Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Seymour Richard)(Paperback)

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Seymour Richard)(Paperback)

How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice--and won bigIn the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream media

One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA (Finn Daniel)(Paperback)

A history of 'the Troubles' the radical politics of Republicanism The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique

Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine (Horsley Richard A.)(Pevná vazba)

In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth�s mission and how he became a significant historical figure. In his study Horsley brings a fuller historical knowledge of the context and implications of

American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (Huntington Samuel P.)(Paperback)

This stunningly persuasive book examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. Samuel P. Huntington shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Thaler Richard H.)(Paperback)

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to

Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Feynman Richard P.)(Paperback)

Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum

Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (Seymour Richard)(Paperback)

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative 'Marxist,' an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his

Left Out - The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn (Pogrund Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Bottici Chiara)(Paperback)

Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal

Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction (Newman Richard S.)(Paperback)

From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and

Broken Angels (Morgan Richard K.)(Paperback)

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another

Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (Hage Ghassan)(Paperback)

This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms

Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis (Blanqui Louis-Auguste)(Paperback)

In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the

The Radical Orthodoxy Reader (Milbank John)(Paperback)

The Radical Orthodoxy Reader presents a selection of key readings in the field of Radical Orthodoxy, the most influential theological movement in contemporary academic theology. Radical Orthodoxy draws on pre-Enlightenment theology and philosophy to engage critically with the assumption and

Rethinking the Spectacle: Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age (Penner Devin)(Paperback)

Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to influence viewers by shocking, distracting, emotionally overwhelming, or even deceiving them. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed

The Contradictions (Yanow Sophie)(Paperback)

The Eisner Award-winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy worldSophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place, she's desperate for

Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England's Greatest County (Morris Richard)(Paperback)

'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country Life Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and

The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America (Davis William C.)(Paperback)

The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Kraus Richard Curt)(Paperback)

China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Thaler Richard H.)(Pevná vazba)

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the

Rat Run (Seymour Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

A breathtaking thriller from one of the modern masters of the

Postanarchism (Newman Saul)(Paperback)

What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism - forms our contemporary

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Laclau Ernesto)(Paperback)

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,