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This is George Orwell's first full book. The first part is an account of his days starving in Paris and then working in…

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care…

In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered the apartment that had served for years as a hideaway…

A funny, fascinating history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist; sometimes…

In the early 1920s, a group of Korean student activists in Tokyo got together to form an anarchist group, Futeisha, or…

Ni Una Menos is a women's empowerment movement that began in Argentina and spread across Latin America. Comparable to…

Fermentation fanatics rejoice! From Wild Fermentation to The Art of Fermentation to Fermentation as Metaphor—fans…

On April 25th, 1974, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) of dissident Portuguese Army officers led a military coup,…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

In early-twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to fund their movement.…

This brief but comprehensive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by R. Crumb,…

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which…

Erik Ruin's homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of…

Crass (1977-1984) was a group of artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that banded together using punk…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

An illustrated guide to the history of heavy metal. This book is filled with information about the various sub-genres of…

If you didn't know, Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists…

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New World" to turn…

In April 1921, the Seki Ran Kai (Red Waves Society) was formed with socialism as its goal. It was the first…

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…

Yokai the trickster, Kappa sprites, Baku the dream eater. These are just a few of the Japanese mythical creatures that…

SELF-ish is a trans memoir about Chloe's remarkable life, from her childhood in a military family, her architectural…

Dressed in black, masked, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Bloc tactics have been transformed…

This graphic novelette illustrates the early years of C.L.R. James, the son of a family of teachers and in later years…

Pirates, Olympic skiiers, French revolutionaries. What do all of these have in common? If your guess was that each…

During the bloody Third Reich, Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds—especially those…

This is a story about living without a safety net and getting away with it. Teenage punk rock milkman Ross Lomas…

Lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call…