A Radical History of the World

Reducere. The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing--and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nati...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

Reducere. This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant an...

DescriptionDescription: If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "the right" and purpor...

Reducere. Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost politica...

It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half ...

Contributor(s): Author: Arturo EscobarIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at cha...

DescriptionOur urban spaces today struggle to thrive in the face corporate greed, increasing privatization, and rising inequality. Unlocking Sustai...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has i...

Reducere. In this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots ac...

DescriptionThis is a short and trenchant history of the organizations--the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven--that have promoted economic gl...

Reducere. "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian"Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." --...

Reducere. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...

Reducere. What does it mean to believe in God? This question still provokes a recalcitrant world. In spite of the apparent disinterest of our age, the religi...

Reducere. DescriptionThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in t...

DescriptionA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding B...

A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynami...

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Domenico LosurdoTranslator: Gregory ElliottIn this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Dome...

Reducere. First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 17...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

The author of }A People's History Of The Russian Revolution{ presents a tour de force of radical history comparable to Howard Zinn's }A People's Hi...

At the end of the First World War, British imperial power was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Ch...

DescriptionA sweeping, multigenerational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice. As a child living in his fam...

Reducere. Ammiel Alcalay's groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of rel...

Would you like to know how to transition from abuse and trauma into radical aliveness? This book by #1 international bestseller Dr. Lisa Cooney wil...

Reducere. Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like ...

Reducere. What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard pa...

Reducere. A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent developm...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agn s Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Francis ChanLetters to the Church reminds readers how powerful the Church can be and calls this generation to passionately ...

Reducere. In 1877, Ephraim Shay came up with a radical design for a logging locomotive that featured a side-mounted set of cylinders. These drove drive shaft...

The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenom...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us t...

Reducere. Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or getting the world out of us. Many are looking to sp...

Reducere. Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and u...

Reducere. As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The s...

Reducere. A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business th...

DescriptionAt the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Bra...

With austerity cuts to public funding, many contemporary art museums have been forced to scale down their budgets, staff and acquisitions. In Radic...

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people. The world has given us money enough to enable...

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become...

"Joe Hill's influence is everywhere. Without Joe Hill, there's no Woody Guthrie, no Dylan, no Springsteen, no Clash, no Public Enemy, no Minor Thre...

Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19--with C...

Reducere. For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It so...

Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along, " nationally bests...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

Reducere. Public support for the legal right to abortion in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet we're in the midst of an all-out assault on reprodu...

Reducere. Romantic intrigue and electric action fill the gripping sequel to The Tiger at Midnight, a world inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mytho...

Reducere. Description"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn i...

Reducere. Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, writ...

Reducere. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take ...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn to read the Tarot cards with a clearer understanding than has ever been seen in their history. Radical Tarot reaches into new dime...

DescriptionAn updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair Through working at both ...

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in th...

DescriptionIn every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout history the pursuit of strategic commodities has governed world affairs. Centuries ago salt enjoyed a monopoly over food pres...

Reducere. DescriptionA new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has b...

A survey of recent history reveals the gloomy picture of an ongoing series of conflicts, wars, and general turmoil. Consequently, the human emotion...

Reducere. An exciting vision of the future --Michael Eric Dyson Rob Bell's Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your lif...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world...

This introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-ce...

Reducere. Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorf...

Reducere. Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction, the poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winni...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much ...

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 "Greif" (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's "lost" strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built ...

‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted gener...

Reducere. The Jewish People in its very being constitutes a living protest against a world of hatred, violence and war. Radical Then, Radical Now is a popwer...

In this extensively researched ode to scandal, Peter Blecha recounts the travails of musicians who have dared to air "unacceptable" topics. Filled ...

A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with...