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Class War
A literary history
NOVEDAD!!- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-069-3
EAN 9781839760693
A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-849-1
EAN 9781839768491
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and ...
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Taking A Long Look
Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
- Verso Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-509-4
EAN 9781839765094
For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of ...
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Climate Leviathan
A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
- Verso Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-445-0
EAN 9781786634450
How climate change will affect our political theory-for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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The walker
On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-892-7
EAN 9781788738927
Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?There is no such thing as ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-118-8
EAN 9781788731188
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-401-1
EAN 9781839764011
With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-588-9
EAN 9781788735889
For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. In this rigorusly researched factual novel-drawn ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-734-0
EAN 9781788737340
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered ...
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The Great Recoil
Politics after Populism and Pandemic
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-050-1
EAN 9781788730501
In this era of economic crisis, social distress, and ecological threats, the term "populism" has come to sum up anxiety about our political future. While it is mostly associated with rightwing demagogues such as Donald Trump, Matteo Salvini and Jair Bolsonaro, various figures of the "post-crash Left", such as Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Pablo ...
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Feminist Antifascism
Counterpublics of the Common
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-116-4
EAN 9781839761164
In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world-spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle, that can challenge the emergence of fascist states as well as Western democratic "public spheres" populated by atomized, individual subjects. Drawing from Eastern Europe and the Global South, ...
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China in One Village
The Story of One Town and the Changing World
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,85 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-177-5
EAN 9781839761775
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-310-6
EAN 9781788733106
Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret.When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-632-9
EAN 9781788736329
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-955-9
EAN 9781788739559
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society. In this elegant book, Erik ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-090-7
EAN 9781839760907
Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making: but this is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the way, there have been shocking and exhilarating events: ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-677-5
EAN 9781786636775
In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ...
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Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide. It is clear that democracy - the principle of government by and for the people - is not living ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-092-1
EAN 9781839760921
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from "salt of the earth" to "scum of the earth." Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-815-6
EAN 9781788738156
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