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| author: Derrick Weston Brown, | shelved under: Poetry | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence of urban DC life and redefine personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. A readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective, this work channels everything from hip-hop and Toni Morrison to Snagglepuss and red giants to make way for a poetic eruption of wisdom.
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| author: Paul F. Maul, Crimethinc Workers Collective, CrimethInc. Workers' Collective, | shelved under: Anarchism | | date: 2001 | publisher: Crimethinc Workers Collective | | content type: book | | description: Here is a review from Clamor Magazine. It sums up the general idea of the book pretty well, (and we know better than to try and describe it ourselves): "Less of a novel and more of an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It is the type of book you'd thumb through in the store and actually want to buy (or steal).
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| author: Amin Maalouf; translated by Russell Harris | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1994 | publisher: Abacus | | content type: book | | description: Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone.
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| author: Ben Shephard | shelved under: Mental Health | | date: 2002 | publisher: Pimlico | | content type: book | |
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| author: Margaret Atwood | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: 2008 | publisher: Bloomsbury | | content type: book | | description: In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical, and insightful, "Payback" urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
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| author: Gary Kinsman | shelved under: Women's/ Feminist/ LGBTI History | | date: 1996 | publisher: Black Rose Books | | content type: book | | description: Traces the historical and social roots of contemporary conflicts around sexual relations. History of sexuality and oppression of sexuality.
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| author: Stuart Christie | shelved under: History | | date: 1984 | publisher: Anarchy Magazine/refract publications | | content type: book | | description: The history of neo-fascist terrorist Delle Chiaie is the history of nazism in our world today. Through it we see neo-fascist terrorist organisations in their true role : agents of an inner, oligarchic power sphere which sets itself above all law and morality.
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| author: Tom O' Lincoln | shelved under: Worker/Labour/Communist history | | date: 1985 | publisher: Stained Wattle Press, Sydney | | content type: book | | description: Describes the rise and fall of Australian Communism and the evolution of the Communist party of Australia since WWII.
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| author: Jeanette Winterson | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2008 | publisher: Orlando | | content type: book | | description: "On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade robo-sapian Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet.
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| author: Iain Hampsher-Monk, | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: iley-Blackwel | publisher: | | content type: book | | description: Iain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers).
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