
A History Of The World In Seven Cheap Things
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...
View full detailsNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...
View full detailsIn this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of struggling peoples throughou...
View full detailsJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...
View full detailsThis is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...
View full detailsIn Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the coun...
View full detailsChina's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi ...
View full detailsClimate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a reno...
View full detailsA manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking The Uses of Disorder, that the...
View full detailsIn this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from h...
View full detailsFrom the skyline of Dubai to the idea of 'quality', the impact of broadband cabling in West Africa to the street plan beneath your feet Extrastatec...
View full detailsBritish politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment. In Futures of Sociali...
View full detailsEveryone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acut...
View full detailsMuch has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom ...
View full detailsIn this brilliant collection of diverse works essays, short stories, poems, translations which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger ...
View full detailsA wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margi...
View full detailsIn February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had be...
View full detailsA toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Onl...
View full detailsThe Chinese Revolution was a complex and protracted event staged by competing groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations. Its vet...
View full detailsJohn Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination...
View full detailsIn an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find ...
View full detailsIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag,' dressing identically and even marching in an identica...
View full detailsPowerfully evocative, Coates recalls life of struggle on the edge of chaos, and what is was like to be a young black man in desperate times. Ta-Neh...
View full detailsIn 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in ...
View full detailsThis is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is ...
View full detailsJudith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argue...
View full detailsPhilology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every ac...
View full detailsIn the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: 'the Happiness index', 'Gros...
View full detailsThe analysis of May ’68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images...
View full detailsThroughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others aro...
View full detailsThroughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women’s bodies and w...
View full detailsToday we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach ...
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