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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-092-6
EAN 9781786630926
Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made", The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous for having been the first to propose the so-called Bernal Sphere, a type of space habitat intended for permanent residence. Written by one of the most well-known and controversial ...
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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-100-8
EAN 9781786631008
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-426-9
EAN 9781786634269
Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the philosophy of science, Sheehan shows how Marx's and Engel's ideas on the development and structure of natural science had ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-410-8
EAN 9781786634108
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world-whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-085-2
EAN 9781784780852
Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a new mode of dialectical resistance, countering notions of the "state of exception" embedded in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-288-3
EAN 9781786632883
Mainstream politics is stuck, torn between the redundant doctrines of Keynesianism and neoliberalism. Neither have much to offer a world facing environmental collapse, civic breakdown and a gathering crisis of permanent unemployment. This dismal, managerial politics fails to articulate a vision of a better world, driving people towards the anti-politics offered by Donald Trump and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-188-6
EAN 9781786631886
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-196-1
EAN 9781786631961
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78663-296-8
EAN 9781786632968
The Weight of Things is the first book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007), and the first to be translated into English. After winning acclaim with this novel - awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 - she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called 'The Fortress,' which earned her cult status, comparisons ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,41 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-319-8
EAN 9781784783198
"Latinx" (pronounced 'La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants. It is the poorest ethnic group in the country, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-299-9
EAN 9781786632999
Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda-and for the first time in Labour's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-054-4
EAN 9781786630544
The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted interpretation in exploring the critical role fanaticism played in forming modern politics and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 225 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-132-9
EAN 9781786631329
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans, that we decided ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 242 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4
EAN 9781784784744
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-295-5
EAN 9781784782955
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,98 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-106-0
EAN 9781786631060
Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love. In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres of our lives-work, knowledge, cities, politics- have fallen into the hands of box tickers, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-190-9
EAN 9781786631909
A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-068-1
EAN 9781786630681
Expanded new edition of Ellen Wood's classic, pithy account of capitalism's originsIn this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-030-8
EAN 9781786630308
As capitalism takes over all the hours of our conscious life, it is also invading our subconscious - there is no time to take respite from the economic treadmill. The rising mental health problems throughout the world can no longer be seen as personal or family failings, but as responses to a desperate political and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-019-3
EAN 9781786630193
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The "ten myths" that Pappe explores-repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the ...
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