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Revised and updated edition of this award-winning study of debt.

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"A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Ti...

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"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." —bell hooks bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and profes...

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Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and politic...

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The rat race of Wall Street is turned on its head when Bartleby the copier decides that he simply would prefer not to in this absorbing early modernist tale.

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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this ve...

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Paperback edition of the history of bureaucracy, from the author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". A powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, it reveals how bureaucracy shapes our lives in ways we may not eve...

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A close look at the whole Trump phenomenon, using psychological and social science studies, and polling analyses, to understand who, exactly, Donald Trump's followers are. How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, ...

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Award-winning historian Jeff Biggers opens a new window into the hidden treasures of Sardinia in a groundbreaking travel narrative that crisscrosses one of the most enigmatic places in Italy After three decades of living and traveling in Italy, Je...

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"An indispensable must-read. This is THE book to read to understand what’s going on in the cases against Trump.” — Joy Reid, MSNBC News anchor and host of The ReidOut A former prosecutor provides an essential guide to ensuri...

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"A modern-day classic... equally audacious and brilliant."-Ron Charles, Washington Post All is not boding well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, Julius is a source of inspiration for a ...

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A genre-bending memoir that offers fierce and fresh reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism. At the centre is a love-story, between Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is undergoing gender reassignment, while Nelson undergoes t...

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As the world grows increasingly turbulent, war crimes justice is needed more than ever. But it is failing. The International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, the worlds first permanent war crimes court, opened in 2002 but it has jailed just five...

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This short, accessible, and argument-driven book shows the way to 100% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. Most experts agree that we need to get to negative greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by the year 2050 in order to stave off the most cat...

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While Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most discussed artists of all time, it's shocking how little is actually known about him at least, according to most of his biographies. Why did he leave his small hometown? Why didn't he complete so many proj...

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The strange tale of how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last 2 centuries. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two th...

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A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic saint, Simone ...

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In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the "antifa" opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And w...

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What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson...

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The first book to explore the life of Cy Twombly, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history-including his own. Shuttling between his stunning homes in Italy and t...

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Forthcoming from Melville House Books.

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“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction.” - Octavia E. Butler Octavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers ...

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This thrilling critique of the forces viying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about our selves and our world. W...

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This brilliantly realised, morally ambiguous tale of a young writer and his encounter with 'The Master', an accomplished writer whom the young man has long idolised, is a humorous and devastating inquiry into the emotional price that an artist pay...

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A young man too destitute to propose marriage to his beloved finds a morally dubious means of making money by publishing the love letters another woman wrote to him in this deft, psychological portrait of how social status, money, and self-decepti...

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mystery of a terrifying, ancient curse and its deadly ramifications for the Baskerville family in this tale set in the dark and murky English moors. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas incl...

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Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collec...

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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville H...

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Presents a tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne're-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. This work features two of the author's unforgettable characters, the ultra-vivid Cockneys Peachy Carnahan an...

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Features a romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing - and mysterious - hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? This story c...

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