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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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Utopia or Bust
A Guide to the Present Crisis
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-327-9
EAN 9781781683279
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexploredoutside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel's Utopia or Bust leads readers - whether politically committed or simply ...
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Boy 30529
A Memoir
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-300-2
EAN 9781781683002
"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march.' These were ...
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The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-856-3
EAN 9781844678563
Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, ...
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Profiting without Producing
How Finance Exploits us All
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-141-1
EAN 9781781681411
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-145-9
EAN 9781781681459
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-154-1
EAN 9781781681541
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed ...
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Representing Capital
A Reading of Volume One
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-157-2
EAN 9781781681572
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new ...
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Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen
Egypt's Road to Revolt
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-142-8
EAN 9781781681428
Hazem Kandil presents the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath as the latest episodes in the ongoing power struggle between the three components of Egypt's authoritarian regime: the military, the security services and the political apparatus. A detailed study of the interactions within this invidious triangle over six decades of war, conspiracy and sociopolitical transformation, Soldiers, ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-151-0
EAN 9781781681510
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. Including his ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 139 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-153-4
EAN 9781781681534
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-155-8
EAN 9781781681558
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 260 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-149-7
EAN 9781781681497
This volume collects Georg Lukács's articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism-which earned Lukács the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin-this book is a treasure chest of valuable insights from one ...
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