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Facts, Myths, Folklore, & Fables

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My father left home when I was an infant. My one memory of him? My fourth birthday at my grandmother Minnie's house, his mother. He brought me a fuzzy chicken toy, picked me up, stayed for a while and was gone, never to surface again. There went at least one version of my family story.This story could apply to millions of people in this country. Endless discussions have taken place around why and ... Read more

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My father left home when I was an infant. My one memory of him? My fourth birthday at my grandmother Minnie's house, his mother. He brought me a fuzzy chicken toy, picked me up, stayed for a while and was gone, never to surface again. There went at least one version of my family story.This story could apply to millions of people in this country. Endless discussions have taken place around why and
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City of Quartz

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis ...

Series series Essential Mike Davis
This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

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This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this
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Evil Paradises

Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

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A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The ... Read more

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A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The
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From Coconut Trees To Cults

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From Coconut Trees To Cults offers a critical examination of the evolution of religion from a skeptical viewpoint, arguing that religious beliefs and practices are primarily human constructs shaped by psychological, social, and environmental factors rather than divine influence. The author explores the cognitive foundation of religion, suggesting that human brains are wired to seek patterns and ... Read more

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From Coconut Trees To Cults offers a critical examination of the evolution of religion from a skeptical viewpoint, arguing that religious beliefs and practices are primarily human constructs shaped by psychological, social, and environmental factors rather than divine influence. The author explores the cognitive foundation of religion, suggesting that human brains are wired to seek patterns and
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The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

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The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and "its argument is irrefutable" ( The Independent).Hailed by The Nation as a "master of disaster prose," author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in three months. Now, leading ... Read more

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The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and "its argument is irrefutable" ( The Independent).Hailed by The Nation as a "master of disaster prose," author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in three months. Now, leading
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Late Victorian Holocausts

El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

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This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... Read more

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This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they
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Dead Cities

And Other Tales

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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography.In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a ... Read more

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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography.In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a
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Prisoners of the American Dream

Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

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This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist ... Read more

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This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist
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Yes You Can!

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This book offers practical, affordable process improvement strategies tailored specifically for small businesses. It emphasizes that people are the heart of any successful operation and explains how focusing on value-added activities can transform your business into a lean, agile, and customer-responsive enterprise. Without burdening you with costly or complex systems, this guide states that the ... Read more

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This book offers practical, affordable process improvement strategies tailored specifically for small businesses. It emphasizes that people are the heart of any successful operation and explains how focusing on value-added activities can transform your business into a lean, agile, and customer-responsive enterprise. Without burdening you with costly or complex systems, this guide states that the
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Planet of Slums

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The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author)According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically ... Read more

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The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author)According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically
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Set the Night on Fire

L.A. in the Sixties

by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener ...

Los Angeles Times Bestseller**This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes).“Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times“Monumental.” —Guardian**Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social ... Read more

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Los Angeles Times Bestseller**This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes).“Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times“Monumental.” —Guardian**Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social
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Fault Lines In Time

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In a world where the boundaries between reality and the unknown blur, "Fault" Lines In Time" offers a collection of compelling short stories that delve into the supernatural and the mystical. Each tale explores the profound connections between the living and the lost, the ordinary and the extraordinary.In "Ancestors," a long-dead Japanese samurai grandfather rises from the past, confronting the ... Read more

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In a world where the boundaries between reality and the unknown blur, "Fault" Lines In Time" offers a collection of compelling short stories that delve into the supernatural and the mystical. Each tale explores the profound connections between the living and the lost, the ordinary and the extraordinary.In "Ancestors," a long-dead Japanese samurai grandfather rises from the past, confronting the
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