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  • 我們為什麼要上街頭?

    Shut it down

    Translated by 王曉伯 ...
    Series series REVOLUTION
    【來自激烈與愛的抗爭的故事】★權利,不是天上掉下來的禮物★是前人一步一腳印,篳路藍縷爭取來的二○二○年十二月,本書出版前一個月,前香港眾志祕書長黃之鋒,第四次入獄前為本書寫下推薦:「讀到同樣是活躍社運組織者麗莎‧費安(Lisa Fithian)撰寫的《我們為什麼要上街頭?》,當中不少公民抗命及直接行動的例子,對我而言感受甚深,畢竟她參與過的『占領華爾街』、紐奧良『共同援助網』等社運嘗試其實間接影響了香港雨傘運動及社區運動的組織者……」*麗莎‧費安是人權運動傳奇人物*爭取人權為主題的遊記*擊倒不公不義的動機與思路*行動策略思考的所有知識*社會運動實戰性戰術*社會改革的最佳指導守則*四十年社運、三十個社運實戰工具如果你只是想舉舉標語,不要去找麗莎‧費安,一旦你去找她,得先確定帶了剪開鐵網的剪線鉗--紐約時報... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Laico

    Series series Pamphlet
    Nel centocinquantesimo anniversario della Breccia di Porta Pia, Giuseppe Civati ci accompagna in un viaggio ideale che parte dalla statua di Giordano Bruno, «Luogo simbolo di ogni battaglia libertaria», per condurci alle molte questioni aperte che animano – o dovrebbero animare – il nostro dibattito pubblico: dal fine vita al diritto di scelta delle donne, dai rapporti tra Stato e Chiesa alla ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speak a Word for Freedom

    Women against Slavery

    From the early days of the antislavery movement, when political action by women was frowned upon, British and American women were tireless and uncompromising campaigners. Without their efforts, emancipation would have taken much longer. And the commitment of today's women, who fight against human trafficking and child slavery, descends directly from that of the early female activists. Speak a Word ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Resistance Matters

    On Life in Empire (Revised)

    Series series Selected Essays
    Selected Essays, 2015-2020This is a revised and expanded edition of an earlier publication.The world is fraught, filled with beauty and strife.Don't give up. Life isn't only a state of emergency.This work we're all engaged in with one another? It's a long haul. It always has been.These essays ponder how to live in the midst of social injustice, exhaustion, building, and joy.These essays were... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Ms. Burton

    From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

    Significant media/awards for the hardcover edition: The hardcover edition received significant national print and broadcast attention, from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times (who is likely to write again about the prison paperback edition), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, Democracy Now!, the Daily Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, NPR's Fresh Air and Marketplace. It won the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Outskirts of Hope

    A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

    by Jo Ivester ...
    In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

    In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Trials of Portnoy

    how Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system

    Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia.For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Social Justice

    Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)

    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales – for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public’s perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including television shows like Law and Order, informs the public’s vision. But do age-old symbols, portrayals in the media, and existing systems truly represent justice in all of its nuanced forms, or do we need to think beyond ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • 民主的價碼:一人一票,票票「等值」?

    Le prix de la démocratie

    Translated by 賴盈滿 ...
    Series series NEXT
    一張選票價值幾何?你的一票和大財團的一票,真的「等值」嗎?掌握金錢就是掌握選票──民主始終是撒錢的人贏。«二十一世紀的民主,正走在耗竭的道路上!當金錢成為政治舞台上的要角,民主儼然成為少數人的遊戲。我們的民主制度甚至鞏固了這套惡性循環──最有錢的公民可以藉由私人獻金表達政治偏好,政府還會透過減稅額補助他們;而低下階層的人在其他方面稅負沉重,若想透過少量金錢表達政治偏好,卻是一毛補助都拿不到。這套不平等的制度,讓有能力出錢的人出得最少,窮人替富人買單,若再不採取行動改變現狀,很可能在未來數十年造成更大的不平等,讓社會對政治人物、現有建制與民主遊戲更加反感,導致民粹主義全面失控……。«民主與金錢:真實的危險──我們正目睹代表式民主的敗亡!<p... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy

    In 1988 Burma (now Myanmar) exploded. People rose up against their government in a massive and nationwide expression of outrage at the regime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics. The protests were suppressed by violence on a scale even more brutal than the Chinese suppression of the demonstrations in and around Tiananmen Square the following year. Outrage is the result of many ... Read more

    $7.20 USD

  • "Thou, Dear God"

    Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits

    Series Book 6 - King Legacy
    "Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section with short essays. Included are both personal and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard Bellamy explores the answers to these questions and more in a clear and accessible way. He approaches the subject from a political perspective, to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fact Checking - La realtà dei fatti, la forza delle idee

    Viviamo in un Paese democratico, in uno Stato di diritto? La scienza è oggettiva e persegue il benessere e il progresso dell'umanità? La società moderna è governata ormai da uno stretto rapporto tra politica e scienza, in cui quest'ultima sembra diventata uno strumento di governo. Ma è realmente così? La società moderna ha ancora valori che guidano l'azione politica e il progresso scientifico?Un ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Governance and Advocacy Compass: a Handbook for 2024

    Navigate the complex landscape of global governance with "Global Governance and Advocacy Compass: A Handbook for 2024." Authored by Advocacy Unified Network, this comprehensive guide sheds light on the significant events, policy shifts, and advocacy strategies that defined the year 2024.Dive into the intricate world of international relations, from the reformation of the United Nations Security ... Read more

    $15.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brieven uit de gevangenis

    De 100 meest bijzondere brieven van Mandela gedurende zijn gevangenschapBrieven uit de gevangenis van Nelson Mandela werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 2018, het jaar dat Nelson Mandela 100 jaar zou zijn geworden. Een boek met meer dan 250 brieven die Mandela in 27 jaar gevangenschap schreef. Deze zomer verschijnt een selectie van de meest bijzondere brieven: 100 brieven, waarvan 6 nog niet ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • The Second

    Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

    From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception**.**In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nigger

    The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - with a New Introduction by the Author

    The twentieth anniversary edition of one of the most controversial books ever published on race and language is now more relevant than ever in this season of racial reckoning.In addition to a brave and bracing inquiry into the origins, uses, and impact of the infamous word, this edition features an extensive new introduction that addresses major developments in its evolution during the last two ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Abolish the Monarchy

    Why we should and how we will

    by Graham Smith ...
    **'A crucial, riveting polemic in support of one of the most precious things humanity has built - democracy itself' OWEN JONES'Graham Smith shows what fools our rotten constitution makes of us, with a monarch as emblem of a country beset by nepotism, backhanders, chumocracy and inherited privilege. Read and rebel!' POLLY TOYNBEE**We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:But the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • No Fear

    A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

    As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore, assisting post-apartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations that a multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans mining vanadium—a vital strategic mineral--she found that the EPA was ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christian Citizenship in the Middle East

    Divided Allegiance or Dual Belonging?

    For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one. This collection of essays aims to reconcile this conflict of allegiance by looking at the biblical vision of citizenship and showing that Christians can live and work as citizens of the state ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Micro Democracia

    La Revolución de la Democracia en la Era de la Información

    by Aaron Ran ...
    Translated by Meyling Largaespada ...
    La micro democracia es una solución completa, científica, revolucionaria y viable para implementar la verdadera democracia, la cual maximiza la utilidad y justicia social. Teorías, diseños de sistemas, planes de acción, hojas de ruta, todo esto se encuentra en este libro, para que las personas puedan crear un nuevo mundo. Se origina de la idea de la democracia directa, pero se optimiza y reforma, ... Read more

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  • Viral Justice

    How We Grow the World We Want

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    **From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD