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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.85
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Howard Blum
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Publisher: Crown
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523097949409041
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Publication Date: 2008-09-16
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.
In American Lightning, acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original “crime of the century”—and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.
With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city’s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America’s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.
Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men—labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times’s fiercely anti-union owner—of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.
While preparation is laid for America’s highest profile trial ever—and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets—two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping filmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.
Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can’t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.24
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Manufacturer: Autonomedia
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hakim Bey
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Publisher: Autonomedia
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.83
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Publication Date: 2003-09-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in academic anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists. Hakim Bey's first book, originally published in 1985, refers in its title to "a mobile or transcient location free of economic and social interference by the State," and through a series of incendiary communiques, short essays, and poetic historical analysis insists on the production of greater autonomy in the present moment, rather than the acceptance of domination in exchange for the promise of some future utopia.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.50
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rudolf Rocker
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Publisher: AK Press
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Edition: 6th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.57
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece as an introduction to the ideals fueling the Spanish social revolution and resistance to capitalism the world over. Within, Rocker offers an introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workers’ movement, and an outline of the syndicalist strategies and tactics embraced at the time (direct action, sabotage and the general strike). Includes a lengthy introduction by Nicholas Walter and a Preface by Noam Chomsky. “[Rocker’s] approach is far from ‘utopian’; this is not an abstract discourse but a call to action.”—Noam Chomsky Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) was a leading figure in the international anarchist movement for over 60 years.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $6.83
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Manufacturer: Feral House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Zerzan
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Publisher: Feral House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: "John Zerzan can now credibly claim the honor of being America's most famous anarchist. His writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious."-Derrick Jensen, Utne Reader The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture-both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions. As John Zerzan writes, "These dire times may yet reveal invigorating new vistas of thought and action. When everything is at stake, all must be confronted and superseded. At this moment, there is the distinct possibility of doing just that." Previous works from John Zerzan include Elements of Refusal, Future Primitive, Against Civilization, Running on Emptiness, and Questioning Technology. He has also contributed to Apocalypse Culture, Telos, and Fifth Estate. An Oregonian with degrees from Stanford University and San Francisco State University, he is an editor of Green Anarchy magazine. Read more at JohnZerzan.net.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.99
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Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Powell
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Publisher: Barricade Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.830973
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Publication Date: 1989-09
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Reading Level: 192
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $13.51
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alexander Berkman
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Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.83092
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Publication Date: 1999-09-30
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Reading Level: 500
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Description: In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as an incitement to revolution. Captured and sentenced to serve a prison term of twenty-two years, Berkman struggled to make sense of the shadowy and brutalized world of the prison—one that hardly conformed to revolutionary expectation.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $15.79
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Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Victor Serge
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Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0841092
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
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Reading Level: 446
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Description: This facsimile edition brings Charles Lamb's critically acclaimed and revered "Elia" essays back into print.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $15.68
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Iain McKay
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Publisher: AK Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 748
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Description: This exhaustive volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, the FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style. Educational and fascinating, An Anarchist FAQ will be referenced again and again. Iain McKay is former editor of Black Flag magazine and is a frequent contributor to Anarcho-Syndicalist Review. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.08
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Murray Bookchin
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Publisher: AK Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.57
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 86
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Description: This book asks—and tries to answer—several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society?
In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, "The Left That Was."
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $13.70
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Murray Bookchin
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Publisher: AK Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 316
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Description: new edition, seminal histroy of Spanish Anarchism
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