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by Oli Mould
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.
From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated...
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat
A Novel of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest...
The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award
Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in...
The Social Origins of Private Life
A History of American Families, 1600-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit
Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This acclaimed study surveys the dominant popular and scholarly images of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Finkelstein opens with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating it as a romantic form of nationalism that assumed the bankruptcy of liberal democracy. He goes on to look at the demographic...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist
Perry Anderson’s essay “The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has...
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country'
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments...
Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction
Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Racial Oppression and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes...
The Man Who Closed the Asylums
Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry
In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime...
Lacan
In Spite Of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity....
Humankind
Solidarity with Non-Human People
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans
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...
Freud
The Theory of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A clearly written and highly organized introduction of the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An...