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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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The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1512 páginas
PVP: 46,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-560-0
EAN 9781781685600
Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volumeFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-031-9
EAN 9781784780319
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Private Island
Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-290-6
EAN 9781781682906
How the UK government sold itself to the highest bidder: A searing anatomy of privatized Britain by an award-winning writerSince the age of Margaret Thatcher, successive British governments have sold off their best assets: gas, electricity, the railways networks, telecommunications, arms manufacture, are now all in the hands of foreign corporations. The fall of publically ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-575-4
EAN 9781781685754
This collection of radio transcripts brings together some of the legendary theorist's most accessible and fascinating thinking. An indispensable addition to the Walter Benjamin library.From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than 80 broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving texts ...
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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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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-682-9
EAN 9781781686829
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 Zizek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian psychoanalysis, ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-263-0
EAN 9781781682630
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been ...
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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-298-2
EAN 9781781682982
One hundred kilometers from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the center of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. Today, Marinaleda is a place where the farms and the processing plants are collectively owned and provide work for everyone who wants it.As Spain's crisis ...
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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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