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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-658-8
EAN 9781784786588
Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived.This is the subject of Christian Salmon's Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-78478-052-4
EAN 9781784780524
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-78478-693-9
EAN 9781784786939
A brilliant novel spanning the lives of a family of activists from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet UnionFor some East Germans, the fall of Communism was like the end of a long and painful love affair: free to tell the truth at last, they found they no longer wanted to hear ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-78478-743-1
EAN 9781784787431
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the presentWe live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to ...
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Essays that trace the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinkerMarshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But ...
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The BBC: the mouth piece of the EstablishmentThe BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain. And it is also one of the most misunderstood. Since its founding, the BBC has been the servant of the establishment. Despite its pleas of impartiality and fairness, and the constant accusations of favouring the liberal point ...
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What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution?The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectuals, and writers, as they struggled to accept and account for their defeat in the light of divine Providence. Christopher Hill's close analysis of the writings ...
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Preacher, Soldier, Rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most significant works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, there was a time when almost every household in Britain was more likely to have a copy than ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-584-0
EAN 9781784785840
A major new work of art criticism from John Berger, one the world's leading art writersWorld-renowned art writer John Berger is acclaimed for bringing new perspectives to the ways in which we engage with art. His successful collection Portraits took us on a captivating journey through centuries of art, situating each artist in their political ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-401-0
EAN 9781784784010
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimperIn How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the capitalist ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-760-8
EAN 9781784787608
Five hundred year anniversary edition of Thomas More's Utopia, with new essays in response from Ursula K. Le Guin and an introduction by China MiévilleFive hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's astonishingly radical Utopia continues to shape utopian fiction today. More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, ...
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The genealogy of today's disruptive protest movementsFrom environmental activists chaining themselves to logging equipment and blockading nuclear plants to Global Justice protesters disrupting the World Trade Organization summit to Black Lives Matter shutting down freeways, direct action protest has been a defining feature of radical activism in the United States over the last 40 years. ...
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The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London's East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-388-4
EAN 9781784783884
A gripping narrative history of the English Revolution and the radical LevellersThe Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-690-8
EAN 9781784786908
The Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality.But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels' most important work. Rather, ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-408-9
EAN 9781784784089
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the ...
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A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, memoir (or memorabile), folk tale and joke: these are the nine simple forms which, according to Jolles, structure language before a word is uttered, reflecting fundamental ways in which humans engage with their environment and one another.Long ...
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The classic work of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungleMore Brilliant Than the Sun is one of the most extraordinary books on music ever written. Part manifesto for a militant posthumanism, part journey through the unacknowledged traditions of diasporic science fiction and part conceptual toolkit for the uses of alienation, this book finds the future shock ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
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PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-449-2
EAN 9781784784492
Charting the faults lines of the Middle East since 9/11, award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our ageThis is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Diaries, Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of ...
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The story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the 20th centuryRebel Crossings opens up a forgotten chapter in the history of radicalism, shedding new light on lives committed to change and hope for a better future. This is an extraordinary work of archival history of great ambition: Rowbtham uncovered six lives that have ...
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