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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber

A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber, David Wengrow

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history

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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire

David Graeber

Graeber, the internationally renowned anthropological theorist applies anthropoligical theory to capitalism and its opponents.

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Cities Made Differently

David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.

What makes a city a city? Who…

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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

David Graeber

Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it

Back in 1930…

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An Analysis of David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Hakemy Sulaiman

Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16. He became an anthropology professor, and his early…

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The Utopia Of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

From the author of the international bestseller Debt- The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives

Where does the desire for endless rules…

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber

A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything

The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie…

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing…

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As If Already Free

A new look at a brilliant radical legacy

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L'anarchie - pour ainsi dire: Conversations avec Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky et Assia Turquier Zauberman

David Graeber

David Graeber n'est pas seulement l'un des plus importants penseurs vivants. Il est aussi l'un des plus influents, mais, au contraire de bien d'intellectuels
engages , l'un des tres rares…

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Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman

David Graeber

David Graeber is not only one of today’s most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who…

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Revolutions In Reverse: Essays On Politics, Violence, Art, And Imagination

David Graeber

David Graeber surveys the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places.

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The Utopia Of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

A follow-up to David Graeber’s Debt- The First 5,000 Years

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much…

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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

David Graeber

From small beginnings its demonstrations spread across the world to cities like Cairo, Athens, Barcelona and London and gave a glimpse of a new way. This book looks at the…

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Direct Action: An Ethnography

David Graeber

A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.

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Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar

David Graeber

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required…

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber

"The final book from David Graeber, the iconic intellectual, activist, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything"--

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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

David Graeber

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized…

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

A powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences. Gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work…

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Summary of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: Conversation Starters

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: Conversation Starters

Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow…

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber, David Wengrow

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber,David Wengrow

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of…

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber,David Wengrow

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of…

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Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society

Provocative collection of essays by writers from the 19th century through to today, dissecting work, its form under capitalism and the possibilities for an alternative society producing for need rather…

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Stone Age Economics

Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

A classic study of anthropological economics, which tackles the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively.

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Stone Age Economics

Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

A classic study of anthropological economics, which tackles the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively.

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On Kings

David Graeber,Marshall Sahlins,David Graeber

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of…

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Debt, 10th Anniversary Edition: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

First published in hardcover in May 2011.

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Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering

S David Graber

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Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings

Abdullah OEcalan

This manifesto offers the essence of OEcalan’s ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. OEcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself…

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Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization

A militant collection of 20 essays that explore a broad range of topics such as radical political theory and social change. Also provides useful tips for conducting research in radical…

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Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings

Abdullah Ocalan

This manifesto offers the essence of OEcalan’s ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. OEcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself…

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The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

Carlo Severi,Janet Lloyd,David Graeber

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author unfolds fresh approaches to research in the anthropology of ritual…

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Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

Peter Kropotkin

One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned…

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Building Free Life: Dialogues with oecalan

David Graeber,John Holloway,Antonio Negri

A testament to resilience of thought, and a searchlight for freedom.

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Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

Peter Kropotkin

One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned…

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The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual

Andrew Ross,David Graeber,George Caffentzis,Amin Husain,Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU, Steinhardt, USA)

Over the last thirty years, as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than doubled. Increasingly, we are forced to take on debt to meet our…

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Industrial Revolution Workbook, Grades 6 - 12

David Graber

The 96-page Mark Twain Industrial Revolution Workbook for middle and upper grades provides students with background information on the key innovations, inventors, and leaders in the Industrial Revolution.

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Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar

This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and…

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Applications of Topic Models

Jordan Boyd-Graber,Yuening Hu,David Minmo

Applications of Topic Models describes the recent academic and industrial applications of topic models with the goal of launching a young researcher capable of building their own applications of topic…

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Reinventing Nature?: Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction

How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be reinvented through theme parks…

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The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898

Brings together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine the role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the 19th…

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The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898

Brings together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine the role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the 19th…

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At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change?

A powerful collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music…

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