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Autism Is Not A Disease
The Politics of Neurodiversity
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-153-5
EAN 9781804291535
Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a 'normal' brain. But society is still organised around neuronormativity, and autism is treated as a disease.Jodie ...
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- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-750-6
EAN 9781804297506
Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In the Destruction of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing ...
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Cyberboss
The Rise of Algorithmic Management And The New Struggle for Control at Work
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-855-2
EAN 9781839768552
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies. In Cyberboss, Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms rule to excavate the politics behind the newest form of managerial power.Combining ...
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Lifehouse
Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-835-4
EAN 9781788738354
A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities. In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, ...
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- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-537-3
EAN 9781804295373
Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women's art. There she discovers one side of a correspondence beginning in 1976 and spanning a dozen years, written from one woman - a ...
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New Radical Enlightenment
Philosophy for a Common World
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-298-7
EAN 9781839762987
This book calls for a new radical enlightenment, a combative attitude against the credulities and oppressions of our time. Today, when historical time has broken down and the present is a succession of catastrophes, who is still in a position to think critically? There seem to be only two alternatives: condemnation or salvation. This dilemma ...
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Ideology
An Introduction
- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-468-0
EAN 9781804294680
Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those already familiar with the debates around the concept, the celebrated literary theorist Terry Eagleton unravels its many definitions, exploring ...
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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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- Verso Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-711-7
EAN 9781804297117
Mural is the testimony of one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile.Here, his close friends John ...
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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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