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Monday, July 29, 2013

Tom Reiss – The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival, and the real Count of Monte Cristo – General Alexandre Dumas.

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Almost nobody will know however that the stories that inspired the often unbelievable, adventures The Three Musketeers or The Count of M...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Bruce Neuburger - Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California

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While in part biography, Bruce Neuburger's Lettuce Wars is really a history of life and work for agricultural labourers in California i...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Neil Smith - Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space

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Neil Smith's Uneven Development is a classic work of Marxist geography that deserves to be read by everyone trying to understand the w...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain

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Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus  is a short, popular introduction to the history of humans living in the region that we now know as th...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Larry Niven - Destiny's Road

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Destiny's Road  is a return to a science fiction theme that made Larry Niven famous. Like in his classic  Ringworld series, the hero of ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Anna Minton - Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City

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Ground Control  is an excellent study of the modern urban space, and the way that neo-liberal politics, post Margaret Thatcher have shaped o...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

John Wyndham - Web

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John Wyndham is best known for three superb science fiction novels, The Day of the Triffids , The Kraken  Wakes and The Chrysalids. He is...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

John Reader - Cities

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Çatal Hüyük a large Turkish neolithic site has been described as the world's first city. Stretching back over 9000 years, at times up t...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Leo Hollis - Cities are Good for You

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Marx and Engels argued that a prerequisite of capitalism was the displacement of people from rural areas into towns and cities. This separat...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

John Bellamy Foster - Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

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Published in 2000 John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology was and is an extremely important work. It reasserted a crucial element of ...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

David Harvey - Spaces of Global Capitalism

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This collection of short essays by David Harvey begins with an essay on Neo-Liberalism and the Restoration of Class Power.   This a very cle...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Tony Cliff - Trotsky 1923-1927: Fighting the Rising Stalinist Bureaucracy

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Of the four volumes of Tony Cliff's biography of Leon Trotsky, I suspect that this one was the hardest to write and it may well be the...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie

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Warning Spoilers Jamrach's Menagerie begins with a scene only slightly surreal in its content as our hero Jaffy Brown, aged 8, is nea...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Christopher Empson - The Far Horizons: Thirty Years Among the Gauchos of Uruguay

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In many ways Christopher Empson led a fairy-tale life. As a young boy, he had listened to his father's tales of his adventures in far of...
Monday, June 10, 2013

William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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William Cronon's history of Chicago is a brilliant ecological history that puts the development of capitalism at the heart of the story ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Naomi Mitchison - Memoirs of a Spacewoman

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Naomi Mitchison seems to have led an extraordinary life. Born into an English establishment family, she was the younger sister of the commun...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

E.E.Evans-Pritchard - Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer

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Before reading this review, I would encourage you to read my review of Evans-Pritchard's earlier book  The Nuer:   A Description of the...