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Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
| January 31, 2011
By Vandana Shiva (Editor)Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed is a short, pocket-sized collection that goes to the heart of our existence—what we eat and how we grow it. It covers the questions:
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Big Box Swindle - The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
| June 16, 2010
In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back.
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REWORK: The new business book from 37Signals
| April 4, 2010
Finally, someone's saying what we've all been thinking. Don't throw out all the lessons you've heard from a previous generation of business-makers and owners, just remember you're not running their kind of business. This is the new way of approaching work, the future of entrepreneurship, and a massive call to believe in yourself. Brief, to the point, and fantastically illustrated... with a Sharpie.
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NoZone
| September 19, 2008
NoZone is a graphic-based political zine, created by Nicholas Blechman. Recent issues include "Empire" and "Forecast". http://www.nozonemagazine.com/
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Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
| September 18, 2008
At 292 heavily illustrated pages, CrimethInc.'s flagship book is the perfect size for any knapsack and the perfect reference manual for anyone seeking a life of passion and revolt. AK Press calls it "an underground bestseller," but as it says in the preface:
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
| September 18, 2008
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour?
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No Logo, No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, by Naomi Klein
| September 18, 2008
No Logo uncovers a betrayal of the central promises of the information age: choice, interactivity, and increased freedom. And as job security disappears, the respectful reverence which corporations enjoyed as engines of the economy is also dissipating - as is their protection from worker and citizen rage.
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First Things First Manifesto
| August 11, 2008
An update to the manifesto penned in 1964:"We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it..."