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1.

Wave Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast
Text by Mimi Koehl. Photographs by Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld
published by University of California Press

Revealing the rich variety of habitats woven into what may at first look like a fairly uniform environment, the book, an effective and beautiful tool for learning about the edge of oceans everywhere, opens our eyes to the wonders of rocky shores and introduces a whole new way of looking at the natural world.

2.

The Totality for Kids
by Joshua Clover
published by University of California Press

Political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce and escape within a welter of unmoored allusions, encounters, citations, and histories, the dreams possible within the modern's excess of signification--as if to return revolutionary possibility to the regime of information by singing it its own song.

3.

Rightful Resistance in Rural China
by Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li
published by Cambridge University Press

As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention.

4.

Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
by Susan Krieger

Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight.

5.

The Parallax View
by Slavoj Zizek
published by The MIT Press

The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work.

6.

Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis
by Mary Felstiner
published by University of Nebraska Press

Part memoir, part medical and social history, Out of Joint folds the author’s private experience into far-reaching investigations of a socially hidden ailment and of any chronic condition—how to handle love, work, sexuality, fatigue, betrayal, pain, time, mortality, rights, myths, and memory.

7.

Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis
published by Verso

A celebrated urban theorist raises the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.

8.

Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson
published by University of Wisconsin Press

With nearly a hundred selections by dozens of authors, Kaiso! provides invaluable insight into the life and work of this pioneering anthropologist and performer and is certain to become an essential resource for scholars and general readers interested in social anthropology, dance history, African American studies, or Katherine Dunham herself.

9.

Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders
by John Hart
Photographs by Nancy Kittle
published by Sierra Club Books

The book offers glimpses into the lives of a generation of environmental leaders - including David Brower, Ike Livermore, Margaret Owings, and Edgar and Peggy Wayburn - who were born before World War II and who had made their commitment to the conservation cause well before the first Earth Day in 1970.

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Afflicted Powers
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
by Retort

This book attempts to rethink certain key aspects of the current global struggle within this overall perspective, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions.