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Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
$32.95 Add to cartA sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power–and contributed to the worsening climate crisis
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of cl- Author: Malm, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1784781290
- Language: English
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How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
$24.95 Read more“In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity. With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumont locates freedom at the level of the body; free from… [more below]
- Author: Beaumont, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290076
- Language: English
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The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
$19.95 Add to cart“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).
” . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive a- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1788732774
- Language: English
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On Practice and Contradiction
$24.95 Add to cartThese early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references … [more below]
- Series: Revolutions
- Author: Mao Tse-Tung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675874
- Language: English
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The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters
$19.95 Add to cartThe feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they ta… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675815
- Language: English
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In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
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Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
$29.95 Add to cartIn July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the West… [more below]
- Author: Nasrallah, Sayyed Hassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844671534
- Language: English
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
$26.95 Read moreThe definitive history of drug cartels, this “investigative magnum opus” takes readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times)
The product of five years’ investig- Author: Hernández, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1781682968
- Language: English
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A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 2
$44.95 Add to cartThe biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close and Marx’s work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David
- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 178168121X
- Language: English
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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
$24.95 Add to cartReportage from the frontline of the crisis in the Middle East from a leading Israeli journalist
Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel’s apartheid policies against the Palestinian- Author: Levy, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 180429750X
- Language: English
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Ten Myths about Israel
$19.95 Add to cartThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict–from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Statesman)
The outspoken and radical Israeli historia- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297046
- Language: English
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization
$34.95 Add to cartThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often,- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292400
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
$24.95 Add to cartThe emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and t… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Febvre, Lucien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1844676331
- Language: English
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition
$26.95 Add to cartThe first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis
Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality present- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1784783587
- Language: English
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Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics
$34.95 Add to cartThe collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do justice to legitimate claims for multicult… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1859842232
- Language: English
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My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartGrowing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye etin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.
Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmoth- Author: Cetin, Fethiye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1844678679
- Language: English
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the … [more below]
- Author: Buhle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1844675254
- Language: English
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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty Three Students
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students
On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest when interc
- Author: Hernández, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1788731492
- Language: English
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Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘on the Concept of History’
$19.95 Add to cartThis illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the futur- Author: Lowy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1784786411
- Language: English
