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mmon Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future by Matt Hern.
Matt Hern, radical deschooling activist (whose previous book, Everywhere all the Time has been extremely popular down here at Red Emma's), returns to his roots in urban studies with this amazing new book of essays on the ecology (environmental and cultural) of cities. Having read most of the book over the shoulder of the person laying it out, I'm really excited by this one - hoping Matt winds up being the Michael Pollan of urban studies, since the book is remarkably readable, funny and personal, while at the same time outling the radically sensible ideas we need to invent a just and sustainable urban future. Plus - it's a great gift, because you are virtually guaranteed that the person you buy it for will not already have it - Red Emma's has copies for sale before even Amazon.
The Coming Insurrec
tion by The Invisible Committee
Our best selling title of 2009 by a landslide, this little blue book has insprired the comically uninformed fury of Glenn Beck , been introduced as evidence in the French government's Orwellian trial against the Tarnac 9, and been probably the most widely read radical text of the year, including at our own anarchism study group at the Baltimore Free School.
Swift Winds by Ron Sakolsky
A pocket sized compendium of Surrealist agitation from Ron Sakolsky, radical scholar, radio pirate, and amabassador from Utopia. Illustrated by Anais LaRue and exquisitely printed by the good folks at Eberhardt Press.
Radical Mycology by the Spore Liberation Front
We just got in a pile of these wonderful zines dealing with everything from mushroom foraging to using fungi in bioremediation.
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