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Series: After Geoengineering Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Paperback Holly Jean Buck 9781788730372 $24.95 SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

What if the people seized the means of climate production?The window for action on climate change is closing rapidly. We are hurtling ever faster towards climate catastrophe—the destruction of a habitable world for many species, perhaps the near-extinction of our own. As anxieties about global temperatures soar, demands for urgent action grow louder. What can be done? Can this process be reversed? Once temperatures rise, is there any going back? Some are thinking about releasing aerosols into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back i... + Read More
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Series: Elegy for Mary Turner An Illustrated Account of a Lynching Paperback Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 9781788739047 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens bake... + Read More
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Series: The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems Paperback Nancy Folbre 9781786632951 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economistIn this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research, including neoclassical economics, sociology, psychology, and evolutionary biology, to answer the defining question of feminist political economy: why is gender inequality so pervasive? In part, because of the contradictory effects of capitalist development... + Read More
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Series: Capital Is Dead Is This Something Worse? Paperback McKenzie Wark 9781788735339 $25.95 PHILOSOPHY Feb 09, 2021

It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism - what if it’s something worse?In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. And it’s not just tech companies like Amazon and Google. Even Walmart and Nike can now dominate the entire production chain through the ownership of not much more than brands, patents, copyrights, and logistica... + Read More
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Series: The Force of Nonviolence An Ethico-Political Bind Paperback Judith Butler 9781788732772 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 09, 2021

“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” – J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But... + Read More
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Series: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Women and Desire in the Age of Consent Hardcover Katherine Angel 9781788739160 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeTooWomen are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women’s desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women—and their bodies—want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to? In this elegant, searching book—spanning science... + Read More
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Series: Bigger Than Bernie How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism Paperback Micah Uetricht 9781788738392 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 06, 2021

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next?The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active participation of millions of ordinary people in political life. That revolution is already underway, as evidenced by the massive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America... + Read More
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Series: Being Numerous Essays on Non-Fascist Life Paperback Natasha Lennard 9781788734608 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 27, 2021

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics todayBeing Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood, offering in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we should live in it. Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization of political dissent, the myths of radical sex, and the ghosts in our lives. At once politically committed and ph... + Read More
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Series: Snowden's Box Trust in the Age of Surveillance Paperback Jessica Bruder 9781788733441 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

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 to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was Edward Snowden’s box—materials proving that the U.S. government had built a massive surveillance apparatus and used it to spy on its own people—and the friend o... + Read More
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Series: Breaking Things at Work The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job Paperback Gavin Mueller 9781786636775 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 09, 2021

An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the futureIn the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years ’the Luddites’ roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history; for Gavin Mueller, the mov... + Read More
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Series: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances Hardcover Owen Hatherley 9781839762215 $39.95 ARCHITECTURE Jun 22, 2021

How to make a fairer, more just city.From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, history, portraits of particular places and things, Hatherley argues for those who have tried to create and imagine a better modernity, both in terms of architecture, such as Zaha Hadid or Ian Nairn, in terms of the ... + Read More
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Series: It's Stupid, the Economy! The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth Paperback Benjamin Kunkel 9781839762185 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

We have outgrown capitalism. What comes next?Capitalism’s reliance on constant growth has brought our world to the brink of collapse. From the breakdown in complex supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and ecological devastation to hollowed-out democracies and a truncated idea of human potential, we now find ourselves in a world based on overstretched resources, unsustainable economies, and increasing inequality. It is clear, in other words, that we’ve outgrown growth.What other future is there? To stop growing, of course. Weaving together... + Read More
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Series: Medium Design Knowing How to Work on the World Hardcover Keller Easterling 9781788739320 $25.95 ART Jan 19, 2021

How to Design the World: Working Without SolutionsIn Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on object over its settings to concentrate on the medium—the matrix space between objects, events, and ideological declarations. It disrupts habitual modern approaches to the world’s intractable dilemmas—from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power. In a series of case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric ... + Read More
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Series: Silicon Values The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism Hardcover Jillian C. York 9781788738804 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 23, 2021

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our DemocracyWhat is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian York charts the war over our digital rig... + Read More
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Series: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal A Theory of Political Organization Paperback Rodrigo Nunes 9781788733830 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 25, 2021

How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as “horizontal” and “leaderless” swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back to what was once called “the question of organisation”. For something so often described as essential, however, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field. In this book, Rodrigo Nunes proposes to remedy that lack by starting ... + Read More
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Series: On the Shores of Politics Paperback Jacques Ranciere 9781788739665 $25.95 PHILOSOPHY Mar 16, 2021

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. ‘We could’, he suggests, ‘merely smile at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a suppression/conclusion of philosophy.’This is precisely the tas... + Read More
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Series: Taking A Long Look Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time Hardcover Vivian Gornick 9781788739771 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 16, 2021

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s selfFor nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick’s work: that the painful process of understanding one’s self is what binds us to the larger world.In these essays, Gornick ex... + Read More
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Series: The Third Unconscious Paperback Franco Bifo Berardi 9781839762536 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 12, 2021

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the UnconciousThe Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the “psychosphere” of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a... + Read More
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Series: Liberalism at Large The World According to the Economist Paperback Alexander Zevin 9781788739627 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 23, 2021

The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supportersIn this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless—and internationally influential—champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has its message evolved? Liberalism at Large examines a political ideology on the move as it confronts the challenges that classi... + Read More
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Series: America's Jail How Law and Order Made Rikers Island Hell on Earth Hardcover Jarrod Shanahan 9781788739955 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 17, 2022

The first definitive history of America’s most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City’s law enforcementJust about everybody knows the name Rikers Island. A fixture of pop culture and underground prison lore alike, the sprawling East River jail complex has become synonymous with both the horrors of mass incarceration and the structurally-racist class domination at its core. But how did Rikers Island get to be this way? Captives of a New Alcatraz represents a scrupulously researched answer to this question, written for a lay audienc... + Read More
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Series: The Great Recoil Politics after Populism and Pandemic Hardcover Paolo Gerbaudo 9781788730501 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 27, 2021

Is populism the future for the Left?In this era of economic crisis, social distress, and ecological threats, the term “populism” has come to sum up anxiety about our political future. While it is mostly associated with rightwing demagogues such as Donald Trump, Matteo Salvini and Jair Bolsonaro, various figures of the “post-crash Left”, such as Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Pablo Iglesias have also been branded “populist”, for the way they express that distrust of the elites and belief in ordinary people that have become key motifs of our z... + Read More
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Series: Gunpower The Structure of American Violence Hardcover Patrick Blanchfield 9781788736671 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

How might we break a 500 year cycle of American violence?America as a nation was built upon, enshrines, and runs on gunpower. From the original founding of the US to its present economic life, from its interventions abroad to its struggles at home, guns are everywhere. Without guns, the original territorial seizures and ethnic cleansing of the North American continent would never have been possible, nor would the institution of chattel slavery. Without guns, the policing required for America’s capitalist industrialization would have been unthin... + Read More
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Series: Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties Paperback Mike Davis 9781839761225 $33.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

Los Angeles Times Bestseller“Authoritative and impressive.” –Los Angeles Times“Monumental.” –GuardianA magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the ... + Read More
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Series: We're Here Because You Were There Immigration and the End of Empire Hardcover Ian Patel 9781788737678 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain’s recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain’s colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa were renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what it saw as a vast immigration ‘cris... + Read More
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Series: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Paperback Friedrich Engels 9781839761515 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 17, 2021

The most influential theory of the origins of women’s oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new editionIn this provocative and now-classic work, Frederick Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical dev... + Read More
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Series: Terminal Boredom Stories Paperback Izumi Suzuki 9781788739887 $25.95 FICTION Apr 20, 2021

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural iconAt turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki’s singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettine... + Read More
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Series: Betraying Big Brother The Feminist Awakening in China Paperback Leta Hong Fincher 9781786633651 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 27, 2021

A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government. Featured in the Washington Post and the New York Times.On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance... + Read More
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Series: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy From 1917 to the Present Hardcover Robin Blackburn 9781788739719 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

Authoritative account of heterodox economic ideas by one of the leading lights of New Left ReviewThe tentative revival of socialist movements on either side of the Atlantic has posed anew the question of alternative economic regimes: Modern Monetary Theory, ’digital socialism’, public-utility banking and Universal Basic Services are just some of the ideas in play.Thinking Socialist Economic Policy provides the historical and theoretical scaffolding for these vital and ongoing debates. It surveys a century of radical-left theorisation and experi... + Read More
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Series: Culture Strike Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Hardcover Laura Raicovich 9781839760501 $35.95 ART Jun 15, 2021

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormAs director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York municipal institution into a center of activist art, organizing high-powered exhibitions that were also political protests. Then in January, 2018, she abruptly resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials became a public controversy—she had objected to the Israeli government using the museum for a political event featuring vice president Mike Pence.... + Read More
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Series: Disobey! A Philosophy of Resistance Paperback Frederic Gros 9781788736329 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

Exploring the philosophy of disobedienceThe world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric 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 and induce new forms of civic disobedience and lyrical protest. Nothing can be taken for granted: neither supposed certainties nor social conventions, economic inju... + Read More
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Series: Wars and Peace Hardcover Jeremy Corbyn 9781839761263 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

Former leader of the Labour Party on his life-long campaign against imperialismJeremy Corbyn has been at the front line of the international anti-war movement for his whole life. When he became leader of the Labour Party in 2015 this was at the heart of his political revolution, and the focus of much of the mainstream attacks on his policies. Yet he never wavered from his beliefs. In Wars and Peace, he brings a life time’s experience of protest to bear in a passionate denunciation of 21st century empire. The book focuses in particular on the w... + Read More
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Series: White Skin, Black Fuel On the Danger of Fossil Fascism Paperback Andreas Malm 9781839761744 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 18, 2021

Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.... + Read More
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Series: Capitalism and the Camera Essays on Photography and Extraction Paperback Kevin Coleman 9781839760808 $39.95 PHOTOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism’s viole... + Read More
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Series: China in One Village The Story of One Town and the Changing World Hardcover Liang Hong 9781839761775 $35.95 HISTORY Jun 22, 2021

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China told through the microcosm of one small town by a bestselling author in ChinaAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, l... + Read More
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Series: How to Abolish Prisons Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment Hardcover Rachel Herzing 9781786632777 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 07, 2022

What is prison abolition?In the 1960s and 1970s, groups like the U.S. Prison Research Education Action Project and the Norwegian Association for Penal Reform advocated for a world without prisons. Instead, incarceration boomed, growing in the United States from about 200,000 prisoners to unprecedented 2 million and more. Now, a movement to abolish prisons has returned, with grassroots movements and critical research converging on an uncompromising critique of the regime of mass incarceration.This book provides a trenchant guide to prison abolit... + Read More
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Series: Walter Benjamin's Politics Paperback Irving Wohlfarth 9781839761812 $45.95 PHILOSOPHY May 11, 2021

A probing and thorough analysis of the politics of Walter BenjaminWalter Benjamin is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his texts are notoriously dense, and spread across a wide range of subjects, often existing only in note form such as the great unfinished Arcades Project.Walter Benjamin’s Politics offers one of the most lucid and rigorous analyses of Walter Benjamin’s work to date. Irving Wohlfarth’s work, informed by philosophy, philology and Jewish studies, gives an original and penetrating account of the po... + Read More
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Series: We Fight Fascists The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain Paperback Daniel Sonabend 9781788733250 $25.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

The extraordinary story of the Jewish ex-servicemen fighting fascism in post-war BritainReturning to civilian life, at the close of the Second World War, a group of Jewish veterans discovered that, for all their effort and sacrifice, their fight was not yet done. Creeping back onto the streets were Britain’s homegrown fascists, directed from the shadows by Sir Oswald Mosley. Horrified that the authorities refused to act, forty-three Jewish exservicemen and women resolved to take matters into their own hands. In 1946, they founded the 43 Group a... + Read More
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Series: The Hard Road to Renewal Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left Paperback Stuart Hall 9781839761362 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 03, 2021

Stuart Hall’s writings on the political impact of Margaret Thatcher have established him as the most prescient and insightful analyst of contemporary ConservatismCollected here for the first time with a new introduction, these essays show how Thatcher has exploited discontent with Labour’s record in office and with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology. Hall’s critical approach is elaborated here in essays on the formation of the SDP, inner city riots, the Falklands War and the signficance of Antonio G... + Read More
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Series: How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century Paperback Erik Olin Wright 9781788739559 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 13, 2021

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society. Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic app... + Read More
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Series: Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Paperback Laleh Khalili 9781786634825 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 10, 2021

A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle EastOn the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities -iron ore, coal, oil- arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels China’s manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian Peninsula. Much of the material shipped from China are transported through the ports of Arabian Peninsula, Dubai’s Jabal Ali port foremost among them. China’s ’maritime silk roa... + Read More
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Series: Unholy Kingdom Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Hardcover Malise Ruthven 9781839760105 $33.95 HISTORY Jan 02, 2079

A short history of modern Saudi Arabia: Religion, Oil, and DynastyReveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation, and establishing itself as a beacon in the Middle East mired in violence. But the murder in October 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul embassy reveals a darker reality: the intensification of the repression of religious and political criticism and protest driven by the wa... + Read More
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Series: Work Without the Worker Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism Hardcover Phil Jones 9781839760433 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 05, 2021

An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalismAutomation and the decline in industrial employment have lead to rising fears of a workless future. But what happens when your work itself is the thing that will make your job obsolete?In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South. Here, small tasks are assigned to people o... + Read More
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Series: Alpha City How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich Paperback Rowland Atkinson 9781788737982 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 25, 2021

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential “World City” for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals. Compared to New York or Tokyo, the two cities that bear the closest comparison, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Taken as a whole, London is the epicentre of the world’s finance markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one’s ... + Read More
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Series: The Twittering Machine Paperback Richard Seymour 9781788739290 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 08, 2021

A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social mediaFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flouri... + Read More
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Series: What We Don't Talk About Sex and the Mess of Life Paperback Joann Wypijewski 9781788738507 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 11, 2021

An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisisWhat if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual preoccupations with monsters and victims, shame and virtue, JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that. From the HIV crisis to the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen to Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes the most famous sex pani... + Read More
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Series: Half-Earth Socialism A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics Hardcover Troy Vettesse 9781839760310 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 19, 2022

A bold and unique manifesto to save our future by re-wilding the earth!Our fossil fuel-driven society has run out of time. Only by rapidly giving up our reliance on carbon can we pay down the debt of fossil capital and buy a liveable future without a mass extinction or global warming.In this visionary and incisive manifesto, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass outline the structural, economic, and social changes de-carbonization will require. Drawing from detailed environmental modeling of our planet’s many possible futures... + Read More
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Series: The Shadow of the Mine Coal and the End of Industrial Britain Hardcover Ray Hudson 9781839761553 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 29, 2021

The rise and fall of Britain’s most important industryNo one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of thousands were cast onto the labour ma... + Read More
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Series: Sylvia Pankhurst Sexual Politics and Political Activism Paperback Barbara Winslow 9781839761621 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 27, 2021

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia PankhurstAlong with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women’s suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women’s Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women’s concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics.In this illumin... + Read More
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Series: Future Histories What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology Paperback Lizzie O'Shea 9781788734318 $25.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Aug 17, 2021

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Australia When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories o... + Read More
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Series: Culture and Politics Class, Writing, Socialism Paperback Raymond Williams 9781788738637 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 11, 2022

Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond WilliamsRaymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of materialist criticism, but also a thoroughly engaged political writer.Published to coincide with the centenary of his birth and showing the full range of... + Read More
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Series: Full Surrogacy Now Feminism Against Family Paperback Sophie Lewis 9781786637307 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 31, 2021

In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition. But we need more surrogacy, not less!The surrogacy industry is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you? Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radicall... + Read More
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Series: Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us A Novel Paperback Joseph Andras 9781788738712 $24.95 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in FranceWinner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in FranceA young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day, condemned to death, and thrown into a cell to await the guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a ... + Read More
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Series: The Politics of Care Paperback Boston Review 9781839763090 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2020

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review.From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their core is a politics of death: a brutal neoliberal ideology that combines deep structural racism with a relentless assault on social welfare. Its results are the failing economic and public health systems we confront toda... + Read More
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Series: Contraventions The Politics of New Left Review Paperback New Left Review 9781839761423 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

An anthology of 20 years of New Left Review editorialsA good journal is marked out by the heterodoxy of its opinions. Since its relaunch at the turn of the century, New Left Review has published some three dozen editorials on contemporary world politics, economics and culture, each departing from conventional positions - from Clinton’s sanctions stranglehold on pre-2003 Iraq to the pieties of the Middle East peace process and nuclear non-proliferation regime; from New Labour’s bien pensant Third Way to the meaning of Donald Trump - as well a... + Read More
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Series: Thinking in a Pandemic The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of COVID-19 Paperback Boston Review 9781839763120 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 25, 2020

Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility.We are living in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our time. Confronting the many challenges of this moment—from the medical to the economic, the social to the political—demands all the moral and deliberative clarity we can muster. Bringing together coverage of the unfolding pandemic from the critically acclaimed Boston Review, this collection explores t... + Read More
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Series: Salvage #9 Paperback Salvage 9781839764721 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 13, 2021

Winter 2020 issue of Salvage, featuring Andreas Malm, Helen Charman, James Meadway, Tessa McWatt, and many others.That Hideous Strength includes a major essay from James Meadway on the late David Graeber’s political economy and the lessons in it for today’s left, Tessa McWatt on the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020, Benjamin Kunkel on the 2020 US Presidential election, Judy Thorne on femme excess and its necessity for planetary liberation, Ben Davis on the politics of online, James Foley on Scotland’s Covid-19 response, and Alex Billet on c... + Read More