Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
10 best books like Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Mike Davis): ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 1, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward, The Iron King, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, The Death of the Liberal Class, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, La Disparition de Josef Mengele, Bookshelf
| Author | Hitoshi Ashinano |
| ISBN | 4063210502 |
One of the most amazing views of the end of the world ever. In a futuristic japan, Alpha the robot waits for her master at the Cafe Alpha. Japan is dying: the roads are crumbling, the sea is devouring the land, people are few and far between. Robots are turning feral, and the people are abandoning the country...
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant...
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis—and suffering the effects of her illness throughout...
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
| Author | Gemma Hartley |
| ISBN | 0062855980 |
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all.
Day in, day out, women anticipate and...
The Iron King - Philip the Fair - is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers...
| Author | Henry A. Giroux |
| ISBN | 1433112264 |
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death...
The Death of the Liberal Class
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1568586442 |
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Aaron Bastani |
| ISBN | 1786632624 |
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
La Disparition de Josef Mengele
1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine.
Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tortionnaire à Auschwitz croit pouvoir s’inventer une nouvelle vie à Buenos Aires. L’Argentine de Peron est bienveillante, le monde entier veut oublier les crimes nazis. Mais la traque...
| Author | Lydia Pyne |
| ISBN | 1501307320 |
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library...
