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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Verso Books, 2017
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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
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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 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 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: 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
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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