The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

6 best books like The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (Peter Linebaugh): The Damnation Game, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States

The Damnation Game

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0425188930

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life’s ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress...

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Author

Catherine Nixey

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.

Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and...

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Author	Virginia Eubanks
ISBN	1250074312

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets...

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Author	Silvia Federici
ISBN	1570270597

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...

Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

Author	Trevor Paglen
ISBN	0525951016

Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition.

This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories,...

The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States

Author	Ward Churchill
ISBN	0896086488

Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears—and suggestions for activism—in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's exposé of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's"...