🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Maralinga: 4 stars
Maralinga by Garry Hiskey
The British government notoriously conducted a series of atomic bomb tests in South Australia's Maralinga lands during the 1950s and …
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🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Environmental Warfare in Gaza: 4 stars
Environmental Warfare in Gaza by Shourideh C. Molavi
The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts and surveillance technologies. With …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Person X and the Fascists Among Us: 4 stars
Person X and the Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow
The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Ghost Work: 3 stars
Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri, Siddhartha Suri
A startling exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and how to bring it out of the shadows. …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Why You Should Give a Fu*k about Farming: 4 stars
Why You Should Give a Fu*k about Farming by Gabrielle Chan
There is no farmers and others. If you eat or wear clothes, the decisions you make influence farming. ‘Eaters will …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Unmasking Autism: 5 stars
Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated The Feminist and the Sex Offender: 4 stars
The Feminist and the Sex Offender by Erica Meiners, Levine, Judith
In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for …
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis
This "brilliantly conceived" novel imagines a devastating nuclear attack on America and the official government report of the calamity (Eric …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Stasiland: 4 stars
Stasiland by Anna Funder, Anna Funder
Stasiland by Anna Funder is a book published in 2003 about individuals who resisted the East German regime, and others …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Revolution at Point Zero: 5 stars
Revolution at Point Zero by Silvia Federici
Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing on the nature of …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Power Hungry: 3 stars
Power Hungry by Suzanne Cope
Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Lost in Work: 3 stars
Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan
'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For young people …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Less Is More: 5 stars
Less Is More by Jason Hickel
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated How to Stand up to a Dictator: 3 stars
How to Stand up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, …
🌿 (buffy)² 🌿 rated Cultish: 4 stars
Cultish by Amanda Montell
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and …