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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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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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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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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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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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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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Debt: The First 5000 Years

David Graeber

Anthropologist David Graeber shows readers that for more than 5000 years, since the beginning of agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. He also…

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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

David Graeber

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.

\"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it…

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Why We Read

A sparkling anthology of newly commissioned writing on the joys and rewards of reading non-fiction.

Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure…

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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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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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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …

David Graeber

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it…

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The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

David Wengrow

Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced…

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The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

David Wengrow

Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced…

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Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering

S. David Graber

Bring the tools of hydraulics and pneumatics to bear on key environmental challenges

Hydraulics and pneumatics are essential tools in environmental engineering. Any area of engineering which deals with harnessing…

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

David Graeber

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms?

To answer these questions…

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Direct Action: An Ethnography

David Graeber

A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC

David Wengrow (University College London)

In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, published in 2006, David Wengrow provides an interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state c. 10,000-2,650 BC. His conclusions extend…

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Cultures of Commodity Branding

The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving…

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Cultures of Commodity Branding

The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving…

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What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

David Wengrow (Professor of Comparative Archaeology, University College London)

A vivid new account of the ‘birth of civilization’ in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Utopia of Rules

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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Debt - Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt…

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Debt - Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt…

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Debt - Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt…

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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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