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I learned to realize that the books would make me lettered, but would never make me a human being.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), Letters

Publishers on the Web

• READMORE's Publisher Services gives a detailed list of links to publishers
• South End Press (Books that inspire radical social change). This publisher carries many books by, among others, Noam Chomsky or bell hooks.
• Common Courage Press (Books for an Informed Democracy). Common Courage began publishing in 1991 with the highly successful title Mobilizing Democracy: Changing the US Role in the Middle East, which gave them the financial foundation to start publishing a wide spectrum of books. Also published by them: Race For Justice, which documents the court battles of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
• Al `Asabiyah carries a number of interesting books on a wide variety of subjects, not all linked to the Middle East. "Our books lean toward a strong criticism of the 'world' for the purpose of representing an isolated and unheard view. We have over fifty difficult-to-find titles from both well-known publishers and independent publishers nation wide, in the hope that we may contribute to the long awaited awakening of those who are slumbering."
• An excellent list of publishers with anarchist emphasis can be found at Spunk Press.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library provides further links to publishers.
• Yahoo list of publishing companies, includes a short description of most of the publishers.

Virtual Bookshops

• Amazon.com - Earth's Biggest Bookstore. "2.5 million titles: 1.5 million books in print & 1 million out-of-print books."