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  | | Old Gods, New Enigmas(Reprint) Marx's Lost Theory (Paperback) by Mike Davis Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-217-8, ISBN: 1-78873-217-0 |
 | | Planet of Slums(Reprint) by Mike Davis Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-160-1, ISBN: 1-84467-160-7 "A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion 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 in ..." |
 | | Magical Urbanism Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City by Mike Davis, Michael Sprinker Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-328-4, ISBN: 1-85984-328-X "Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic an ..." |
 | | Ecology of Fear(1st Edition) Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70607-3, ISBN: 0-375-70607-0 "The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes: "The destructive February 1992, January 1993 and January 1995 floods ($500 million damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's ..." |
 | | Ecology of Fear(1st Edition) Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis, Ezra Pound Hardcover, 484 Pages, Published 1998 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5106-3, ISBN: 0-8050-5106-6 "The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes: "The destructive February 1992, January 1993 and January 1995 floods ($500 million damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's ..." |
 | | Creating Visual Narratives Through Photography A Fresh Approach to Making a Living as a Photographer by Mike Davis Paperback, Published 2022 by Taylor And Francis ISBN-13: 978-1-03-226285-7, ISBN: 1-03-226285-0 |
 | | In Praise of Barbarians(1st Edition) Essays against Empire by Mike Davis Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-931859-42-4, ISBN: 1-931859-42-6 "The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men’s burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year ..." |
 | | The Monster at Our Door(1st Edition) The Global Threat of Avian Flu by Mike Davis Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2005 by New Press, The ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-011-5, ISBN: 1-59558-011-5 "From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat."We are talking at least seven million deaths, but maybe more—10 million, 20 million, and the worst case, 100 million."—Shigeru Omi, Regional Director, western pacific office of the World Health Organization, November 2004Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strai ..." |
 | | The JFK Assassination Evidence Handbook Issues, Evidence & Answers by Mike Davis Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-71779-384-3, ISBN: 1-71779-384-3 "The JFK Assassination Evidence Handbook brings to light a wealth of evidence that the Warren Commission swept under the rug when it produced the Warren Report in 1964. Drawn from the Commission's own collection of hearings and exhibits, plus thousands of pages of unindexed documents, this evidence decisively refutes the Warren Commission's theory of Oswald as lone assassin. By applying the Commission's own evidence to the key issues of ..." |
 | | How to Teach Continuing Medical Education(1st Edition) by Mike Davis, Kirsty Forrest, Langdon Davis, Ros Roden Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2008 by Bmj Books Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5398-0, ISBN: 1-4051-5398-9 "This new volume in the concise "How To" series explores the foundations and principles of continuing education of professionals and then relates these to the practice of teaching the various modalities used in CME. The areas covered include experiential learning, group dynamics, situated learning and reflective practice - and make these understandable for all health professionals tasked with teaching continuing medical education. An ide ..." |
 | | CITY OF QUARTZ(Updated) EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES by Mike Davis, Robert Morrow Paperback, 441 Pages, Published 2006 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-568-5, ISBN: 1-84467-568-8 "Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Span ..." |
 | | Late Victorian Holocausts(1st Edition) El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis Paperback, 470 Pages, Published 2002 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-382-6, ISBN: 1-85984-382-4 "“Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.”—Tariq AliExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th 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. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on ..." |
 | | City of Quartz(1st Edition) Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis, Robert Morrow Paperback, 462 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73806-0, ISBN: 0-679-73806-1 "Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scal ..." |
 | | Evil Paradises Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism by Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-392-5, ISBN: 1-59558-392-0 " 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 sh ..." |
 | | Set the Night on Fire Los Angeles in the Sixties by Mike Davis, Jonathan Wiener Hardcover, 800 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-022-7, ISBN: 1-78478-022-7 "A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation--and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of "Asian Am ..." |
 | | Kevin King of the Air Surf Guitar: It's about belonging (Paperback) by Mike Davis Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-67382-150-5, ISBN: 1-67382-150-2 "Kevin Cousins is a young Koori boy from the Shoalhaven who finds himself in an alien world when his Gran takes ill and is hospitalised there." |
 | | Introduction to Gsm Physical Channels, Logical Channels, Network Functions, and Operation (Paperback Or Softback) by Lawrence Harte, Mike Davis, Bruce Bromley Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2011 by Phoenix Global Support ISBN-13: 978-1-932813-85-2, ISBN: 1-932813-85-3 "This book explains the basic components, technologies used, and operation of GSM systems. This book starts with the system components and basic services that the GSM system can provide. You will learn that the key types of GSM devices include single mode and dual mode mobile telephones, wireless PCMCIA cards, embedded radio modules, and external radio modems. You will then discover the different types of available services such as multi ..." |
 | | Buda's Wagon A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2008 by Verso Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-294-3, ISBN: 1-84467-294-8 "In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities a ..." |
 | | Victory Gardens 2007+(1st Edition) by Amy Franceschini, Mike Davis, Lucy R. Lippard Hardcover, 101 Pages, Published 2008 by Gallery 16 Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9777442-6-8, ISBN: 0-9777442-6-4 "Art. Culturally Writing. VICTORY GARDENS 2007+ chronicles Amy Franceschini's inspired reimagining of the original wartime Victory Garden program. The book features essays by Lucy Lippard and Mike Davis along with historical photos and context, and project documentation and insight. Franceschini's Victory Gardens 2007+ was presented as a series of actions, sculptural icons, and ephemera during the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA ..." |
 | | No One Is Illegal Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Mike Davis, Justin Akers Chacon, Julian Cardona Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-931859-35-6, ISBN: 1-931859-35-3 "“A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.”âSusan Faludi “[Davis’ writing is] perceptive and rigorous.”âDavid Montgomery, The Nation “[Davis’ work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.”âThe Village Voice “[Davis’ work is] eloquent and passionate.”âTariq Ali No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigr ..." |
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