Books

State Crime

Governments, Violence and Corruption

Penny Green and Tony Ward

Questions the perametres of state crime in all its forms, from corruption and corporate crime to ‘natural’ disasters, torture, war crimes and genocide.

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Overripe Economy

American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy

Alan Nasser

This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism

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A NICK SHARMAN THRILLER - No. 18

Stay Another Day

Mark Timlin

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His Bloody Project

Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2016. A brutal triple murder in a remote crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There’s no question that Macrae landed the savage blows, but what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence? Was he insane? And will he hang?

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Burning Up

A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption

Simon Pirani

A history of the excesses of capitalism's rampant fossil fuel consumption since 1950.

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Guardians of Power

The Myth of the Liberal Media

David Edwards and David Cromwell

'The most important book about journalism I can remember.' John Pilger

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The Rise of Nerd Politics

Digital Activism and Political Change

John Postill

A global anthropology of technology and politics, from WikiLeaks to Podemos.

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Green Books Guides

Eat Well, Waste Less

An A-Z guide to using up leftovers

Bish Muir

Do you have to throw away that single carrot? How can you make that cold chicken tasty? Can you use that yoghurt at the back of the fridge?

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Boomtown

Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.

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Propaganda Blitz

How the Corporate Media Distort Reality

David Edwards and David Cromwell. Foreword by John Pilger

A powerful, forensic critique of the mainstream media in the era of 'Fake News'

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Modern European Thinkers

Pierre Bourdieu

A Critical Introduction

Jeremy F. Lane

A new major critical introduction to Bourdieu, looking at the full range of his work in its historical and intellectual context

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Imaginary Futures

From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

Richard Barbrook

This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.

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