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.
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.