Commodity Books
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 12,601 ratings — published 1991
Perfectly Hedged A Practical Guide To Base Metals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12,880 ratings — published 2021
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 5,890 ratings — published 2020
The Cigarette: A Political History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 249 ratings — published 2019
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 119 ratings — published 2017
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 4,573 ratings — published 2011
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,550 ratings — published 1996
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,570 ratings — published 2004
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,089 ratings — published 2002
Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader: Lessons from 21 Weeks of Real Trading (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 306 ratings — published 2011
Energy Trading and Investing: Trading, Risk Management, And Structuring Deals In The Energy Markets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 110 ratings — published 2009
Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada's Sweetest Obsession (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 145 ratings — published
Our Members Be Unlimited: a comic about workers and their unions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 289 ratings — published 2022
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,588 ratings — published 2020
Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications (The Wiley Finance Series)
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avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 62 ratings — published 1992
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,754 ratings — published 2014
Managing Commodity Risk: Using Commodity Futures and Options (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2000
Commodity Options: Trading and Hedging Volatility in the World's Most Lucrative Market (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 28 ratings — published 2009
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 381,224 ratings — published 2000
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 4,736 ratings — published 2021
Energy Risk: Valuing and Managing Energy Derivatives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 1997
Tastes of Paradise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,365 ratings — published 1980
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 390 ratings — published
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 14,081 ratings — published 2022
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 719 ratings — published 2023
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 216 ratings — published 2001
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8,566 ratings — published 2023
Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,432 ratings — published 2025
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 364 ratings — published 2020
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 2,711 ratings — published 2009
Marx e a crítica do modo de representação capitalista (Portuguese Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Toxic: A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon (EthnoGRAPHIC)
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avg rating 3.89 — 63 ratings — published
A Little History of Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 15,939 ratings — published 2011
Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988 (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2021
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, 1952-2016: Central Bank of Oil (Financial Institutions, Reforms, and Policies in Muslim Countries)
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avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published
Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944–1971 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2009
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,996 ratings — published 2005
Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 491 ratings — published 2024
The Secret Life of LEGO® Bricks: The Story of a Design Icon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 86 ratings — published
How to Resist Amazon and Why (zine)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,775 ratings — published 2019
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 59 ratings — published
40 Classic Crude Oil Trades: Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading (Routledge Classic Market Trades)
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avg rating 4.36 — 50 ratings — published
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,137 ratings — published 2019
Silk: A World History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 575 ratings — published
The Mezzanine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 10,496 ratings — published 1988
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,978 ratings — published 2016
“Indeed, the utopian nature of a market society cannot be better illustrated than by the absurdities in which the commodity fiction in regard to labor must involve the community. The strike, this normal bargaining weapon of industrial action, was more and more frequently felt to be a wanton interruption of socially useful work, which, at the same time, diminished the social dividend out of which, ultimately, wages must come. Sympathy strikes were resented, general strikes were regarded as a threat to the existence of the community. Actually, strikes in vital services and public utilities held the citizens to ransom while involving them in the labyrinthine problem of the true functions of a labor market. Labor is supposed to find its price on the market, any other price than that so established being uneconomical. As long as labor lives up to this responsibility, it will behave as an element in the supply of that which it is, the commodity "labor," and will refuse to sell below the price which the buyer can still afford to pay. Consistently followed up, this means that the chief obligation of labor is to be almost continually on strike. The proposition could not be outbidden for sheer absurdity, yet it is only the logical inference from the commodity theory of labor. The source of the incongruity of theory and practice is, of course that labor is not really a commodity, and that if labor was withheld merely in order to ascertain its exact price (just as an increase in supply of all other commodities is withheld in similar circumstances society would very soon dissolve for lack of sustenance.”
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
“The social activity of
commodities on the market is to capitalist society what collective
intelligence is to a socialist society.”
― Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
commodities on the market is to capitalist society what collective
intelligence is to a socialist society.”
― Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development

