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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

Enzo Traverso

312 pages • hardcover • 2017

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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • hardcover • 2020

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

558 pages • hardcover • 2006

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Dean Spade

152 pages • paperback • 2020

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Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon

Toward the African Revolution

Frantz Fanon

208 pages • paperback • 1964

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The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

224 pages • digital • 1903 user-added

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

498 pages • paperback • 1997

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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003

William Blum

500 pages • paperback • 1995

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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

A Brief History Series #2

Yuval Noah Harari

537 pages • digital • 2015 user-added

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Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Robert Dreyfuss

388 pages • paperback • 2005

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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Hot Zone

Dark Biology #01

Richard Preston

368 pages • paperback • 1994

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

704 pages • hardcover • 2015

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • hardcover • 2013

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The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

512 pages • paperback • 1973

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