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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-815-6
EAN 9781788738156
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-248-2
EAN 9781788732482
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread ...
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The Care Manifesto
The Politics of Compassion
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-096-9
EAN 9781839760969
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care-childcare, healthcare, elder care-to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world.The ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-985-6
EAN 9781788739856
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-784-5
EAN 9781788737845
A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-756-7
EAN 9781786637567
What is the "populist moment" and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a "populist moment" that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier between "the people" and "the oligarchy," a left-populist ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-661-9
EAN 9781788736619
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-733-3
EAN 9781788737333
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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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-074-7
EAN 9781788730747
Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal upturning of a peasant society but also by the modernization and industrialization of the largest country ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-544-0
EAN 9781786635440
With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens by which many of us apprehend and communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-601-5
EAN 9781788736015
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample ...
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Banerjee, Tarun; Schwartz, Michael; Young, Kevin A
Levers of Power : How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do about It
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-096-9
EAN 9781788730969
Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them It's no secret that "the 1%" - the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions- exercise enormous control over U.S. government. While this control is usually attributed to campaign donations and ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-263-0
EAN 9781786632630
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness--for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-631-2
EAN 9781788736312
Exploring the philosophy of disobedience The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent ...
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Mondon, Aurelien; Winter, Aaron
Reactionary Democracy : How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-423-3
EAN 9781788734233
Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary. Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for reactionary ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-472-1
EAN 9781788734721
Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's ...
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Levine, Judith; Meiners, Erica R.
The Feminist and the Sex Offender : Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-340-3
EAN 9781788733403
A powerful case for freedom and transformation, for accountability and repair - the next course for feminism in the era of MeToo With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that, despite their inextricable linkages, are typically siloed in the era of MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1080 páginas
PVP: 40,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-022-7
EAN 9781784780227
A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-550-6
EAN 9781788735506
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life "Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-780-7
EAN 9781788737807
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking The Uses of Disorder, that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, ...
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