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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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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-548-8
EAN 9781781685488
WOLFGANG STREECK is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and professor of sociology at the University of Cologne. He has previously held positions in Frankfurt, New York, Munster, and Berlin, and he was professor of sociology and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is an Honorary ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-261-6
EAN 9781781682616
The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of Greenwich ...
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Jeffrey Sachs
The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-329-3
EAN 9781781683293
An investigation of Sachs's schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and described by the New York Times as "probably the most important economist in the world," Sachs is also a "celebrity economist", regularly canoodling with the ...
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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-302-6
EAN 9781781683026
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity are as strong as ever. Never ...
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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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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-306-4
EAN 9781781683064
""She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meaning: belongingness ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-342-2
EAN 9781781683422
Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike "the enemy within." With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain's ...
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