped the diplom...
Bookchin: Remaking Society
Book, August, 11 2010
Remaking Society is a primer on Murray Bookchin's ideas.
Bramhall: The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee
Book, August, 10 2010
Intense government harassment leads a 54-year old psychiatrist, single mother and community activist to close her 25-year Seattle practice to begin a new life in New Zealand.
Anderson: Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment
Book, August, 10 2010
"A terrific resource. The very essence of the case against genetic engineering--clearly, simply, and authoritatively explained. -- Bob Phelps
Shiva: Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
Book, August, 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: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Book, August, 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: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Book, August, 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: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Book, August, 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.
