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Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.
Body of Art
The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.
The Big Con
A professor of linguistics who specialised in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers. They let him in on not simply their language, but their folkwrys and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty were 'taken off' – i. e. , cheated – of thousands upon thousands of dollars.
American Homo: Community and Perversity
A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society.
Beyond Black and White: From Civil Rights to Barack Obama
Dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time.
If They Come in the Morning… - Voices of Resistance
An account of Angela Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United State.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
Explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of women and Eurocentric standards of beauty, the historical rise of the idea of whiteness, and the abridgement of democracy along race, class, and gender lines.
Woman’s Estate
Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, this is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time.
Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present
A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists’ manifesto-like events, the Dadaists’ cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Brings Lorde’s essential poetry, speeches and essays, including ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, together in one volume for the first time.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
