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A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the sixties.

Exploring the paradox of the absence of a mass working-class party in the United States, the essays delve into the historical trajectory of American democracy, starting from the Jacksonian era to the emergence of the New Right and Reagan's re-election. Mike Davis critically analyzes key events and movements, offering insights into the complexities of class struggle and the challenges faced by progressive politics in America. The work serves as a thought-provoking examination of the interplay between capitalism and democracy in shaping political landscapes.

"When the Light Goes On helps us dig through the discord and fragmentation of school politics and policy to reclaim the mind and heart of education. Through various students' stories and his own, Rose provides an urgent reminder of the core purpose of education: to learn about ourselves and the world around us, to spark new interests, and to experience with guidance both the fulfillment and the uncertainty of exploring our limits-all in the service of creating a meaningful life"-- Provided by publisher

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.

Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees.

Focusing on the intersection of climate change and capitalism, the book delves into Mike Davis's insightful analysis of urban geography. It explores how economic systems exacerbate environmental degradation and the ensuing crises faced by society. Davis's work highlights the urgent need to address these issues, making it a critical examination of the impact of capital on our climate and urban landscapes.

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19

Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums.

According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory.Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz. Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the “war on terrorism” as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor.

Absolutely fascinating. -William Gibson A history as fascinating as it is instructive. -Peter Ackroyd, Times Few books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future. -San Francisco Examiner