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The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years have seen an explosion of …
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"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years have seen an explosion of …
Read it twice, didn't land as well for me as Color Of Money or Equal Rites, but it was a decent read. Not my fave of the Discworld books.
Read it twice, didn't land as well for me as Color Of Money or Equal Rites, but it was a decent read. Not my fave of the Discworld books.
Enjoyed this book, look forward to revisiting it and expanding upon it. Meshed well with other ecological and direct democracy stuff I've been learning about.
Enjoyed this book, look forward to revisiting it and expanding upon it. Meshed well with other ecological and direct democracy stuff I've been learning about.

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic …

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
Absolutely upended everything I'd ever been taught about indigenous history on Turtle Island. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Absolutely upended everything I'd ever been taught about indigenous history on Turtle Island. I cannot recommend this book enough.

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …

Douglas Adams for those who may not be familiar with either him or his books writes rather tangentialy than linearly, …

After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin sons from …

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long …