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The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-040-1
EAN 9781784780401
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes ...
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The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-561-7
EAN 9781781685617
New edition of controversial indictment against those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gainIconoclastic and controversial since its original publication in 2000, The Holocaust Industry is an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture, and a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. Drawing on ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 174 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-759-8
EAN 9781781687598
Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear familyAlthough family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family, with welfare services and trade unions alike taking it as a natural point of reference. The Anti-Social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-753-6
EAN 9781781687536
Groundbreaking examination of the birth, development and impact of Feminist consciousnessWhen it was initially published in 1973, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World was a groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points-social, sexual, cultural and economic-Sheila Rowbotham identifies the social conditions ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-614-0
EAN 9781781686140
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a secular Jew. With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he ...
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Out of Time
The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-299-9
EAN 9781781682999
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging.How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Out of Time looks ...
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24/7
Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-310-1
EAN 9781781683101
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.Jonathan Crary examines how this ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-170-1
EAN 9781781681701
The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, taking it in three principal directions. First, this book explores the specificity of social antagonisms and answers the question "What is an antagonistic relation?"-an issue which has become increasingly crucial in our globalized world, where ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-137-4
EAN 9781781681374
The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-316-3
EAN 9781781683163
Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be- the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure. He seduces by appealing to our desire ...
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The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-083-4
EAN 9781781680834
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Utopia or Bust
A Guide to the Present Crisis
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-327-9
EAN 9781781683279
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexploredoutside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel's Utopia or Bust leads readers - whether politically committed or simply ...
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Boy 30529
A Memoir
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-300-2
EAN 9781781683002
"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march.' These were ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-145-9
EAN 9781781681459
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Representing Capital
A Reading of Volume One
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-157-2
EAN 9781781681572
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new ...
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Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen
Egypt's Road to Revolt
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-142-8
EAN 9781781681428
Hazem Kandil presents the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath as the latest episodes in the ongoing power struggle between the three components of Egypt's authoritarian regime: the military, the security services and the political apparatus. A detailed study of the interactions within this invidious triangle over six decades of war, conspiracy and sociopolitical transformation, Soldiers, ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 139 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-153-4
EAN 9781781681534
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-155-8
EAN 9781781681558
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 252 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-147-3
EAN 9781781681473
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Less than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
- Verso Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1056 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-127-5
EAN 9781781681275
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ...
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