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Hayek's the Road to Serfdom by Bruce Caldwell

Pro Git by Scott Chacon

Pro Git is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. Git has come a long …

Waiting for the barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians …

A short history of progress by Ronald Wright

Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to …

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan …

The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

Written by the authors of the 10 volume The Story of Civilization, this short (fewer than 120 pages) work …

The autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Walter Dean Myers

Biography of the American black religious leader and activist who was born Malcolm Little, published in 1965. Written by Alex …

Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos

Anarchism is the boldest of revolutionary social movements to emerge from the struggle against capitalism, it aims for a world …

Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature by Tony Burns

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and …

The collapse of complex societies by Joseph A. Tainter

A survey of complex (post-hunter-gatherer, hierarchical) societies and their collapse, and the various theories proposed to account for collapse. The …

October the First Is Too Late by Fred Hoyle

Immoderate greatness by William Ophuls

"Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They …

Why hope? by John Zerzan

COSM by Gregory Benford

In search of the multiverse by John R. Gribbin