books about: anarchist     books:       Living My Life (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Emma Goldman Penguin Classics, 2006 Living Beyond Expectations In her autobiography Emma Goldman explains her life, narrating the experience of marching to her own drummer. Depending on the reader's political expectations, Emma's life is either inspiring or downright terrifying. Those who believe in social conformity would probably be more comfortable moving on to other fodder. Nevertheless, this eyewitness account of American and Russian history, ought not ...             The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)101 reviews G.K. Chesterton Modern Library, 2001 Your blue sock is behind the dryer. I went into reading this book with such strong misconceptions concerning what it was about. Like the characters whom see things completely different it seems like the readers of this book see its meaning quite differently as well. It is a crazy allegory but of what? On a stylistic level Chesterton's prose is unique and well crafted. Chesterton has his own voice in his writing powerful, ...             The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Galaxy ...16 reviews Norman Cohn Oxford University Press, USA, 1970 As ever, the millennium is just around the corner Cohn's "Pursuit of the Millennium" has aged well and nearing 50 years of age it is deservedly a classic. Its subjet might be considered by some to be esoteric: it deals with prophets from middle age Europe who led others to believe that the end of times was at hand, and that they had been chosen by God to purify the world in preparation for the Kingdom of the Last Days, and with pantheistic ...             The Anarchist Cookbook161 reviews William Powell Ozark Press, LLC, 2002 Inspiring, but don't do I remember having a burning desire to have this book. Back in the 80s when I was a high school student and there was no 'internet' to speak of. Well, a few BBS's the college kids were talking about, long distance phone bills to dial up another city's thing... So, because of the limited availablity of "Stuff", things like this became very alluring. Go to the bookstore, say "Do you have the ...             Still Life with Woodpecker168 reviews Tom Robbins Bantam, 1990 Amazing I'm buying this book for a second time. I love Robbin's rhythm. This book in particular will let you in on the secret of us red heads! Enjoi!             Montmorency's Revenge5 reviews Eleanor Updale Scholastic Paperbacks, 2008 A powerful tale of revenge and recovery. Eleanor Updale's MONTMORENCY'S REVENGE tells of Montmorency's determination to exact revenge on killer who have destroyed Queen Victoria - but before he can do this he must stop one Doctor Farcett's slide into insanity - and handle the grief of others. This is the fourth Montmorency adventure about the gentlemen thief, and is a powerful tale of revenge and recovery.             Anarchism: From Theory to Practice10 reviews Daniel Guerin Monthly Review Press, 1970 Best slim volume intro out there I read this book in a day, and filled the margins with many, many notes, something I rarely do. Clearly, Gruien doesn't cover every aspect of Anarchism, but for a brief introduction to Proudhon, Bakhunin and Kropotkin, it is the best out there. And, our very own American Anarchist Noam Chomsky did the introduction, which is just as good as anything in the book (Hell, his intro is half the reason ...             The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)68 reviews Joseph Conrad Signet Classics, 2007 Suspenseful & ironic: A Conrad classic Based on a true incident, Conrad tells the story of Verloc, the secret agent provocateur who is given the task of blowing up the Royal Observatory in London as a way of heaping scorn on anarchists in England. He sends his mentally deficient brother-in-law Stevie with the bomb, which blows up before he can reach the observatory. Stevie is annihilated and when Verloc's wife (Winnie) finds out what ...             Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook8 reviews CrimethInc. Workers' Collective CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, 2005 very interesting i read this after reading "days of war, nights of love" and found it very interesting...it sets out step by step instructions on how to utilize the information you got from DOW,NOL...its also great for anyone who would like to change up the scenery of their neighborhood...as i said for days of war...this book isnt for everyone...i would recommend this book to much fewer people than days of war, ...             Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman3 reviews Sharon Rudahl New Press, 2007 Real life Superhero Emma Goldman is one of the big name names of American anarchists, as well as one of the earlier to contribute to free speech, birth control, and the labor movements. She was an amazing public speaker, something that is lost in this day of television and radio, and her writing still ranks amongst the classics of Anarchist thought for a free and just society. From her involvement in the shooting of ...             Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (New York Review Books Classics)7 reviews Alexander Berkman NYRB Classics, 1999 Beyond Terrorism In 1892, Alexander Berkman burst into the office of Henry Frick, an overseer at Carnegie's steelworks, and attempted to gun him down to foment a revolutionary uprising. Frick survived. Berkman went to jail. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Berkman's account, not only of the revolutionary ardor which drove him to assault Frick, but also of the horrors of incarceration and the transformation of ...             The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)11 reviews Joseph Conrad Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Bleak, Mordant, Beautifully Written, Funny... ... and wildly under-appreciated, judging by the other reviews here on amazon! This is so archetypical a spy novel that frankly no other spy novel needed ever to be written. Conrad has said it all. It's tightly plotted, completely plausible except perhaps for a few too-convenient chance meetings on the street, and profoundly insightful into the "politics" of terror. And it's freshly pertinent, ...             Bakunin: The Creative Passion1 review Mark Leier Thomas Dunne Books, 2006 Stunningly bad What can one say about an allegedly ground-breaking biography of a major 19th-century political theorist in which the author feels the need to mention Catherine Zeta-Jones, William Safire and John Grisham? Saying very little would be the polite option but to spare any unsuspecting readers the pain and sheer-disbelief that a few pages of this book can inflict compels me to say a bit more. Leier ...             The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare G. K. Chesterton CreateSpace, 2008 This book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God - although whether this assertion is what the author intended to convey is ...             Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist2 reviews Antonin Artaud Solar Books, 2007 Incredible Book This book is Antonin Artaud's prose-history of the emperor Heliogabalus in which he explores philosophically the world of sperm cults, sun-worship, castration rituals, sodomy and extravagant theatrics in which the child king rose to his bizarre and decadent reign. This book has only recently become available in the English language - a tremendous contribution for anglophone readers. Rest assured ...             Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery11 reviews April Smith Knopf, 2008 DIALOGUE SO SHARP IT CUTS LIKE A KNIFE Daring, resourceful FBI Agent Ana Grey has been in some pretty tough scrapes (North of Montana, Good Killer). However, the situation she's in with her latest adventure is more than a scrape - it's a wound that could prove fatal. Still emotionally fragile following a shooting incident Ana has been through what is called "critical incident training, psychoanalyzing with other agents who have ...             Fo Plays: 1: Mistero Buffo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Trumpets and Raspberries, The Virtuous Burglar, ... Dario Fo A&C Black, 2004 Fo Plays: 1 contains some of the playwright's best work, including: Mistero Buffo , a work based on research into medieval mystery plays; Accidental Death of an Anarchist , which concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; and Trumpets and Raspberries , a play in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer, FIAT, is mistaken for a ...             The Great Anarchists: Ideas and Teachings of Seven Major Thinkers1 review Paul Eltzbacher Dover Publications, 2004 Great book! This is the best intro to classical anarchist thought that I have come across. The first two intro chapters are literally the densest thing I've ever read in my life, and not in the way that pays off once you get it. However, the remainder of the book is comprised of excerpts and quotes which are very well-organized, with only a sentence here and there from the actual author, Eltzbacher. It's ...             The South2 reviews Colm Toibin Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 A painting of a painter's life The South by Colm Toibin is an intense, though fitful chronicle of a woman's life, a life as yet incomplete. It presents a patchwork of detail amidst vast tracts of unknown, like a painting that has a suggestion of complete outline interspersed with patches of intricate detail. Thus, eventually, we know some amazing things about Katherine Proctor and we have shared much of her life. She remains, ...             Knitting for Anarchists7 reviews Anna Zilboorg Unicorn Books for Craftsmen Inc, 2002 This is an important book For several years I've been told by friends that I ought to lay hands on a copy of this book, before it goes out of print. When I finally found one and spent an evening reading it, I discovered why there is such a buzz about the book. Although you may be drawn to the colorful pages and designs (which are only a small part of the volume), what lies at the heart of this book are its sensible, ...              search for books accidental, anarchism, anarchist, anarchists, biography, burglar, centennial, classics, contemporary, cookbook, creative, dangerous, disaster, dramatists, heliogabalus, knitting, millenarians, millennium, montmorency, mystical, nightmare, practice, raspberries, revolutionary, teachings, thinkers, thursday, trumpets, virtuous, woodpecker books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Hot Rod Surf 100% Genuine we recommend Amazing leave a comment home  impressum - about us