Knihy 2017
- Killing of Osama Bin Laden Hersh Seymour M.
Killing of Osama Bin Laden Hersh Seymour M.
- Seymour M. Hersh
- anglické
- 136
- 2017
Publikace: Killing of Osama Bin Laden. In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the...
- Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
- Slavoj Žižek
- anglické
- 272
- 2017
The renowned and controversial Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek makes his own statement on the continued relevance of the Russian Revolution, a hundred years on. Shows why...
- On Practice and Contradiction Tse-Tung MaoPaperback
On Practice and Contradiction Tse-Tung MaoPaperback
- Mao Zedong, Mao
- anglické
- 208
- 2017
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Zizek These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao's clarion call...
- Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change Dawson AshleyPevná vazba
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change Dawson AshleyPevná vazba
- Dawson, Ashley
- anglické
- 384
- 2017
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its...
- Futures of Black Radicalism Johnson Gaye TheresaPaperback
Futures of Black Radicalism Johnson Gaye TheresaPaperback
- anglické
- 272
- 2017
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up...
- The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Jurez Nieto SandraPaperback
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Jurez Nieto SandraPaperback
- Nieto, Sara Rodriguez
- anglické
- 208
- 2017
The intimate story of a teenager's murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his...
- Weimar in Exile
Weimar in Exile
- Palmier, Jean-Michel
- anglické
- 864
- 2017
A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other...
- Bonds of Debt
Bonds of Debt
- Dienst, Richard
- anglické
- 200
- 2017
Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On...
- Lost World of British Communism
Lost World of British Communism
- Raphael Samuel
- anglické
- 244
- 2017
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on...
- Storytelling
Storytelling
- Salmon, Christian
- anglické
- 192
- 2017
The narrative spell cast over politics and society Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to...
- Redemption Song
Redemption Song
- Marqusee, Mike
- anglické
- 352
- 2017
A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali's political development in the sixties When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen....
- Late Victorian Holocausts
Late Victorian Holocausts
- Davis, Mike
- anglické
- 480
- 2017
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El...
- Hegel Variations
Hegel Variations
- Fredric Jameson
- anglické
- 144
- 2017
In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought:...
- Dirty Secrets
Dirty Secrets
- Murphy, Richard
- anglické
- 224
- 2017
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it The Panama Papers were a reminder of how the superrich are allowed to...
- Judaism and Modernity
Judaism and Modernity
- Rose, Gillian
- anglické
- 304
- 2017
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of...
- History of Violence
History of Violence
- Martinez, Oscar
- anglické
- 288
- 2017
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with...
- Amateur
Amateur
- Merrifield, Andy
- anglické
- 240
- 2017
A passionate call for independent thinking We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love. In The Amateur,...
- October
October
- China Miéville
- anglické
- 378
- 2017
Award-winning writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive...
- Threads
Threads
- Evans, Kate
- anglické
- 176
- 2017
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee drama In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new...
- Mural
Mural
- Darwish, Mahmoud
- anglické
- 80
- 2017
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of...
- Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty First Century
Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty First Century
- Kauffmann, Stephan a Stutzle, Ingo
- anglické
- 96
- 2017
An introduction to Thomas Piketty's monumental work US Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as "perhaps the most...
- Weight of Things
Weight of Things
- Fritz, Marianne
- anglické
- 144
- 2017
A slow-burning domestic nightmare, tinged with the traumas of war
- Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
- Žižek Slavoj
- anglické
- naučné
- 186
- 2017
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of...
- Collected Works
Collected Works
- Lenin, V I
- anglické
- 544
- 2017
Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed...