We live in a debt-based society. Yet how often do we consider how the concept of 'debt' even came about? Has it just always been around? Has it been different in other times and places? David Graeber takes his anthropologist's sharpened skill of observation and combines it with his usual wit and anecdotal charm to upend our usual manner of thinking about money, debt, and the economy. A wild tour of historical and ethnographic data, Debt is enjoyable, intriguing, and challenging. He'll have you wondering: who should really pay their debts?

How do we "go from being in the wind, grouped in whirlwinds, to making a revolution"? The editors of this volume, in order to answer this question, bring together theoretical pieces on social change with case studies and profiles of on-the-ground organizations doing the difficult work of resisting destructive social systems while building socially just alternatives. Written for the 2010 US Social Forum, it remains a prime example of the type of intellectual work we need if we want to see genuine, truly democratic and sustainable change here in the United States.

Objectivity is a widely accepted value in our culture; we praise journalists, scientists, and public intellectuals and leaders when their work or decisions are "objective." But in this fascinating look at the history of objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Gallison document the ways in which the concept of objectivity itself, especially in the sciences, has changed through time. What counts as an "objective" viewpoint has shifted as our technologies for viewing the world around us have changed, leaving us to puzzle over both what objectivity is and what social value it should have.