“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”| A Working Library
An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.| A Working Library
“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”| A Working Library
Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.| A Working Library
Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.| A Working Library
Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.| A Working Library
Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.| A Working Library
“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.| A Working Library
Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.| A Working Library
After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare t...| A Working Library
“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”| A Working Library
Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.| A Working Library
The subtitle of Angela Saini’s *Superior* refers to the *return* of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.| A Working Library
First published in 1981—thirteen years before *The Bell Curve*—Stephen Jay Gould’s *Mismeasure of Man* nonetheless claims to be the definitive refutation of that deeply racist book.| A Working Library
When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”| A Working Library
In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”| A Working Library
Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.| A Working Library
Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.| A Working Library
A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.| A Working Library