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by Suzanne De Brunhoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism...
The Age of Violence
The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't...
The Shock of the Anthropocene
The Earth, History and Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions...
Carbon Democracy
Political Power in the Age of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.”—Mary Wollstonecraft
Composed...
Eugene V. Debs
A Graphic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2020
A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs
Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs...
Tear Gas
From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets
More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas grenades at the German enemy. Designed to force people out from cover, tear gas causes tearing and gagging, burning the eyes and skin. Its use has...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized...
In the Name of Social Democracy
The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic “modernisation”...
Resources of Hope
Culture, Democracy, Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of...
Stone Men
The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel
“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.”
This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some...
by Daniel Barenboim
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing independently of each other, Barenboim shows how...
Fear of Mirrors
A Fall-of-Communism Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union
With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses his university job now that the times have turned against...
by Edward Said, Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work to examine Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits...