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Books by Mike Davis






Old Gods, New Enigmas(Reprint)
Marx's Lost Theory (Paperback)
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 320 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-217-8, ISBN: 1-78873-217-0






The Monster at Our Door(1st Edition)
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
द्वारा Mike Davis
Hardcover, 212 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2005 द्वारा New Press, The
ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-011-5, ISBN: 1-59558-011-5

"From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat."We are talking at least seven million deaths, but maybe more—10 million, 20 million, and the worst case, 100 million."—Shigeru Omi, Regional Director, western pacific office of the World Health Organization, November 2004Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strai ..."






Magical Urbanism
Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City
द्वारा Mike Davis, Michael Sprinker
Paperback, 192 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2001 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-328-4, ISBN: 1-85984-328-X

"Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic an ..."






Ecology of Fear(1st Edition)
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
द्वारा Mike Davis, Ezra Pound
Hardcover, 484 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1998 द्वारा Metropolitan Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5106-3, ISBN: 0-8050-5106-6

"The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes: "The destructive February 1992, January 1993 and January 1995 floods ($500 million damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's ..."






Creating Visual Narratives Through Photography(1st Edition)
A Fresh Approach to Making a Living as a Photographer
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 228 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2022 द्वारा Taylor And Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-226285-7, ISBN: 1-03-226285-0






In Praise of Barbarians(1st Edition)
Essays against Empire
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Haymarket Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-931859-42-4, ISBN: 1-931859-42-6

"The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men’s burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year ..."






Planet of Slums(Reprint)
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 228 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-160-1, ISBN: 1-84467-160-7

"A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.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 in ..."






Ecology of Fear(1st Edition)
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 496 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1999 द्वारा Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70607-3, ISBN: 0-375-70607-0

"The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes: "The destructive February 1992, January 1993 and January 1995 floods ($500 million damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's ..."






How to Teach Continuing Medical Education(1st Edition)
द्वारा Mike Davis, Kirsty Forrest, Langdon Davis, Ros Roden
Paperback, 142 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2008 द्वारा Bmj Books
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5398-0, ISBN: 1-4051-5398-9

"This new volume in the concise "How To" series explores the foundations and principles of continuing education of professionals and then relates these to the practice of teaching the various modalities used in CME. The areas covered include experiential learning, group dynamics, situated learning and reflective practice - and make these understandable for all health professionals tasked with teaching continuing medical education. An ide ..."






CITY OF QUARTZ(Updated)
EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES
द्वारा Mike Davis, Robert Morrow
Paperback, 441 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-568-5, ISBN: 1-84467-568-8

"Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Span ..."






Dead Cities(Updated)
And Other Tales
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 448 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2003 द्वारा New Press, The
ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-844-3, ISBN: 1-56584-844-6

"A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment. The storm is here, crushed dams no longer hold, the savage seas come inland with a hop.—Jacob van Hoddis As Mike Davis shows, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Beginning with a trip to New York's Ground Zero, Davis pairs the horror of lower Manhattan's falling skyscrapers with Las Vegas' delirious delight in blowing up its landmark hotels, where ..."






Evil Paradises
Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
द्वारा Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Paperback, 336 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2008 द्वारा The New Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-392-5, ISBN: 1-59558-392-0

" Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as "utopias" in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are sh ..."






Red Dirt
Growing Up Okie
द्वारा Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Davis
Paperback, 248 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3775-9, ISBN: 0-8061-3775-4

"Now a professor of ethnic studies in California, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz turns her eye back to her own roots as a "Dust Bowl Baby" in rural Oklahoma. In telling the story of her family and their hardships in the Depression, Dunbar-Ortiz introduces the reader to some fascinating characters who are certainly not the "white trash" caricatures of popular belief. Interspersed well with her own story are historical facts that give depth to ..."






Set the Night on Fire
Los Angeles in the Sixties
द्वारा Mike Davis, Jonathan Wiener
Hardcover, 800 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2020 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-022-7, ISBN: 1-78478-022-7

"A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation--and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of "Asian Am ..."






Introduction to Gsm
Physical Channels, Logical Channels, Network Functions, and Operation (Paperback Or Softback)
द्वारा Lawrence Harte, Mike Davis, Bruce Bromley
Paperback, 112 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2011 द्वारा Phoenix Global Support
ISBN-13: 978-1-932813-85-2, ISBN: 1-932813-85-3

"This book explains the basic components, technologies used, and operation of GSM systems. This book starts with the system components and basic services that the GSM system can provide. You will learn that the key types of GSM devices include single mode and dual mode mobile telephones, wireless PCMCIA cards, embedded radio modules, and external radio modems. You will then discover the different types of available services such as multi ..."






Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
द्वारा Mike Davis
Paperback, 228 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2008 द्वारा Verso
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-294-3, ISBN: 1-84467-294-8

"In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's 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 a ..."






Victory Gardens 2007+(1st Edition)
द्वारा Amy Franceschini, Mike Davis, Lucy R. Lippard
Hardcover, 101 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2008 द्वारा Gallery 16 Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9777442-6-8, ISBN: 0-9777442-6-4

"Art. Culturally Writing. VICTORY GARDENS 2007+ chronicles Amy Franceschini's inspired reimagining of the original wartime Victory Garden program. The book features essays by Lucy Lippard and Mike Davis along with historical photos and context, and project documentation and insight. Franceschini's Victory Gardens 2007+ was presented as a series of actions, sculptural icons, and ephemera during the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA ..."






Planet of Slums(1st Edition)
द्वारा Mike Davis
Hardcover, 228 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-022-2, ISBN: 1-84467-022-8

"Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.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 ..."






Au-delà de Blade Runner
Los Angeles et l'imagination du dà sastre
द्वारा Mike Davis, Arnaud Pouillot
Poche, 154 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Editions Allia
ISBN-13: 978-2-84485-204-5, ISBN: 2-84485-204-1

"[La Parabole du semeur ; trad. par Philippe Rouard-Vauvert, Au Diable Vauvert, 2oo1.] 7. Ernest Burgess, "The Growth ofthe City : An Introduction to a Research Project", Publications of the American Sociological Society 18, 1924, pp.85-97 et  ..."






No One Is Illegal
Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
द्वारा Mike Davis, Justin Akers Chacon, Julian Cardona
Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Haymarket Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-931859-35-6, ISBN: 1-931859-35-3

"“A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.”—Susan Faludi “[Davis’ writing is] perceptive and rigorous.”—David Montgomery, The Nation “[Davis’ work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.”—The Village Voice “[Davis’ work is] eloquent and passionate.”—Tariq Ali No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigr ..."



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