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What if the people seized the means of climate production? Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering...

How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating...

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che’s right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cuba, Bustos was determined to bring revolution to the home country he shared with his hero. After a failed attempt to liberate Argentina, it was not until...

A historical look at the emergence of fascism in Europe Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and development a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain and Romania 1870-1945 challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism...

The major French economist offers a new theory of money As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, with little to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke...

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Why did the rise of human rights in the 1970s coincide with the institutionalisation of neoliberalism? And why has the neoliberal age also been the age of human rights? Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights...

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many. Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better...

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained...

Vanille Painchaud a toute une surprise lorsqu'elle arrive à l'école secondaire. Dans sa classe se trouve son ennemi juré: Zacharie-Alexandre Quintal, Zaq pour les intimes! Lorsque le père de Zaq se met à fréquenter la mère de Vanille, les deux adolescents n'ont d'autre choix que de se voir en...

En este libro polifónico el oficio de poeta se comparte con otras almas dedicadas a otros oficios. Las distintas voces participan de la naturalidad contemporánea en la experimentación con el lenguaje hasta lograr un ritmo particular. Placer y dolor de vivir y amar unidos en una propuesta lúcida...

"De sacrées bonnes femmes? – Le Point En l663, Thérèse débarque en Nouvelle-France et gagne Ville-Marie, qui deviendra Montréal. Elle y perd son mari et son fils, massacrés par les Iroquois. Devant élever seule l'enfant qui lui reste, une fille, elle affronte un quotidien rude et exigeant...

"Bernadette n’a que 12 ans lorsqu’elle se lie d’amitié avec Augustine, qu’on surnomme affectueusement dans le village «la vieille demoiselle». Celle-ci visite régulièrement la gamine en convalescence. Une passion commune les unit, les livres. Un beau jour, Bernadette attend Augustine...

DJ se perçoit comme un chef : premier de classe, il est responsable et n'a peur de rien. Quand il entreprend l'ascension du Kilimandjaro afin d'aller y répandre les cendres de son grand-père, il est convaincu que l'expédition sera un jeu d'enfant. Or, DJ réalise rapidement que la montagne est...