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Original in both content and style, Something in the Water is a bleakly funny assemblage of never-before-published short stories and poems from the passionate progressive, and widely-celebrated...

A Public ServiceAuthor: Tim SchwartzPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Jan 06, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192229ISBN-13: 9781682192221

A description from the belly of the beast that is MS-13: the first book to reveal the inner workings of the most violent gang in the world, written by an anthropologist who was there. This short,...

Abolish ICEAuthor: Natascha Elena UhlmannPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: October 01, 2019Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949017214ISBN-13: 9781949017212

Rooted in Coffey's experience as an adoptee, this book is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and...

Author: Theodore HammPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: May 13, 2020Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192407ISBN-13: 9781682192405

Examines the rise of native advertising and content marketing, which disguise advertising as news or editorial content.Author: Mara EinsteinPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Sep 13, 2016Number of...

Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated men and women, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are entangled with the prison system. American consumer lore has long...

CautivosAuthor: Ariel DorfmanPublisher: Or BooksPublication Date: Feb 03, 2020Number of Pages: 198 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192296ISBN-13: 9781682192290

A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant...

When I first committed to three full months in El Salvador, the feeling that I was signing up for the equivalent of marriage and reproduction was assuaged only by the awareness that, come March 2020,...

The Concrete Utopia conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a "backward-looking" endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of...

Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as...

For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word "multiculturalism" is mostly a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a managerial muck of...

Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care. The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the...

Decolonize Self-Care emerges out of a careful exploration of seemingly casual trends on social media, and in the world at large, in which health and wellness had expansive markets. Capitalism itself...

Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book's expert contributors address these and other questions, which have...

Dialogues on ConsciousnessAuthor: Tim Parks, Riccardo ManzottiPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Jan 13, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192245ISBN-13:...

In an accessible yet fastidiously researched intervention Early Detection sets out the urgent necessity of fundamentally re-directing the US's approach to cancer treatment if President Biden's...

Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the WorldAuthor: Bel?n Fern?ndezPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: September 03, 2019Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The hardcover was well-received, and Whitney continues to get interview requests The hardcover was reviewed by Kirkus (starred reviews), Library Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books and more This...

Told through the lives of the American Century's most glamorous and talented dissidents, Flights is the archetypal hero's journey of some eighteen progressives (and one centrist senator) whose...

Mosley critiques both capitalism and socialism, and presents an alternative economic model of his own design.Author: Walter MosleyPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Nov 08, 2016Number of Pages: 128...

A celebrated performance artist's mesmerizing riffs on sex in American politics. Based on her widely praised performance pieceUnicorn Gratitude Mystery ("Wickedly funny," as described byThe New York...

Heaven In DisorderAuthor: Slavoj ZizekPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Dec 14, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192814ISBN-13: 9781682192818

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant,...

In this book the author researches the nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. In seven succinct chapters followed by a meditation on prospects for change, Benjamin shines a...

Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past...

An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into one of the hottest topics of the day, literally and...

In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations...