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21 Years of Good Trouble: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler

by Julia Alekseyeva, Liz Baillie, Alexander Barrett, Nate Beaty, Joe Biel, Elly Blue, Moe Bowstern, Kyle Bravo, Raleigh Briggs, Bill Brown, Al Burian, Ethan Clark, Andy Cornell, Ken Dahl, Bill Daniel, Holly Davis, Bert Davis, Stephen Duncombe, Nicole Georges, Steve Gevurtz, Pete Glanting, Cecilia Granata, Shawn Granton, Urban Hermitt, Asbjorn Intonsus, John Isaacson, Shelley Lynn Jackson, Sandor Ellix Katz, Cynthia Marts, Mia Partlow & Michael Hoerger, Tom Neely, Joshua Ploeg, Nate Powell, Jesse Reklaw, Cristy Road, Dave Roche, Keith Rosson and Jim Rugg

To celebrate our twenty first anniversary, we put together this compilation of work from our authors and artists, ...

American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History

by Steven Blush

Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The ...

Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure

by Cindy Crabb

Living in the margins of a culture she never felt comfortable in, Cindy Crabb touches on her experiences with feminism, ...

Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career

by Jessica Hagy and Jason Oberholtzer

To survive in today's gig economy, you must be a mover, a shaker, a doer, and a maker. In The Hustle Economy, we give ...

Corita Kent poster (Power Up)

by Shannon Gerard and Mary Tremonte

Power Up! Corita Kent was a radical educator, silkscreen printing pop artist, and activist agitator whose ...

Woody Guthrie poster

by Scout

“There’s a Better World that’s a Comin'” Printed at the worker-owned Stumptown Printers, Portland, ...

Québec 2001: Confronting The FTAA poster

by Stefan Christoff and Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo

“Confronting the FTAA: Thousands of people from across the Americas converged April 20th to 22nd, 2001 to ...

Monsters of the Ivy League

by Steve Radlauer

Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League-universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher ...

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of ...

My Personal History of Race

by Lauren Hage

A short essay about how genetics, race, and PTSD can go hand in hand. Lauren writes about the effects of both childhood ...

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

by Michael Ruhlman

In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there ...

2017 Slingshot Organizer (small)

by Slingshot Collective

SHIPPING NOW! For those who haven't seen a Slingshot, it's a perfect-bound calendar and day planner. It includes ...

Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine: The Curious Stories of 43 Amazing North American Native Plants

by Tammi Hartung

History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, ...

Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought

by Paul Kleinman

Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that ...

True Facts That Sound Like Bullshit: 500 Bits of Insane-But-True Crap That Will Shock Your Friends, and Impress Everyone

by Shane Carley

Impress your friends, stump your bartender, and crush the pub trivia competition! With over 500 absurdly true facts ...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

The demonization of badass women proves to be a historical trend, bred from the reeking loins of male fear. Witches, ...

Madame Sata

by Eloisa Aquino and B&D Press

Madame Satã, born João Francisco Dos Santos, was a true Brazilian legend: a black, queer hustler and the first drag ...

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

Trayvon Martin’s parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate ...

Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

by Jeff Guinn

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher ...

Black History for Beginners

by Denise Dennis and Susan Willmarth

Here is a reprint of one of the most popular Beginners books. Covering a rich history often ignored, Denise Dennis ...

Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners

by Donald D. Palmer

“What is Structuralism? How is it possible? And once the structures of Structuralism have been discovered, how is ...

Black Holocaust For Beginners

by S.E. Anderson, Cro-Maat Collective and Vanessa Holley

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how ...

Tesla For Beginners

by Owen Brozman and Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen

The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist,” Nikola Tesla ...

Bukowski For Beginners

by Carlos Polimeni and Miguel Rep

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious ...

Ayn Rand For Beginners

by Andrew Berstein and Owen Brozman

Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, ...

FDR and the New Deal For Beginners

by Paul Buhle and Sabrina Jones

A profusely illustrated, popularly-written volume with original comic art, FDR and the New Deal For Beginners will ...

Mormonism For Beginners

by Jett Atwood and Stephen Carter

Mormonism For Beginners is a balanced, richly engaging introduction to the history, tenets, practices, traditions, ...

Zinn for Beginners

Zinn For Beginners describes the life and work of the most vital historian of our time. Howard Zinn led a ...

Unions For Beginners

by C.M. Butzer and David Cogswell

Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made ...

Chicano Movement For Beginners

by Maceo Montoya

As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more ...