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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-110-7
EAN 9781786631107
At the end of his life, Lenin wrote 'we didn't know everything', acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on the road to revolution in 1917 and beyond. In this unusual exploration of the crises that Lenin overcame, the decisions he made, and actions that he took, Tariq Ali reveals an insightful political portrait of this most ...
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The H-Word
The Peripeteia of Hegemony
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-368-2
EAN 9781786633682
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about theirexact meaning, as hegemony. In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece, its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848-9 in Germany, and then ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-439-3
EAN 9781784784393
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelection ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-148-4
EAN 9781784781484
One of the world s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice "Bad New Days" examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-171-2
EAN 9781784781712
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-277-1
EAN 9781784782771
Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history.In February 1917, in ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-082-7
EAN 9781786630827
Essays on judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politicsIn these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth ...
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Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-136-1
EAN 9781784781361
Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with conventional declarations of war and finished with 'unconditional ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-208-5
EAN 9781784782085
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world's leading playwrights, set to images of the Second World WarIn this singular book written during the Second World War, the renowned playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht has taken photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and montaged short epigraph poems to each, in a unique ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-078-0
EAN 9781786630780
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be ...
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Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
The Shock of the Anthropocene : The Earth, History, and Us
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-503-1
EAN 9781784785031
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-242-5
EAN 9781786632425
Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of twenty-five Books to Remember 2000 by the New York Public LibraryIs there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? In a unique new book, Mike Marqusee puts ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
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PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-984-4
EAN 9781781689844
The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more ...
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Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns internationalism, education, the future of labor, ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-704-7
EAN 9781844677047
New in paperback: Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics.In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed ...
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The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from ...
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Kaufmann, Stephen; Stützle, Ingo
Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century' : An Introduction
An introduction to Thomas Piketty's monumental workUS Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman described it as perhaps the most important book of the last decade . Thomas Piketty's Capitalin the 21st Century has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm - as well as intense criticism - in a way ...
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