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  • The Extended Universe

    How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

    A provocative history of Disney’s rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies.In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney’s “imagineers” have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • In Defense of Looting

    A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

    A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.But ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Diversity of Aesthetics

    Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, economic crisis ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    In Defense of Looting

    A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

    Narrated by Caroline Hewitt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.But ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    White Robes and Broken Badges

    Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

    by Joe Moore ...
    Narrated by Roger Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group’s structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal: inciting a second civil war by whatever violent means necessary.“We need you back.”It was a call FBI ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Attention Merchants

    The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

    by Tim Wu ...
    **From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time."Dazzling." —Financial Times**Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The War on the West

    An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?In an era of identity politics, it is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.In The War on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Master Switch

    The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

    by Tim Wu ...
    A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year"A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” —Arianna HuffingtonAnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers—Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T—Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.It is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Primetime Propaganda

    The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV

    by Ben Shapiro ...
    "Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you'll never watch TV the same way again."—Mark LevinMovie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, "One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture, as well as a conscience for his much-maligned generation." With Primetime Propaganda, the syndicated columnist and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oprah Winfrey Mini Biography

    by eBios ...
    Series series Mini Biographies
    Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Move Fast and Break Things

    How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

    A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD