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Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
I was a vegan for almost 20 years.
I know the reasons that compelled me to embrace an extreme diet, and they are honorable — even noble. Reasons such as justice, compassion and a desperate, all-encompassing longing to set the world right. To save the planet — the last trees bearing witness to ages and the scraps of wilderness still nurturing fading species, silent in their fur and...
Introduction to Civil War
Semiotext(e) have recently published the text "Introduction to Civil War" by the pseudonymous authorial collective Tiqqun. The text is number 4 of the intervention series which has set for its mission the publication of some of the most crucial, critical and concise works in political philosophy and political economy of the past few years, including Christian Marazzi’s "The Violence of...
For the Win
Even though I’ve been involved in at least four union organizing efforts at jobs I have had since I began working in 1971, I have never worked at a union job. In addition, many of the various antiwar and antiracist endeavors I have been involved with have included trying to get unions on board. Having this experience with union activists has helped me stay abreast with the issues faced b...
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Re-imagining our cities is the best chance we have to create prosperity, lower our carbon emissions, and save what’s left of the natural world. Today’s urban sustainability experts widely believe this to be true, yet many still debate how we should go about creating cities that are ecologically and socially sound. Author Matt Hern helps expand the discussion with his new book, Common Ground ...
Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
The contemporary vision of straight edge is a highly westernized one, focusing on plodding metal music and alpha male attitudes, with politics largely subtracted from the equation. This widely-accepted stereotype of straight edge is roundly contradicted by Sober Living For The Revolution. Editor Gabriel Kuhn conducts a series of interviews with a wide spectrum of politicized and intelligent...