The Battle For Paradise
10 best books like The Battle For Paradise (Naomi Klein): How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, A Fortune for Your Disaster, Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, America: The Farewell Tour, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, The Wire: Truth Be Told, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Author | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
ISBN | 1608468550 |
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Author | David Wallace-Wells |
ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
A Fortune for Your Disaster
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...
Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance
Author | Bernie Sanders |
ISBN | 1250299098 |
"This is not a time for despair. This is not a time for depression. This is a time to stand up and fight back."
I had the opportunity to see Bernie Sanders speak in Pittsburgh this Sunday and so it was terrific timing that the library copy of this e-book became available Saturday night. However,...
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker
The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the...
America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Author | Bill McKibben |
ISBN | 1250178266 |
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
Author | Rafael Alvarez |
ISBN | 0743497325 |
Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series "The Wire," hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." "The New York Times" calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." "Time" declares that "The Wire," "like its underfunded,...
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Author | Bhaskar Sunkara |
ISBN | 1541617398 |
From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today
With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...
Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
Author | Timothy Faust |
ISBN | 1612197167 |
The sun is setting on America's half-century of punishing the sick, and this book promises a bright new dawn for us all.
Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already...