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THANKS/TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
AK PrESS 2010 CATALOg
 Welcome to the 2010Catalog!
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(510)208-1700 | info@akpress.orgAbout AK Press ...........................1Acerca de AK Press ...................3About AK Press Publishing ......5Friends of AK Press ..................45Gift Ideas ....................................46Excerpts
Come Hell or High Water 
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Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution 
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Common Ground in aLiquid City .............................
10New Titles...................................12Forthcoming ...............................18Recent & Recommended .........20Backlist .......................................22AK A/V .........................................28AK Press Gear ...........................31
New & Recommended
Anarchism ...............................32Biography/Autobiography ....34Calendars ................................36CDs/Vinyl .................................37Children/Young Adult .............37DIY/Culture ..............................38DVDs.........................................40Eco/Green................................42Education.................................44
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Fiction.......................................47Gender/Sexuality....................49Graphic/Art..............................52History ......................................54Labor ........................................56Music .......................................57Non-Fiction..............................58Poetry/Theater........................59Politics/Current Events .........60Prisons/Policing .....................64Race .........................................66Situationist ..............................68Spanish ....................................68Surrealism ...............................70Theory ......................................70Vegan/Vegetarian ..................72Zines .........................................74
Periodicals.................................76 Wearables
AK Press Gear ........................31Distro Gear ..............................77
Exclusive Publisher Backlist ...79Ordering Information
Mailorder Information ...........88Order Form ........................89, 91Trade Order Information .......90
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Front cover image © Lauren E. Sayoc.This photograph appears in theforthcoming book
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle 
, by David Solnitand Rebecca Solnit, released in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Seattle WTOprotests in November 1999. See page 13for more information.Back cover image © Seth Tobocman,from our forthcoming 20th anniversaryedition of his
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive 
. See page 12 formore about the book, and page 78 for hisnew shirt!
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About AK Press
 AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes anddistributes radical books, visual and audio media, and othermind-altering material. We’re small: a dozen people who work long hours for short money, because we believe in what we do.We’re anarchists, which is reected both in the books we provideand in the way we organize our business. Decisions at AK Pressare made collectively, from what we publish, to what we distributeand how we structure our labor. All the work, from sweeping oors to answering phones, is shared. When the telemarketerscall and ask “who’s in charge?” the answer is: everyone.Our goal isn’t prot (although we do have to pay the rent). Ourgoal is supplying radical words and images to as many people aspossible. The books and other media we distribute are publishedby independent presses, not the corporate giants. We make them widely available to help you make positive (or, hell, revolutionary)changes in the world. As you probably know, the stuff we carry is less and less available from the corporate publishers and theirchain.The items in this catalog are available to bookstores, infoshops,rogue tablers, and individuals. While we try to keep all the itemslisted in stock, occasionally things go in and out of print orare temporarily unavailable—we apologize in advance for any inconvenience. All prices were correct when we went to print,but are subject to change. For the most current product infoand to see the newest items (we update the website with new products weekly), check us out at www.akpress.org. While you’rethere, check out the Bookmobile to see if AK Press will be in your neck of the woods soon, to sign up for our mailing lists forupdates on new products and events, or to learn about Friendsof AK Press.
 What Do You Mean By Anarchism?”
“Like all really good ideas,” writes Clifford Harper, “Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it—human beings are attheir best when they are living free of authority, deciding thingsamong themselves rather than being ordered about.” Anarchismmeans abolishing the state and all coercive social relations. Itmeans a society in which individuals create and control theirown collective organizations to meet their social and economicneeds. These organizations would federate and democratically coordinate (rather than compete) among themselves withoutany government oversight. Some say that this is impossible, that without governmental authority we’d descend into violence,lawlessness, and corruption. But, look around: isn’t that pretty much what we have now? Government is a centralized force that imposesrules from above, suppressing individual initiative in the interestsof a small minority. Capitalism is an economic system based onexploitation, private ownership (theft) of society’s resources, anda logic of ruthless competition. Rather than accept these humanconstructions as “natural,” AK Press draws on a rich history of folks from all over the planet and from all walks of life who haveimagined, fought for, and actually achieved something better.No government, “revolutionary” or otherwise, has everliberated its citizens from gender, racial, or class oppression. Nogovernment has ever developed a model for an environmentally sustainable society. With a record like that, it’s strange that anyonestill backs that particular horse. Back in the day, as socialist ideas were developing and confronting the emerging capitalist system,revolutionaries claimed that “the emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves.” Anarchists stillmake that claim. We don’t advocate “no control,” but insist onasking “control by whom?” We work to destroy arbitrary power(political, economic, and social), to take decision-making poweraway from “ofcials,” while developing our ability to ll that voidand provide for ourselves. “People’s governments” invariably become calcied and abandon the struggle for human freedom.This is why we identify with the liberatory strains withinthe history of socialism—the unbroken thread of impassionedresistance against both the terrors of capitalism and the tyranny of government. Anarchism doesn’t tell people what to do. It tells them thatthey have the ability to make decisions about the issues thataffect them. Anarchism, and the anarchist movement, is aboutemancipation, empowerment, and agency. Ask yourself this: what would your ideal transportation system, agricultural system,neighborhood, school, or workplace look like? Now ask yourself how much inuence you and the people around you have overthese issues? Can we afford to leave these decisions to the samepeople who have been screwing up our lives thus far?Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once wrote, “Iam somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equaltalent have lived and died in cotton elds and sweatshops.” Therepressive hierarchies of capitalism and the state create humanbeings who are mere shells of what we could be, stunting usmentally, physically, and emotionally. Adding insult to injury, we’re then taught to blame ourselves for this situation, instead of looking for the institutional roots of our problems.Because destroying one form of oppression only leaves theothers to fester, anarchism tries to focus on all unequal powerrelations simultaneously. Capitalism and the state didn’tinvent racism, patriarchy, or gender oppression, but they use a  variety of divisive tactics to bolster our dependence on them.Understanding how oppressions are interlinked is an importantstep in overcoming them, as well as a way to practice freedomhere and now, rather than relegating it to some distant future.For us, anarchism is a practical framework for working outthese issues. It’s a revolutionary analysis that helps us understandthe roots of domination, both as individuals and as members of exploited social groups. It offers a useful and instructive history 
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