
Tip of the Spear
Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
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Orisanmi Burton
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Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls.
Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who led the struggle. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, Tip of the Spear promises to transform our understanding of prisons—not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility.
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In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx - a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism.
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- By: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
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Much more depth than the Haley book.
- By CapitalHeel on 11-03-20
By: Les Payne, and others
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Calm in the Chaos
- True Tales from Elite U.S. Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers
- By: Brian Dickinson
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From an elite Navy rescue swimmer comes this insider perspective on what it takes to survive some of the most dangerous situations imaginable—and how the lessons learned can help overcome other momentous challenges.
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The bravery and courage of these rescuers. Amazing!
- By Stephanie on 03-05-25
By: Brian Dickinson
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Ocean
- A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
- By: John Haywood
- Narrated by: Ben Eagle
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World.
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Prehistory of the Atlantic
- By Sarah C on 03-14-25
By: John Haywood
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Soledad Brother
- The Prison Letters of George Jackson
- By: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
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The narrator brings emotion that can only come from a family member that has truly been affected by this story.
- By Dakota Hoch on 02-07-24
By: George Jackson, and others
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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Destiny Challenged: Churchill and JFK's Fight Over England and Nazi Germany
- Includes the Two Original Classic Editions: While England Slept and Why England Slept
- By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill, John F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Peter Walters, AJ Crozby
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Two heroic world leaders diverge over the fate of civilization in this World War II history enrichment bundle edition, Destiny Challenged. Discover Churchill and Kennedy’s once famous original classic works juxtaposed for the first time.
By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill, and others
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A Century of Tomorrows
- How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present
- By: Glenn Adamson
- Narrated by: Glenn Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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A Century of Tomorrows offers an illuminating account of how the world was transformed by the science (or is it?) of futurecasting. Beneath the chaos of competing tomorrows, Adamson reveals a hidden order: six key themes that have structured visions of what’s next. Helping him to tell this story are remarkable characters, including self-proclaimed futurologists such as Buckminster Fuller and Stewart Brand, as well as an eclectic array of other visionaries who have influenced our thinking about the world ahead.
By: Glenn Adamson
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Israel's Black Panthers
- The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
- By: Asaf Elia-Shalev
- Narrated by: Tova Katz
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled against the ethnic hierarchy of Israeli life in the 1970s. Inspired by the American group of the same name, the Black Panthers mounted protests and a yearslong political campaign for the rights of Mizrahim, or Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry. They managed to rattle the country's establishment and change the course of Israel's history through the mass mobilization of a Jewish underclass.
By: Asaf Elia-Shalev
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
- And the Discourse on Language
- By: Michel Foucault
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.
By: Michel Foucault
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Wars Without End
- New Zealand’s Land Wars – A Maori Perspective
- By: Danny Keenan
- Narrated by: Tamati Rimene-Sproat
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Maori have struggled to hold on to their land.
By: Danny Keenan
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos - translator, Donaldo Macedo - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing. This 50th anniversary edition includes an updated introduction by Donaldo Macedo, a new afterword by Ira Shor, and many inspirational interviews.
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Not easy listening
- By Berel Dov Lerner on 02-20-19
By: Paulo Freire, and others
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Dead Man's Jury
- A Ben Carter Legal Thriller, Book 1
- By: David Archer, Oliver Black
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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What began as a weekend fishing trip, turns into the fight of his life when lawyer Ben Carter finds a young boy alone on the side of a road in upstate New York. Quickly linking the boy to a murder scene more than a hundred miles away, the pair travel to nearby Pittsburgh, where a mystery thrusts them both into the fight of their lives.
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Great story fast moving
- By Kathleen on 12-09-24
By: David Archer, and others
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The Last Kilo
- Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America
- By: T. J. English
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, agents, lawyers, judges, and politicians who made the drug world go round. And no one managed that carousel of dangerous players better than Willy Falcon.
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Just wow unbelievable
- By Jose herrera on 01-01-25
By: T. J. English
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The Last Tsar
- The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
- By: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs—it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas’s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy.
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Confusion
- By Michael L. Cook on 01-24-25
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Guns Up!
- A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War
- By: Johnnie Clark
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth.
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- By PowerRN on 04-03-25
By: Johnnie Clark
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- Michael Bolds
- 12-19-24
Mr. Nixon excels in delivering Dr. Burton’s peerless analysis
Mr. Nixon masterfully articulates Dr. Burton’s tremendous and pertinent insights with style and grace. Essential listening for all those who wish to have carceral systems demystified.
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