radical & revolutionary books
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indigenous knowledge
Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures
Maceo Carrillo Martinet, PhD • 2026
Who We Are Becoming Matters The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a Timeplace of Collapse
Norma Kaweloku Wong • 2026
The Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2024
Growing Papaya Trees Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement
Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D. • 2025
Gathering Moss
Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Kimmerer • 2013
<b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller<br>A <i>Washington Post</i> bestseller<br>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> bestseller<br>Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub<br>A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"<br>A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation</b></p><p>As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In <i><b>Braiding Sweetgrass</b></i>, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).</p><p>Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.</p>
Fresh Banana Leaves
Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D. • 2022
abolition, revolution & liberation
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis • 2016
<b>In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today’s issues—from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.</b><br> <br> Activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis has been a tireless fighter against oppression for decades. Now, the iconic author of <i>Women, Race, and </i><i>Class</i> offers her latest insights into the struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.<br> <br> Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today’s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.<br> <br> Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build a movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that “freedom is a constant struggle.”<br> <br> This edition of <i>Freedom Is a Constant Struggle</i> includes a foreword by Dr. Cornel West and an introduction by Frank Barat.
Let This Radicalize You
Kelly Hayes • 2023
Practicing New Worlds
Andrea Ritchie • 2023
Becoming Abolitionists
Derecka Purnell • 2022
A World Without Police
Geo Maher • 2021
social and climate justice/environmentalism
Outgrowing Modernity
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira • 2025
Decolonial Ecology Thinking from the Caribbean World
Malcom Ferdinand • 2022
<p>The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.</p> <p>In this important new book, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking from the Caribbean world. Here, the slave ship reveals the inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled inside the hold and even thrown overboard at the first gusts of wind. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in the Caribbean, Ferdinand conceptualizes a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the environment together with the political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices.</p> <p>Facing the storm, this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where humans and non-humans can live together on a bridge of justice and shape a common world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in environmental humanities and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as anyone interested in ecology, slavery, and (de)colonization.</p>
Natural Connection
Joycelyn Longdon • 2025
A lyrical, deeply researched and original work of narrative non-fiction by University of Cambridge environmental justice, AI and bioacoustics researcher and educator Joycelyn Longdon.Natural Connection illuminates the wondrous awe of the natural world and reveals how marginalised communities and ancient wisdom help us create a sustainable mindset and future for generations to come.When considering environmental action, many of us view ourselves through the binary of activist or observer. Here, Longdon shows there are many paths to drive positive change, and embracing rage, imagination, innovation, theory, healing and care as outlooks can fuel the wider movement. Rooted in Longdon's cutting-edge research and featuring contributions from key voices such as Robert Macfarlane, Miranda Lowe, Katherine May and Rebecca Solnit, this is an invitation to approach environmental action as a shared goal rather than an individual burden.This book celebrate the histories and extraordinary acts of ordinary people who have paved the way for today's environmental change, such as the Chipko women of India - the original 'tree huggers', who pioneered direct action in their communities to combat deforestation - and Nigeria's Ogoni 9, who fought the threat of fossil fuel extraction in the Delta region. Bringing together inspiring stories from marginalised people from the US to the UK, Brazil to Iran, Ghana to Ethiopia, this book roots us in our intrinsic connection with nature and celebrates the power of community. -- provided by the publisher
Climate Resilience
Kylie Flanagan • 2023
Climate, Psychology, and Change
Steffi Bednarek • 2024
Hospicing Modernity
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira • 2021
The Intersectional Environmentalist
Leah Thomas • 2022
It''s Not That Radical
Mikaela Loach • 2024
It''s Not Just You
Tori Tsui • 2023
The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg • 2022
healing
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, Or Self-involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson • 2015
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. • 2014
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us
Poppy Okotcha • 2025
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price • 2021
Decolonizing Therapy
Jennifer Mullan • 2023
tarot
Red Tarot
Christopher Marmolejo • 2024
Tarot for Change
Jessica Dore • 2021
Holistic Tarot
Benebell Wen • 2015
brazilian books | on indigenous knowledge, feminism & more
Pedagogia do oprimido
Paulo Freire • 2019
Futuro Ancestral | Ancestral Future
Ailton Krenak • 2024
Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo | Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Ailton Krenak • 2021
A vida não é útil | Life Is Not Useful
Ailton Krenak • 2020
Por um feminismo afro-latino-americano
Lélia Gonzalez • 2020
Descolonizando afetos
Geni Nuñez • 2023
digital world
Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis • 2024
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World
Adele Zeynep Walton • 2025
