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Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism and capitalism. As of 2021, she is an associate professor, and professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia, co-directing a Centre for Climate Justice. Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom. Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. In 2016, Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She was formerly a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org. Family Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec, into a Jewish family with a history of peace activism. Her parents were self-described hippies who emigrated from the United States in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War. Her mother, documentary filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein, is best known for her anti-pornography film Not a Love Story. Her father, Michael Klein, is a physician and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her brother, Seth Klein, is an author and the former director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Before World War II, her paternal grandparents were communists, but they began to turn against the Soviet Union after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. In 1942, her grandfather, an animator at Disney, was fired after the 1941 strike, and had to switch to working in a shipyard instead. By 1956 they had abandoned communism. Klein's father grew up surrounded by ideas of social justice and racial equality, but found it "difficult and frightening to be the child of Communists", a so-called red diaper baby. Klein's husband, Avi Lewis, was born into a political and journalistic family. His grandfather, David Lewis, was an architect and leader of the federal New Democratic Party, while his father, Stephen Lewis, was a leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. Avi Lewis works as a TV journalist and documentary filmmaker. The couple have one son, Toma. Early life and education Klein spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls, obsessed with designer labels. As a child and teenager, she found it "very oppressive to have a very public feminist mother," and she rejected politics, instead embracing "full-on consumerism". She has attributed her change in worldview to two catalysts. One was when she was 17 and preparing for the University of Toronto, her mother had a stroke and became severely disabled. Naomi, her father, and her brother took care of Bonnie through the period in hospital and at home, making educational sacrifices to do so. That year off prevented her "from being such a brat". The next year, after she had begun her studies at the University of Toronto, the second catalyst occurred: the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre of female engineering students, which proved to be a wake-up call to feminism. Klein's writing career began with contributions to The Varsity, a student newspaper, where she served as editor-in-chief. After her third year at the University of Toronto, she dropped out of university to take a job at The Globe and Mail, followed by an editorship at This Magazine. In 1995, she returned to the University of Toronto with the intention of finishing her degree but left to pursue an internship in journalism before acquiring the final credits required to complete her degree. Works No Logo In 1999 Klein published the book No Logo, which for many became a manifesto of the anti-globalization movement. In it, she attacks brand-oriented consumer culture and the operations of large corporations. She also accuses several such corporations of unethically exploiting workers in the world's poorest countries in pursuit of greater profits. In this book, Klein criticized Nike so severely that Nike published a point-by-point response. No Logo became an international bestseller, selling over one million copies in over 28 languages. Fences and Windows Klein's Fences and Windows (2002) is a collection of her articles and speeches written on behalf of the anti-globalization movement (all proceeds from the book go to benefit activist organizations through The Fences and Windows Fund). The Take The Take (2004), a documentary film collaboration by Klein and Lewis, concerns factory workers in Argentina who took over a closed plant and resumed production, operating as a collective. The first African screening was in the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the South African city of Durban, where the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement began. An article in Z Communications criticized The Take for its portrayal of the Argentine general and politician Juan Domingo Perón arguing that he was falsely portrayed as a social democrat. The Shock Doctrine Klein's third book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, was published on September 4, 2007. The book argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to prominence in countries such as Chile under Pinochet, Poland, and Russia under Yeltsin. The book also argues that policy initiatives (for instance, the privatization of Iraq's economy under the Coalition Provisional Authority) were rushed through while the citizens of these countries were in shock from disasters, upheavals, or invasion. The book became an international and New York Times bestseller and was translated into 28 languages. Central to the book's thesis is the contention that those who wish to implement unpopular free market policies now routinely do so by taking advantage of certain features of the aftermath of major disasters, be they economic, political, military or natural. The suggestion is that when a society experiences a major 'shock' there is a widespread desire for a rapid and decisive response to correct the situation; this desire for bold and immediate action provides an opportunity for unscrupulous actors to implement policies which go far beyo.... Discover the Naomi Klein popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Naomi Klein books.
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What Were We Thinking
Carlos LozadaIn this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds...
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The Athenian Constitution
Aristotle & Peter RhodesProbably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, ...
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The Way Home
Mark BoyleAn honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid. It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.No runni...
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Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
Pope Francis & Naomi OreskesThe complete text of Laudato Si’, the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community”In the Encyclical on Climate...
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Winning the Green New Deal
Varshini Prakash & Guido GirgentiAn urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Dealand a detailed playbook for how we can win itincluding contributions by leading...
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Design as Art
Bruno MunariHow do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever....
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas MalmProperty will cost us the earthThe science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, an...
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
Julian Aguon & Arundhati RoyA Michelle Obama Reach Higher Fall 2022 reading list pickA Library Journal "BEST BOOK OF 2022""Aguon’s book is for everyone, but he challenges history by placing indigenous conscio...
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Slow Down
Kohei Saito & Brian Bergstrom"[A] wellreasoned and eyeopening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plet...
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How to Prepare for Climate Change
David PogueA practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling selfhelp author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and techn...
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Climate Resilience
Kylie FlanaganAn intersectional primer for saving the planet: placebased perspectives and communityled tools for fighting climate changefor readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All...
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The Great Displacement
Jake BittleShortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and farsighted.” Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author ...
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No Logo
Naomi KleinA Tenth Anniversary Edition of Naomi Klein's No Logo with a New Introduction by the AuthorNO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi...
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Greed Is Dead
Paul Collier & John KayTwo of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thoughtprovoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, ...
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The Utopia of Rules
David GraeberFrom the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endl...
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Hot Mess
Matt Winning'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' Adam Kay'HOT MESS provides loads of laughs about "the climate situation" and will position you at...
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Half-Earth Socialism
Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass"Empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril: an exercise in democracy few books have dared to undertake."–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelineA ...
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The Blue Commons
Guy StandingA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' David Bo...
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Serious Money
Caroline Knowles'A latterday Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eyeopening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLo...
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Vulture Capitalism
Grace BlakeleyLonglisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction A Next Big Idea Book Club MustRead for March 2024In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto fr...
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Superpower
Russell GoldMeet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America’s future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this “essential, compelling look into the futur...
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How To Save Our Planet
Mark A. Maslin'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figue...
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Distant Voices
John PilgerThroughout his distinguished career as a journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.The centre...
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Billy Bragg
Andrew Collins'Love me or hate me. It's a great read’ Billy Bragg He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flagwaver for the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, passionate protest ...
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Even If Everything Ends
Jens LiljestrandLife goes on in the face of a climate crisis in this astonishing and unforgettable debut novel that follows four characters as they struggle to survive in a burning world. Even whe...
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A Generation of Sociopaths
Bruce Cannon GibneyIn his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the ...
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Under The Weather
James RenwickThe mustread book on what New Zealand's changing climate means for our everyday livesA warmer world will change more than just our weather patterns. It will change the look of the ...
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The Patch
Chris TurnerBestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the many ways the oilsands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: In ord...
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The 2084 Report
James Lawrence PowellFor fans of The Drowned World and World War Z, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novela look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben,...
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Erik Olin Wright & Michael BurawoyWhat is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared...
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Human Instinct
Professor Lord Robert WinstonFrom caveman to modern man ...Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; fewer still consider, let alone accept, the psychological implications. But in truth, man no...
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A History of Masculinity
Ivan Jablonka & Nathan Bracher'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in Franc...
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50 Politics Classics
Tom Butler-BowdonWe live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learned from history.From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotl...
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The Climate Book
Greta ThunbergA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWe still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.You might think it's an i...
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Avedon
Norma Stevens & Steven M. L. AronsonAn intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by h...
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Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard"Wonderful . . . a moving autobiography, the story of a unique business, and a detailed blueprint for hope." Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelIn...
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Post-Growth Living
Kate SoperAn urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist,...
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Cracking Economics
Tejvan PettingerCrack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rate...
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We Belong to Gaia
James LovelockIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our rem...
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This Changes Everything
Naomi KleinThe most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core ...
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Less is More
Jason Hickel'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA F...
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On the Line
Daisy Pitkin“Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor movement. A remarkable debut.” Francisco Cantú, New York Times bestse...
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Saving Us
Katharine HayhoeUnited Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling ...
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All Art is Ecological
Timothy MortonIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of ...