Editorial Verso Books
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-661-9
EAN 9781788736619
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-733-3
EAN 9781788737333
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-074-7
EAN 9781788730747
Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal upturning of a peasant society but also by the modernization and industrialization of the largest country ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-544-0
EAN 9781786635440
With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens by which many of us apprehend and communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-601-5
EAN 9781788736015
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample ...
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Banerjee, Tarun; Schwartz, Michael; Young, Kevin A
Levers of Power : How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do about It
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-096-9
EAN 9781788730969
Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them It's no secret that "the 1%" - the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions- exercise enormous control over U.S. government. While this control is usually attributed to campaign donations and ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-263-0
EAN 9781786632630
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness--for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-631-2
EAN 9781788736312
Exploring the philosophy of disobedience The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent ...
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Mondon, Aurelien; Winter, Aaron
Reactionary Democracy : How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-423-3
EAN 9781788734233
Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary. Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for reactionary ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-472-1
EAN 9781788734721
Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's ...
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Levine, Judith; Meiners, Erica R.
The Feminist and the Sex Offender : Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-340-3
EAN 9781788733403
A powerful case for freedom and transformation, for accountability and repair - the next course for feminism in the era of MeToo With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that, despite their inextricable linkages, are typically siloed in the era of MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1080 páginas
PVP: 40,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-022-7
EAN 9781784780227
A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-550-6
EAN 9781788735506
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life "Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-780-7
EAN 9781788737807
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking The Uses of Disorder, that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and alongside campaigner and architect, ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-639-8
EAN 9781788736398
What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know? According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. He is depicted there in a surprising way: with and against God; with and against his people; bringer of the Tablets of the Law, which he breaks; a stuttering prophet, ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-343-4
EAN 9781788733434
Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden's revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-538-4
EAN 9781788735384
The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today In this landmark collection of spanning four generations of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down is a history lesson in feminist thought, and a testament to what is possible when we're driven to the edge. Organized ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-857-6
EAN 9781788738576
During the ferment of the New Left, "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-853-8
EAN 9781788738538
Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. From the books of Marcel Proust to interior design, sexuality to childhood, hotels to the rise of fascism, cinema to astrology, Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-321-2
EAN 9781788733212
A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize ...
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