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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...

In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation...

One hundred floors above Manhattan, a diverse group of guests and gate-crashers come together in a luxurious penthouse. The down-and-out blend seamlessly with the well-to-do. Scammers find themselves...

A Wired Magazine Top Tech Book of 2017 Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive. Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the...

Author: Tiyo Attallah Salah-ElPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Oct 15, 2020Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682193047ISBN-13: 9781682193044

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal...

A deep dive into one of this century's most potent questions: do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it?This compact new edition of a paradigmatic text packs a big and...

The autobiography of visionary and cantankerous publishing legend Barney Rosset--a champion of authors as diverse as Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, and Malcolm X, and a fierce advocate for free...

Published to coincide with the release of Joker: Folie ?agrave; Deux, the sequel to Todd Phillips' iconic blockbuster, this imaginative reading sees Joker as an economic and political allegory,...

At the start of Mark Jacob's remarkable new novel--his first book in thirteen years--thirty-seven-year-old Smith wins a "stash" of diamonds in a poker game. The only catch: he has to find them. A...

Author: Andy MartinPublisher: Or BooksPublication Date: May 07, 2020Number of Pages: 276 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682192318ISBN-13: 9781682192313

The Tale of Ahmed is an epic poem about the dangerous journey of a teenage boy: Ahmed, who travels from Afghanistan across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England. It is written in...

A sparkling new take on an age-old publication: The Other Almanac brings together a stellar group of young writers, artists and activists to pick up themes of environmentalism, gardening, recipes,...

It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His...

52 vignettes contain stories and teachings about Cuong Lu's six years as a prison chaplain in the Netherlands.Author: Cuong Lu, Roshi Joan HalifaxPublisher: Or BooksPublication Date: Apr 02,...

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make...

With Joe Biden stepping back into the national scene, the time is ripe for a close assessment of the administration in which he served as vice-president. The Center Did Not Hold weighs the...

The Compensation BureauAuthor: Ariel DorfmanPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Sep 14, 2021Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1682195007ISBN-13: 9781682195000

Author: Jason BoogPublisher: OR BooksPublication Date: Jul 09, 2020Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1935928910ISBN-13: 9781935928911

The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the...

"In the face of all of the trash that continues to pass for news and analysis of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Shupak deserves immense praise for working to set the record straight."-Middle East Eye...

This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing art and powerful, precise words lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that populate the political landscape of...

You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it's a familiar pop cultural fun house--then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you're actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening,...

Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire...

The plot against Jeremy Corbyn. How the Israel lobby turned anti-Semitism into a devastating political weapon to destroy the left. Investigative journalist Asa Winstanley shows how Labour's crisis of...