Editorial Verso Books
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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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- 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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