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A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3214-7
EAN 9780745332147
This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and ...
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The Therapy Industry
The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why it Doesn't Work
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-2986-4
EAN 9780745329864
Across the world anxiety, stress and depression are on the increase, a trend which looks set to continue as austerity measures bite. The official response tells people that unhappiness is just a personal problem, rather than a social one.Written by a practising psychologist, with nearly thirty years' experience in the fields of mental health and ...
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Ressler, Oliver; Sholette, Gregory
It's the Political Economy, Stupid
The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 31,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3369-4
EAN 9780745333694
It's the Political Economy, Stupid brings together internationally acclaimed artists and thinkers, including Slavoj i ek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian Holmes, to focus on the current economic crisis in a sustained and critical manner.Following a unique format, images and text are integrated in a visually stunning bespoke production by activist designer Noel Douglas. ...
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The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3189-8
EAN 9780745331898
The concept of democracy has become tarnished in recent years, as governments become disconnected from voters and pursue unpopular policies. And yet the ideal of democracy continues to inspire movements around the world, such as the Arab Spring.Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist theoretical framework. He traces the history of democracy ...
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- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3195-9
EAN 9780745331959
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. ...
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Bleakonomics
. A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction A Heartwarming to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3267-3
EAN 9780745332673
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.Written for anyone who is wondering how we've come to this point, Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. ...
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Gerrard Winstanley
The Digger's Life and Legacy
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3183-6
EAN 9780745331836
'The power of property was brought into creation by the sword', so wrote Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) - Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy. Despite being one of the great English radicals, Winstanley remains unmentioned in today's lists of 'great Britons'. John Gurney reveals the hidden history of ...
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- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3213-0
EAN 9780745332130
The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth, and now twenty-first, century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period. The Palestine-Israel Conflict is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated ...
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A People's History of the Second World War
Resistance versus Empire
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-2802-7
EAN 9780745328027
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were ...
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- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3274-1
EAN 9780745332741
This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, ...
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Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3193-5
EAN 9780745331935
Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have ...
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Making the World Safe for Capitalism
How Iraq threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be destroyed. How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3222-2
EAN 9780745332222
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.Christopher Doran provides a unique perspective, arguing that the drive to war ...
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The Accidental Capitalist
A people s story of the new China
In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities. Through months of sustained interpersonal contact with migrant workers and factory owners, Behzad Yaghmaian paints a unique portrait of a country experiencing the turmoil of ...
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' Badiou's theory enacts a return to full-blown philosophy that strikes as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes... Badiou aims at the very heart of politically correct 'radical' intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!' Slavoj Zizek, Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana Alain Badiou is ...
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A New Generation Draws The Line
Humanitarian Intervention and the Standards of the West
- Pluto Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3234-5
EAN 9780745332345
How do we understand the ethics of humanitarian intervention in today's world? After Western intervention in Libya's civil war this new edition of A New Generation Draws the Line provides timely answers. In a new chapter on recent interventions Chomsky dissects the meaning of the 'right to protect' principle. Other chapters examine the West's uses ...
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- Pluto Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3076-1
EAN 9780745330761
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