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In this beautiful little book, author Matt Lamothe provides young children with a window into how other kids their age…

This collection of traditional Russian folktales is bursting with whimsy, wonder, drama, and action. Dinara…

A portrait of the hidden patterns in human society visualized through the world of data. Uncover truths about our past,…

While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the…

I Am a Cat, originally written by Soseki Natsume in 1905, is a story intended to reflect on and poke fun at the…

When Pussy riot burst into a Russian cathedral in 2012, their country's leaders weren't ready for their critique, but…

"I have traveled the world in search of trouble," says author David Nott, a trauma surgeon who has volunteered in some…

A huge, compelling collection of almost forty of Rebecca Solnit's political essays of the last decade, ranging from San…

One of the 19th Century's biggest boxing stars wrote this guide to his sport—its history and techniques. Ned Donnelly…

This is George Orwell's first full book. The first part is an account of his days starving in Paris and then working in…

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care…

In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered the apartment that had served for years as a hideaway…

A funny, fascinating history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist; sometimes…

In the early 1920s, a group of Korean student activists in Tokyo got together to form an anarchist group, Futeisha, or…

Ni Una Menos is a women's empowerment movement that began in Argentina and spread across Latin America. Comparable to…

Fermentation fanatics rejoice! From Wild Fermentation to The Art of Fermentation to Fermentation as Metaphor—fans…

On April 25th, 1974, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) of dissident Portuguese Army officers led a military coup,…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

In early-twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to fund their movement.…

This brief but comprehensive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by R. Crumb,…

Modern photography mixed with historical images and representations of death through the eyes of the Paris catacombs as…

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which…

Erik Ruin's homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of…

Crass (1977-1984) was a group of artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that banded together using punk…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New World" to turn…

In April 1921, the Seki Ran Kai (Red Waves Society) was formed with socialism as its goal. It was the first…

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…