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The People's Republic of Walmart

How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski ...

Series series Jacobin
Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski ... Read more

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Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
... Read more

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The Stripper's Guide to Looking Great Naked

by Jennifer Axen, Leigh Phillips ...

"A new spin on bump and grind . . . relays strippers' advice on everything from makeup and wigs . . . [to] the favorite five cliche costumes." — SFGateStrippers are the experts when it comes to getting naked—especially when the topic is looking your best while wearing the least. Authors Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips are "regular" women who interviewed hundreds of strippers to uncover the real ... Read more

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"A new spin on bump and grind . . . relays strippers' advice on everything from makeup and wigs . . . [to] the favorite five cliche costumes." — SFGateStrippers are the experts when it comes to getting naked—especially when the topic is looking your best while wearing the least. Authors Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips are "regular" women who interviewed hundreds of strippers to uncover the real
... Read more
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts

A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff

by Leigh Phillips ...

Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which is nothing less than a form of ecological austerity. Meanwhile, the back-to-the ... Read more

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Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which is nothing less than a form of ecological austerity. Meanwhile, the back-to-the
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The People's Republic of Walmart

How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 35 min

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be ... Read more

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Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be
... Read more

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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

A Girl's Guide to Guy Stuff

by Jennifer Axen, Leigh Phillips ...

Ladies: Are you sick of sitting on the bench while the men in your life talk Fantasy Football? Have you always wanted to know how to kick down a door? Build a fire? For any gal who's ready to go head-to-head with the guys on their own turf this book is brimming with sassy, do-it-yourself style. It's chock-full of instructions on the manliest of manly arts, from the highbrow (know the difference ... Read more

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Ladies: Are you sick of sitting on the bench while the men in your life talk Fantasy Football? Have you always wanted to know how to kick down a door? Build a fire? For any gal who's ready to go head-to-head with the guys on their own turf this book is brimming with sassy, do-it-yourself style. It's chock-full of instructions on the manliest of manly arts, from the highbrow (know the difference
... Read more

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Four Futures

Life After Capitalism

by Peter Frase ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 36 min

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.Could the current rise of real ... Read more

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Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.Could the current rise of real
... Read more

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Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams ...

Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist RealismNeoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no ... Read more

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This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist RealismNeoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no
... Read more

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Gideon's Promise

A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice

by Jonathan Rapping ...

Narrated by Frank Gerard ...

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based ... Read more

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A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based
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Give Us the Ballot

The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

by Ari Berman ...

Narrated by Tom Zingarelli ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power—over the right to vote, the central pillar of our democracy.A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since ... Read more

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The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power—over the right to vote, the central pillar of our democracy.A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since
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At War With The Wind

The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers

by David Sears ...

Narrated by David Stifel ...

Unabridged

18 hours 44 min

In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At ... Read more

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In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At
... Read more

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The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

by Louis Menand ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

34 hours 55 min

"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile MagazineIn his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize**–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.**The Cold War was not ... Read more

$49.99 USD

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"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile MagazineIn his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize**–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.**The Cold War was not
... Read more

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Doctors from Hell

The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

by Vivien Spitz ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into ... Read more

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This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into
... Read more

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