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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Fahrenheit 451
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Animal Farm
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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The Communist Manifesto
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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A Christmas Carol
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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An Autobiography
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The Making of the English Working Class
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Brave New World
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Souls of Black Folk
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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Cloud Atlas
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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The Fire Next Time
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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History
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Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
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The Meaning of Marxism
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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
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Intercourse
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
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Pornography: Men Possessing Women
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Confessions
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2
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David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
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The Book Of Ammon
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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The Society of the Spectacle
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
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The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935
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Socialism…Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
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The Jungle
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Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
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Social Justice and the City
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement
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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
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Deterring Democracy
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"Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North Vietnam
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The Poverty of Theory
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What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Johnny Got His Gun
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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State and Revolution
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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Voices from the Catholic Worker
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Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market
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Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
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We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History
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Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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Jesus and the Disinherited
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
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The Call of the Wild
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Literature and Revolution
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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Discourse on Colonialism
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
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Wild Garden: Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
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You Got To Be Kidding: The Cultural Arsonist's Literal Reading of the Bible
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Your Meaning
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The Cave
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Bridges: An Extraordinary Journey of the Heart
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History Yoghurt and the Moon
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Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation
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The True Story of Human Evolutionary Genesis
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Quantum Anthropology: Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective
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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
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Valentio Di’Buondelmonte: A Tragedy in Five Acts
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Republic's Chosen
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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Thief in the Night
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