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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- 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 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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