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The Communist Manifesto
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition... (more)
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The Revolution
A Manifesto
by Ron Paul
This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America . Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document... (more)
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You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have... (more)
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
by David Shields
An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto , his landmark new book, David Shields (author of the New York Times best seller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead ) argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality” precisely because... (more)
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians
A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
by Rob Bell, Don Golden
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.
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Party of One
The Loners' Manifesto
by Anneli S. Rufus
Isaac Newton. Michelangelo. Anne Rice. Barry Bonds. Haruki Murakami. They and countless others belong to a subculture that will never join hands, a group whose voices, by nature, will never form a chorus. They are loners—and they have at least one thing in common: They keep to themselves. And they like it that way. Self-reliant, each loner swims alone through a social world—a world of teams, troops and... (more)
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Vers une architecture
by Le Corbusier
Text: French
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The Culturally Savvy Christian
A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite
by Dick Staub
In The Culturally Savvy Christian - his incisive critique of contemporary culture and religion - Dick Staub concludes that though it is influential, American popular culture is generally superficial (diversionary, mindless, and celebrity-driven) spiritually delusional (moralistic, therapeutic, and deistic) and soulless (sustained not by art, craft, and ideas, but by the mad pursuit of profit - propped up... (more)
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Poems Of Mina Loy
by Mina Loy
A compilation of poetry by the much neglected, early twentieth-century avant-garde poet is accompanied by a concise profile of the enigmatic writer's turbulent life. Reprint.
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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
The second half of the 20th Century witnessed an outburst of theories and manifestoes that explored the possibilities of architecture: it's language, evolution and social relevance. The many 'crises in architecture' and emerging urban and ecological problems questioned the current orthodoxy: Modernism was criticised, questioned and overthrown, only to be extended, subverted and revivified. The result was a cascade... (more)
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I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
by Francis Picabia
"Best of Category", General Trade Nonillustrated, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. and Winner, Jackets and Covers Category, 2007 AAUP Book, Journal, and Jacket Show. Who is with me is against me. —Francis Picabia Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada... (more)
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Clairvaux Manifesto
A Personal Odyssey of Spirituality at Work
by Kirk Bartha
Clairvaux Manifesto: a personal odyssey of spirituality at work invites readers to discover the pioneering spirit of old-world abbeys of prayer and work. Through accounts of spirituality at work in his life, Kirk Bartha highlights the extraordinary things of God amidst the routine. This brings fresh perspective to history and provides insight for followers of Jesus today. Clairvaux Manifesto can be translated... (more)
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MANIFESTO
by Anonymous
A mysteriously "anonymous novel published by dedrabbit International Artist Collectives." The flier included in the pages of the book offers few clues. This handsomely simple book appears to be a 200-page series of passages describinga young person's search for meaning in a fucked up world. Whether these passages are authentic or lifted from the long list of books on its flier is unclear. But this is one... (more)
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A Householder's Guide to the Universe
by Harriet Fasenfest
Nowadays, go local,” organic food,” and sustainability” are on the tip of everyone's tongue. Harriet Fasenfest's A Householder's Guide to the Universe takes up the banner of progressive homemaking and urban farming as a way to confront the political, social, and environmental issues facing the world. While offering plenty of useful advice on how to do common household chores sustainably, Fasenfest goes deeper... (more)
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The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Frederic L. Bender
This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party. It will assist students making their first approach to Marx's thought as well as those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully annotated text of the Manifesto and two introductory sections by Frederic Bender, a... (more)
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Antidisestablishmentarianism
by Michael J Findley, Mary C Findley
The Bible is a Book of Science Secular Humanism is a Religion of Mythology Antidisestablishmentarianism is a word you might have kidded your friends with in your school days. People once thought of it as the longest word in English, but that's probably all the thought you ever gave it. As the title of a book it's a little cumbersome, a little intimidating, except that it's absolutely essential to the discussion... (more)
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Sex Love Liberation: A manifesto for the bold at heart
by Ev'Yan Nasman
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How I Became Stupid
by Martin Page
Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page’s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid —a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award–like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today’s culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him... (more)
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Che Guevara Speaks
Selected Speeches and Writings
by Ernesto Che Guevara
A faithful reflection of Che as he was, or, better, as he developed -- from the preface by Joseph Hansen. Includes works not available elsewhere in English. 2nd Edition
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freak, and the real difference between apples... (more)

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