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The genesis of this book sprang from a suggestion by my wife, Gale, who has been my steadfast companion throughout the years of what many call a career journey. It all began with a conversation after a few glasses of wine, as many of our discussions tend to do. We had watched a program on NHK, the Japanese television network in English, which I highly recommend to everyone. One particular episode showcased a group of older Japanese men and a few women...
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With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle– what is to be done next? Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books.
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places-alternate realities being constructed as "utopias" in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments-in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea-are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real....
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Rich with detail, bold and original, Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, an essential portrait of America at the millennium.
Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s.
From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians...
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"The Games of Progress" is a philosophical argument in favor of advancing human space endeavors. This argument is folded into a simple story about an alien species making their mark in the universe and overcoming various opponents.
The Cyanotians of planet Champion overcome billions of years of challenges such as evolving lungs for dry air, conquering land, and discovering outer space. These challenges only propagate as planetary collisions, aliens,...
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At the Country Club where she teaches horseback riding after school, Mia's heroic rescue of a puppy and horse earns the overwhelming gratitude of their owner, a teen bulldozer named Fiona. But when Fiona's pushy, over-the-top appreciation makes Mia's life a living nightmare, the Friends must Ride To The Rescue!
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As the Friends enjoy Heartlake Amusement Park, Emma types a text to Mia, but sends it to Matthew by mistake; a text that could be mega-embarrassing for Emma! As her BFF's, the Friends race to find Matthew's phone and erase the text before he reads it. But first, they must brave space rides, dunking booths and worse: the boys locker room!