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Algiers, Third World Capital
Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
by Elaine Mokhtefi
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics
Following the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Elaine Mokhtefi, a young American woman immersed in the struggle and working with leaders of the Algerian...
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Algiers, Third World Capital
Elaine Mokhtefi
Algiers, Third World Capital
Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
by Elaine Mokhtefi
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics
Following the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Elaine Mokhtefi, a young American woman immersed in the struggle and working with leaders of the Algerian...
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Pub Date 17 Oct 2017
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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States
Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing...
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Alt-America
David Neiwert
Pub Date 17 Oct 2017
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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States
Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing...
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Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
by Sheila Rowbotham
Pub Date 25 Oct 2016
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The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam...
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam...
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Rebel Crossings
Sheila Rowbotham
Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
by Sheila Rowbotham
Pub Date 25 Oct 2016
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The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam...
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam...
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Pub Date 08 Nov 2016
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A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
Today 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 from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In ...
Today 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 from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In ...
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Vertical
Stephen Graham
Pub Date 08 Nov 2016
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A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
Today 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 from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In ...
Today 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 from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In ...
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Verso Catalogue Autumn 2016
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Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
by Mike Davis
Pub Date 17 Jan 2017
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Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial...
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial...
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Late Victorian Holocausts
Mike Davis
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
by Mike Davis
Pub Date 17 Jan 2017
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Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial...
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial...
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The Hidden God
A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine
by Lucien Goldmann
Pub Date 12 Jul 2016
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A new edition of a major philosophical work
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées...
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées...
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The Hidden God
Lucien Goldmann
The Hidden God
A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine
by Lucien Goldmann
Pub Date 12 Jul 2016
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
A new edition of a major philosophical work
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées...
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées...
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Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek
We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first time in this ebook collection, and available for FREE download!
“When you put on a mask, you leave your own time,” writes Nadya Tolokonnikova from...
We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first time in this ebook collection, and available for FREE download!
“When you put on a mask, you leave your own time,” writes Nadya Tolokonnikova from...
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Verso 2014
Verso Books
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Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek
We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first time in this ebook collection, and available for FREE download!
“When you put on a mask, you leave your own time,” writes Nadya Tolokonnikova from...
We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first time in this ebook collection, and available for FREE download!
“When you put on a mask, you leave your own time,” writes Nadya Tolokonnikova from...
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The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As Tom Mills demonstrates, we are only getting the news that the...
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As Tom Mills demonstrates, we are only getting the news that the...
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The BBC
Tom Mills
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The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As Tom Mills demonstrates, we are only getting the news that the...
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As Tom Mills demonstrates, we are only getting the news that the...
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A major new work from the world’s leading writer on art
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger...
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger...
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Landscapes
John Berger
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A major new work from the world’s leading writer on art
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger...
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger...
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Revolutionary Yiddishland
A History of Jewish Radicalism
by Alain Brossat; Sylvie Klingberg
Pub Date 08 Nov 2016
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Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the...
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the...
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Revolutionary Yiddishland
Alain Brossat; Sylvie Klingberg
Revolutionary Yiddishland
A History of Jewish Radicalism
by Alain Brossat; Sylvie Klingberg
Pub Date 08 Nov 2016
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the...
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the...
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Capitalism is going to end
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and...
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and...
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Four Futures
Peter Frase
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Capitalism is going to end
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and...
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and...
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Pub Date 20 Sep 2016
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This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers...
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers...
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Grand Hotel Abyss
Stuart Jeffries
Pub Date 20 Sep 2016
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This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers...
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers...
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Pub Date 23 Aug 2016
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The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation...
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation...
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Raymond Chandler
Fredric Jameson
Pub Date 23 Aug 2016
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The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation...
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation...
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Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A...
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A...
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The Exform
Nicolas Bourriaud
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Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A...
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A...
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Verso Books (US)
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing eighty books a year.
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