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Dying Breed

Dying Breed

Mike Davis

Independently Published
2019
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Surfboard shaper, Medford Haley answers a call for help from his mother to leave his home at Noosa Heads, Australia to help her deliver on a promise to an old friend with a restoration of an old Mohave granary in the Mojave Desert. He soon discovers that he not only faces a near impossible task but is also at war with an underground neo-nazi para-military super-cell who want to control the valley and water after his eighty-four year old mother shoots the predatory tattooed cue-ball in the leg for patting her on the butt. All appears lost until Smoke, the mysterious caretaker enlists Gray Wolf, the Mojave shaman who summons and the timeless people themselves to rid itself of this cancer stain on America. What grows out of this battlefield is a desert flower
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Kevin: King of the Air Surf Guitar: It's about belonging

Kevin: King of the Air Surf Guitar: It's about belonging

Mike Davis

Independently Published
2019
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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. His life seems to be taking on some kind of structure when he and his sister join the Surf Club and earn their Bronze Medallions so that they can get a surfboard. Then their Gran dies and their mother suffers a total physical collapse. Things will get a lot worse before they get better. At least he and his baby sis are together until they took her away. Kevin will learn his life lessons at the knee of his Uncle Robert and hope that one day his family will be together as one. There's even a time when his mooring lines come loose and he finds himself dangerously adrift is seas of uncertainty after his closest mate is killed on his bike. Kevin will find purpose finally and take control of his life when he befriends the youngest child in the settlement at Wreck Bay and makes sure Little Stevie learns the same lessons he been so lovingly schooled in. Only then does his life take on meaning and the things he's missed so much are returned to him.
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Ice

Ice

Mike Davis

Independently Published
2019
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Medford Haley is Sioux. He is a surfboard shaper whose clientele consists of surfers who travel beyond the fringes in search of new and different adventures. His latest stint beyond he home at Noosa Heads, Australia begins when he is awakened in the early morning hours by his neighbour, the daughter of a very close friend in great distress. It seems that she had inseminated herself with the semen from a frozen and mummified corpse of a Neolithic man discovered eighteen year prior and a rabid right wing bunch of religious nutters want to kill her and her son, who is Medford's clean-up and ding repair kid at his factory. Medford and the mother and son flee into the night heading for 'A place that time forgot and the Christians couldn't find.' Which turns out to be and island of cannibalistic head-hunters in the Tabu Group in Northern Papua New Guinea. Medford enlists his old surfing buddy and yachtsman Charlie Hefernan to facilitate an incredible disappearing act. Once again Medford is stuck between a rock and a harder place. Will this indeed be the ageing Medford's last stand against overwhelming odds when going back is the only way of going forward? Only time and a double dose of Sioux wisdom can tell.
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Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2017
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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 industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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Late Victorian Holocausts

Late Victorian Holocausts

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2017
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Examining 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 three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.
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Buda's Wagon

Buda's Wagon

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2017
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On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City.In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the its 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 and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with "rings of steel" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.
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City of Quartz

City of Quartz

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2018
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
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Prisoners of the American Dream

Prisoners of the American Dream

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2018
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Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the reelection of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.
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Ecology of Fear

Ecology of Fear

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2022
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Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of its own real history, Mike Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease in an era of climate change and social change. With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.With a new 2021 afterword taking stock of LA's 21st century.
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Old Gods, New Enigmas

Old Gods, New Enigmas

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2025
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Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working blue collar jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an eighteen wheeler before his profile as one of the world's leading urbanists emerged with the publication of his sober, if dystopian survey of Los Angeles. Since then, he's developed a reputation not only for his caustic analysis of ecological catastrophe and colonial history, but as a stylist without peer.Old Gods, New Enigmas is Davis's book-length engagement with Karl Marx, marking the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth and exploring Davis's thinking on history, labor, capitalism, and revolution - themes ever present the early work from this leading radical thinker. This will be his first book on Marxism itself.In a time of ubiquitous disgust with political and economic elites, explores the question of revolutionary agency-what social forces and conditions do we need to transform the current order?-and the situation of the world's working classes from the US to Europe to China. Even the most preliminary tasks are daunting. A new theory of revolution needs to return to the big issues in classical socialist thought, such as clarifying "proletarian agency", before turning to the urgent questions of our time: global warming, the social and economic gutting of the rustbelt, and the city's demographic eclipse of the countryside. What does revolution look like after the end of history?
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The Monster Enters

The Monster Enters

Mike Davis

Verso Books
2022
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In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes. Now in this expanded edition of that 2005 book, Davis explains how the problems he warned of remain, and he sets the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of previous disastrous outbreaks, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least forty million people in three months and the Avian flu of a decade and a half ago. In language both accessible and authoritative, The Monster Enters surveys the scientific and political roots of today's viral apocalypse. In doing so it exposes the key roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments and a capitalist global system careening out of control, in creating the ecological pre-conditions for a plague that has brought much of human existence to a juddering halt.
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In Praise Of Barbarians

In Praise Of Barbarians

Mike Davis

Haymarket Books
2007
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No writer in the US today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.
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Los Angeles : Utgrävning av framtiden

Los Angeles : Utgrävning av framtiden

Mike Davis

Arkiv förlag/A-Z förlag
1998
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Ingen världsstad har blivit mer älskad och mer hatad än Los Angeles. Entusiasterna hävdar att den har allt. Belackarna ser den som en ständigt solbelyst avstjälpningsplats där människor förruttnar utan att märka det. För Mike Davis, författaren till denna intensiva, stilistiskt säkra och vittomspännande socialhistoriska skildring, är Los Angeles både utopi och dystopi, både drömfabrik och mardröm. Det är staden där de sista, unika Joshua-träden röjs undan för att bereda plats åt nya mönsterförorter och där de rika upprättat en egen poliskår som bekämpar gatugängen med vapen värdiga en mindre armé. Davis avslöjar dunkla kapitel i Los Angeles historia och dissekerar fastighetsspekulationen och narkotikaekonomin. Vi får reda på vilka som har makt och hur de behåller den, vi får en inblick i invandrarnas utsatthet, gängens brutalitet, de stora upploppen 1992, medelklassens privatiseringssträvanden och nya perspektiv på stadens viktiga kulturhistoriska roll. Davis skildring av Los Angeles är en både spännande och skrämmande utgrävning av vår möjliga framtid.
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Slum : världens storstäder

Slum : världens storstäder

Mike Davis

Arkiv förlag/A-Z förlag
2007
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Mer än en miljard människor bor i slum. I denna klartänkta och vittfamnande bok utforskar Mike Davis denna ojämlika och instabila värld. Han följer den från sextiotalets "hoppfulla slum" via innerstadsfattigdomens explosiva utveckling under sjuttio- och åttiotalen fram till dagens megaslumområden som Cono Sur i Lima, Sadr City i Bagdad och Ajegunle i Lagos. Urbanisering hänger inte längre ihop med industrialisering eller ens ekonomisk tillväxt. Davis skildrar en kolossal människomassa som samlas på bergsluttningar, i sumpmarker och intill soptippar, utestängda från den formella marknaden. Davis ger den första globala översikten över de olika religiösa, etniska och politiska rörelser som strider om de utblottades själar: hinduisk fundamentalism i Mumbai, den islamistiska motståndsrörelsen i Casablanca och Kairo, gatugäng i Kapstaden och San Salvador och pingstkyrkan i Kinshasa och Rio de Janeiro. Slum slutar med en betraktelse över "kriget mot terrorismen" som ett begynnande världskrig mellan det amerikanska imperiet och slummens fattiga.
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Ett monster vid vår dörr : fågelinfluensan som globalt hot.

Ett monster vid vår dörr : fågelinfluensan som globalt hot.

Mike Davis

Karneval förlag
2006
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1918-1919 dog mellan fyrtio miljoner och etthundra miljoner människor av en dittills okänd influensa som gått till historien som "spanska sjukan" - den dödligaste enskilda händelsen i mänsklighetens historia. 1997 utbröt i Hongkong en ny typ av influensa - H5N1 - som sedan dess spridit skräck över världen, trots att hittills "bara" cirka etthundra människor dött av den. Skräcken beror på att influensan visat sig vara extremt elakartad - två av tre människor som drabbats har dött. Om de virus som sprider denna influensa utvecklas och blir lika smittsamma som en vanlig förkylningsinfluensa skulle en ny pandemi, kanske lika dödlig som den 1918, vara ett faktum. WHO har talat om att etthundra miljoner människor kan dö. Förutsättningarna för en sådan katastrof finns tyvärr sedan länge, menar Mike Davis i "Ett monster vid vår dörr". Han pekar på den allt mer industrialiserade kycklingindustrin som med sina enorma anläggningar har skapat en ny ekologi som gör att virus kan mutera snabbare. Han pekar på den miljard människor som bor i extremt tätt befolkade städer i tredje världen - med usla sanitära förhållanden och utan tillgång till bra hälsovård skulle de vara helt oskyddade för ett utbrott av fågelinfluensan. Han pekar på de handlingsförlamade regeringar och giriga läkemedelsföretag som inte alls gjort tillräckligt för att skydda oss mot en pandemi. I "Ett monster vid vår dörr" skildrar Mike Davis på ett inträngande sätt hur och varför fågelinfluensan uppstod. Han tar också upp vad som är möjligt att göra för att motverka dess framfart. Boken är kompletterad med ett efterord ur svenskt perspektiv av Björn Olsen, professor i infektionssjukdomar, som också fackgranskat boken. Mike Davis är professor i historia vid University of California. På svenska har tidigare utgivits "Los Angeles: Utgrävning av framtiden" (Arkiv 1998) och "Svält och kolonialism" (Leopard 2004). Omdömen om den amerikanska utgåvan av boken: "Mike Davis har skrivit en fascinerande bok... en briljant och kortfattad jeremiad... Det kapitel där han förklarar virusets begeistring efter att mutera sig tillhör de finaste tio sidorna vetenskapsjournalistik som du antagligen någonsin kommer att få läsa." Matt Steinglass i New York Times "När TV-nyheter och tidningsrubriker tillkännager att en pandemi av fågelinfluensa är nära förestående, behöver vi genomtänkta och välavvägda analyser som sätter in hotet i ett sammanhang. 'Ett monster vid vår dörr' erbjuder just detta. Mike Davis ger en värdefull introduktion till influensavirusets biologi och dess bedrägliga evolutionära finter. Bokens verkliga styrka kommer sig emellertid av den skicklighet med vilken Davis skildrar hur mänsklig girighet, dårskap och politisk ambition på en rad olika sätt hotar vår förmåga att effektivt bemöta den senast uppkomna infektionssjukdom. Davis upplyser på ett föredömligt sätt läsaren om virusets intrikata genetik, men påminner oss också om att den molekylära grunden för viruset och dess smittosamhet bara är en del av historien. Vi kan inte göra mycket för att påverka hur influensans arvsmassa förändras, men vi kan förändra den mänskliga ekologi som gör pandemier möjliga. 'Ett monster vid vår dörr' är en maning till mänsklig solidaritet och till att förebyggande åtgärder och övervakningssystem måste byggas upp på internationell nivå." Robert Dorit i American Scientist
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