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- Zed Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 41,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78699-272-7
EAN 9781786992727
For centuries, the land of Palestine has been fought over by competing faiths, nations and empires. Today, even the name itself has become a battleground for conflicting Israeli and Palestinian visions of the country's past. Israelis treat the very notion of 'Palestine' as a modern invention, while rooting their own nation's history in the ancient ...
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- Zed Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78699-302-1
EAN 9781786993021
Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld.Since the Middle Ages, its shoreline has scuppered thousands of pirate ships. But the history of Cape Finisterre is no fiction ...
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Back to Black
Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
- Zed Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78699-278-9
EAN 9781786992789
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- Zed Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78699-020-4
EAN 9781786990204
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, ...
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- Zed Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78699-118-8
EAN 9781786991188
Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the ...
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- Zed Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-889-8
EAN 9781783608898
Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government - for which she lost her job as a journalist - Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression. The result is a beautifully rendered ...
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Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges
How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War
- Zed Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-122-6
EAN 9781783601226
The War on Terror has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate. From the battlefield in Afghanistan to the frontier refugee camps in Pakistan, the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the tense ...
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The Racket
A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe
- Zed Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-987-1
EAN 9781780329871
The story Americans are wont to tell themselves about their nation is a compelling one: the United States is a force for good in the world, a haven for prosperous upward mobility, and a stalwart defender of democracy and human rights abroad. With The Racket, veteran investigative journalist Matt Kennard pulls back the curtain and ...
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- Zed Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-482-1
EAN 9781783604821
How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation efforts, societies in the global south are increasingly seeking progressive ways of recreating the public sector. With contributors ranging from cutting-edge scholars to activists working in health, water, and energy provision, and with case ...
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- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-579-8
EAN 9781783605798
Featuring contributions from some of the leading lights of the women's rights and environmental movements, this work from Friends of the Earth serves as a rallying call for environmental movements, demonstrating that the fight for women's empowerment should be an integral part of the struggle for a sustainable society.
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Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment.So what if we rethought the whole system? That s the ambitious ...
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- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-573-6
EAN 9781783605736
North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in ...
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The Global Minotaur
America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-610-8
EAN 9781783606108
In this provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis'the fiery former finance minister in Greeks new Syriza-led government'explodes the myth that financialization, ineffective regulation of banks, and generalized greed and globalization were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, he shows, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise, one that can be traced all the ...
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- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-419-7
EAN 9781783604197
What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical 'pedigree'? In this powerfully honed polemic, Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and mis-represented. Challenging, pugnacious, but also stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective in postcolonial studies by looking at how intellectual debate continues to reinforce a colonial regime of knowledge, ...
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The Racket
A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe
- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-988-8
EAN 9781780329888
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the creme de la creme of the global elite left him ...
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Capitalism and Its Alternatives
A Critical Introduction
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-736-5
EAN 9781780327365
The Global Economic Crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organising production, distribution, and exchange. Capitalism, political elites have argued, is not a fundamentally pernicious or crisis prone system, and can be successfully reformed if the right set of policies are found. Conversely, groups such as Occupy have argued ...
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Killing Hope
US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-177-6
EAN 9781783601776
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Is the United States, as it ...
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Deglobalization
Ideas for a New World Economy
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78360-168-4
EAN 9781783601684
In 2002, years before the financial crash and the onslaught of austerity measures the world over, Walden Bello argued that we were entering a historical maelstrom marked by prolonged economic crisis, the re-emergence of imperialist contradictions and the spread of global resistance. In short, the neoliberal, globalist project was in crisis. A decade later, the ...
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America's Deadliest Export
Democracy - The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-167-7
EAN 9781783601677
For over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum, a leading dissident chronicler of US foreign policy and the author of controversial ...
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Europe on the Brink
Debt Crisis and Dissent in the European Periphery
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-213-1
EAN 9781783602131
Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder; one symptom of which is a sovereign debt crisis. The media have divided the continent into two groups of nations: center and periphery, not by geography but by credit ratings on national debt. Europe On the Brink is a critical investigation of the root causes of the ...
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