In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy.
Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums.
A bold collection of essays and polemics from the world-renowned social critic Mike Davis.
Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.
Bestselling genealogy of modern terrorism through a fascinating 100-year history of the car bomb
New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist
A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the sixties.
A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees.
This book provides photographers with the foundation to craft more compelling photos from concept all the way through to creation and distribution.
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
A groundbreaking study of Latinization in the urban US landscape, a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications