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Politics in a Time of Crisis
Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-335-8
EAN 9781784783358
A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform EuropeSince 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the ideological motives behind European austerity, revealing the true nature of this power ...
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Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-199-6
EAN 9781784781996
Philosophical materialism in all its forms from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj i ek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian ...
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No God but Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-807-6
EAN 9781781688076
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of ...
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Man Tiger
Longlisted 2016 Booker Prize
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-859-5
EAN 9781781688595
"After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitanism, and ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramoedya, universally considered Indonesia's modern ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-226-9
EAN 9781784782269
Why money makes the world go round The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's investigation into Karl Marx's conception of the money commodity brings vital discussion to commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism and how it can be ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-229-0
EAN 9781784782290
This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of value. The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, Why is Marx's theory of value important?
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-232-0
EAN 9781784782320
A clear and compact guide to Marx's road to Das Kapital Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an overview of the debates and discussions central to Marxist economic theory.
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Inequality and the 1%
Critical Perspectives 1836-2005
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-207-8
EAN 9781784782078
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.But inequality is more ...
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Flassbeck, Heiner; Lapavitsas, Costas
Against the Troika
Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-313-6
EAN 9781784783136
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerityOn the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-004-9
EAN 9781781680049
The Stone Woman is the third novel of Tariq Ali's "Islam Quartet." Like its predecessors - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and The Book of Saladin - its power lies both in the story-telling and the challenge it poses to stereotyped images of life under Islam.
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-876-2
EAN 9781781688762
Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels, dusting Cuban crops with insects, and opening fire with machine guns on Cuban beaches. They flew old American war planes into the Caribbean island's airspace and interfered with Havana Airport's air traffic control. Havana ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 212 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-871-7
EAN 9781781688717
No great socialist thinker has been so often misrepresented as the Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. In this scrupulous study, tightly argued, Geras systematically considers and refutes the major myths which have developed about her work. He shows how her views on socialist strategy in Russia were closer to those of Lenin than any other leader, ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-894-6
EAN 9781781688946
A clearly written and highly organized introduction of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar, and Africa throughout the twentieth century to develop Lacanian psychoanalytic methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known for his research on the psychic affects of colonization: domination of a ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-845-8
EAN 9781781688458
When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run for the greatest benefit of the greatest number, he posed two problems: what is happiness and how can we measure it? With the rise of positive psychology, freakonimics, behavioural economics, endless TED talks, the happiness manifesto, the Happiness Index, the tyranny of customer service, the emergence of ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 122 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-869-4
EAN 9781781688694
An urgent and provocative account of the modern x{0026}lsquo;militantx{0026}rsquo;, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badioux{0026}rsquo;s contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-867-0
EAN 9781781688670
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, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-839-7
EAN 9781781688397
The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reappropriating public and private spaces, reorienting them towards a new function in common. A return to the great 19th century insurrection that most fully instantiated urban insurrection may well be due.Communal Luxury revisits what Marx called the ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-837-3
EAN 9781781688373
It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. NietzscheIn A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble and reveals what they say about us.Gros draws attention to ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-067-8
EAN 9781784780678
In the wake of Israel's recent bombing of Gaza, polls revealed a startling fact: for the first time, a majority of Americans under thirty found Israel's actions unjustified. Jon Stewart aired a blistering attack on Israeli violence, and a video of a UN spokesperson weeping as he was interviewed in Gaza went viral, appearing on ...
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