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Work
The Last 1,000 Years
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-413-9
EAN 9781786634139
Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation ...
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Against Landlords
How to Solve the Housing Crisis
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-387-4
EAN 9781804293874
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions.Homelessness is at a new high. Yet the government's only solution ...
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- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-156-6
EAN 9781804291566
A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite ...
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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-185-6
EAN 9781804291856
Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale-from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane EyreWhen the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her ...
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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-128-6
EAN 9781784781286
In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan's native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the nineteenth century, helping to shape the political life of a continent. The barricade was always a makeshift construction (the word ...
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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-044-6
EAN 9781804290446
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life. In A Philosophy of Walking, ...
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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-640-4
EAN 9781839766404
Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, ...
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Bad Gays
A Homosexual History
- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-328-1
EAN 9781839763281
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveals more than ...
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Writers and Missionaries
Essays on the Radical Imagination
- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-059-0
EAN 9781804290590
Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics? And, in an age of horror and crisis, what ...
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The Palestine Laboratory
How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-208-6
EAN 9781839762086
WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON-FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank ...
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Class War
A literary history
- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-069-3
EAN 9781839760693
A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives ...
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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-849-1
EAN 9781839768491
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and ...
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Post-Growth Living
For an Alternative Hedonism
- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-890-3
EAN 9781788738903
The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how ...
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Taking A Long Look
Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
- Verso Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-509-4
EAN 9781839765094
For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of ...
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Climate Leviathan
A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
- Verso Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-445-0
EAN 9781786634450
How climate change will affect our political theory-for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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The walker
On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-892-7
EAN 9781788738927
Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?There is no such thing as ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-118-8
EAN 9781788731188
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-401-1
EAN 9781839764011
With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-588-9
EAN 9781788735889
For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. In this rigorusly researched factual novel-drawn ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-734-0
EAN 9781788737340
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered ...
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