Editorial Verso Books
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-819-9
EAN 9781781688199
A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza spent the most intense years of his short life writing. A sporadic draughtsman, he also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-801-4
EAN 9781781688014
A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlandsThe Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become internationally notorious for violence, as drug cartel battles and official corruption have colluded to produce more murders annually than in war-torn Afghanistan. Ninety-seven percent of the killings in Juarez remain unsolved, contributing ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 34,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-795-6
EAN 9781781687956
Before the age of the gas lamp, the city at night was a different place, home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctiambulators. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beautmont shines a light on the dark perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers from Shakespeare, the ecstatic strolls of William Blake, the feverish ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-799-4
EAN 9781781687994
Are we entitled to say that Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred years after the century of Enlightenment, the fact that these assertions constitute what it is ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-817-5
EAN 9781781688175
The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-816-8
EAN 9781781688168
Through a forensic study of the personal papers of many of the key figures on both sides of the debate, historian Douglas Newton pieces together what really went on in the frenetic weeks between the assassination in Sarajevo and the declaration of war on August 4, 1914.Many recently published histories of Britain's Great War embrace ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-810-6
EAN 9781781688106
Mythmaking is as central to sustaining our present economy as profit-making. In the 1980s, Thatcher and Reagan's stories about welfare queens, greedy workers and the beauty of the free market cleared the way for an assault on organized labor that led to the boom times of the 1990s. With severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, lousy ...
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Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report represents a fascinating and unusual return to the very earliest phase of Holocaust testimony. Auschwitz Report details the author's harrowing account of his deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work and extermination, as well as ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-818-2
EAN 9781781688182
In the classic tradition of the philosopher activist, Daniel Bensaid tells the story of a life deeply entwined with the history of both the French and the international Left. From his family bistro in a staunchly red neighborhood of Toulouse to the founding of the Jeunesses communistes revolutionnaires in the 1960s, from the joyous explosion ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-015-9
EAN 9781784780159
Raymond Williams has made a central contribution to the culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by members of the New Left Review editorial committee, that is designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-667-6
EAN 9781781686676
Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach with its role as the ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-593-8
EAN 9781781685938
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The WireIn his new masterpiece of cultural analysis, Fredric Jameson offers us an idiosyncratic examination of what might be called a provisional or disposable canon-what aesthetic history might look at as we enter an age of the immediate and of the unimaginable overpopulation of art and culture. With ...
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Class War Conservatism
And Other Essays
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-770-3
EAN 9781781687703
The essential essay collection by one of Britain's leading Marxist sociologistsIn 2013, The Daily Mail called Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain" for his anti-Free Market, socialist opinions. Class Power and State Power collects together his most significant political essays and shows the range and brilliance of his thinking. From the crisis of Labor ...
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Operation Ajax
The Story of the CIA Coup that remade the Middle East
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-923-3
EAN 9781781689233
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran's democracyThe year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers are taking an increased interest in the ruling political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation, with the tacit approval of the Shah, ...
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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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Straight Sex
The Politics of Pleasure
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-756-7
EAN 9781781687567
A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinkerIs heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five years tackles these questions head on. Only two ...
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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, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-762-8
EAN 9781781687628
Classic statement of socialist feminism, from one of its leading thinkersCombining the energy of the early 70s feminist liberation movement, with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Women's Estate was one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time. Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground ...
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