Capitalism and the Death Drive (Steuer Daniel)(Paperback)

Capitalism and the Death Drive (Steuer Daniel)(Paperback)

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but rather destructive. Capitalism

Saving Beauty (Steuer Daniel)(Paperback)

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change (Cohen Sir Ronald)(Paperback)

Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but it cannot be changed by throwing money at old ideas that no longer work. There needs to be a new path to a new world where inequality is shrinking, where natural resources are

The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book for Cs6 and CC (Steuer Sharon)(Paperback)

For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW team have been showcasing the world's best artists and designers working in Adobe Illustrator. In this edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW Book, you'll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual

Death in Vienna (Silva Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which

Foucault and Neoliberalism (Zamora Daniel)(Paperback)

Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct

Psychology and Capitalism: The Manipulation of Mind (Roberts Ron)(Paperback)

Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber Max)(Paperback)

Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the

Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction (Coleman Kevin)(Paperback)

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

Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx (Harman Chris)(Paperback)

An incisive and devastating critique of capitalism, sounding the alarm that the system poses a threat to human

The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Beer David)(Paperback)

A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering. It is centrally concerned

Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter Joseph A.)(Paperback)

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated

The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct (Hageback Niklas)(Pevná vazba)

Sigmund Freud's death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have actualized the interest in the death drive as political upheavals and

A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism (Holt-Gimnez Eric)(Paperback)

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Gimenez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode

Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (Bhattacharyya Gargi)(Paperback)

A reappraisal of the history of capitalism that places techniques of racial division and expropriation at the centre of our

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Explains the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and

Sherlock Holmes and The Pandemic of Death (Victor Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Quarantines, masks, death-terms familiar to anyone who faced the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918. World-wide, it is estimated that the horrifying influenza killed more than 50 million people, significantly more than did the guns of the Great War, which was just then coming to a close. And yet no one

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Edelman Lee)(Paperback)

In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of 'reproductive futurism.' Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence

City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism (Krane Jim)(Paperback)

Archaeology of Death and Burial (Parker Pearson Mike)(Paperback / softback)

The archaeology of death and

Between Capitalism and Community (Lebowitz Michael A.)(Paperback)

Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of community In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital.Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endlessaccumulation of capital,

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Fulcher James)(Paperback)

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as, 'what is capital?' before