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  • The Story of Kadirun

    by Paul Tickell, Adrian Vickers, Marcus Susanto, Jan Lingard, Ian Campbell, Semaoen ...
    Series series Modern Library of Indonesia
    In the early 1910s, Semaoen was sentenced to prison for sedition by the Dutch colonial government. The Story of Kadirun, a semi-autobiographical novel, reveals with honesty and comprehensive insight the unjust treatment towards the indigenous people from a historical perspective. Kadirun’s tale, with its picture of the life of the Javanese during the colonial era, tells the readers what must be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Wretched of the Earth

    by Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    “This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”—Angela DavisThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Vichy Syndrome

    Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Chinese in Indonesia: An English Translation of Hoakiau di Indonesia

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane ...
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) was undoubtedly Indonesia’s most significant novelist and writer. After the 1960 publication of this book, now translated for the first time, Promoedya spent some 20 years in prison often in appalling conditions. The book sets out in the form of nine letters much of the author’s humanist and deeply anti-racialist philosophy as it discussed the history and needs of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Protest

    A New Playbook for Revolution

    by Micah White ...
    Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Black Power

    Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!

    by Richard Wright ...
    Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together in one volume, with an introduction by Cornel West.“The time is ripe to return to [Wright’s] vision and voice in the face of our contemporary catastrophes and hearken to his relentless commitment to freedom and justice for all.” — Cornel West (from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series Cornelia & Michael Bessie
    The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living "in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures."In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the savage past of our species and the remnants of it that seem to regularly erupt in our supposedly advanced and civilized world. Ultimately, she directly addresses the prime ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kingdom in Crisis

    Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

    by Andrew MacGregor Marshall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse. A brilliant book.'Simon Long, The EconomistStruggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Begging to Be Black

    by Ms Antjie Krog ...
    In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog’s experiences as a research fellow in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist

    A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States

    by Nick Middleton ...
    A "fascinating" journey to little-known and contested lands around the globe, from Tibet to the Isle of Man to Elgaland-Vargaland ( Geographical Magazine).What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of fifty states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You’re Not a Country, Africa

    by Pius Adesanmi ...
    In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Pius Adesanmi explores what Africa means to him as an African and as a citizen of the world. Examining the personal and the political, tradition and modernity, custom and culture, Adesanmi grapples with the complexity and contradictions of this vast continent, zooming in most closely on Nigeria, the country of his birth. The inspiration for the title of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD