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Meltdown is a gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West's investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Covering the development of the crisis from the economic front line, Paul Mason explores the roots of the US and UK's financial hubris, documenting the real-world ...
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In America, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-- a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensityA"--Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of ...
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The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-establishment of fear. In attempting to interpret sucha a revcolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary - someone who can help us with our own ethical dilemmas ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-649-1
EAN 9781844676491
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-597-5
EAN 9781844675975
Ronald Fraser is an internationally renowned chronicler of other people's experience. In Search of a Past is his remarkable account of his own origins. Born in Hamburg in 1930, he settled in the Home Counties at three years of age with his wealthy American mother and Scots father to enter the life of the energetically ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 602 páginas
PVP: 25,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-631-6
EAN 9781844676316
Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought successfully to feed upon this commerce and unsuccessfully to ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 378 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-635-4
EAN 9781844676354
In this classic work, which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns upside down the vision of societies marked by modernization and forward-thrusting ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-633-0
EAN 9781844676330
The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of modes of consciousness to root the development of printing in ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 420 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-644-6
EAN 9781844676446
All That Is Sold Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture. is a dazzling exploration ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-621-7
EAN 9781844676217
Hitchcock gets onto the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, which is shown to be an exemplary source of postmodern defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning, the authors ...
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Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
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This is the new edition of Booker prize winning author's classic third novel.
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-616-3
EAN 9781844676163
In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text the Phenomenology of Spirit. In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in ...
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- Verso Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-623-1
EAN 9781844676231
Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historianAll modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth. The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of ...
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