From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland (Kowalik Tadeusz)(Paperback)

From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland (Kowalik Tadeusz)(Paperback)

In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to really-existing socialism that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, really-existing

Foundations of Restoration Ecology (Palmer Margaret A.)(Paperback)

The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organizations, and landowners a means to halt degradation and restore function and resilience to ecosystems stressed by climate change and other pressures on the natural world

Slumberland - From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout (Beatty Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Restoration of the Self (Kohut Heinz)(Paperback)

In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called 'the limits of classical analytic theory' and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a 'psychology of the self' as a theory in its own right-one that can stand beside the

The Sellout (Beatty Paul)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the

The Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Poland (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Following the 1940 invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in cities and towns across the country with the initial aim of segregating and isolating the Jewish community. These closed sectors were referred to as Judischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden (Jewish Quarters).Using

Blitzkrieg Poland: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Sutherland Jon)(Paperback)

These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft.There

A Square of Sky: A Wartime Childhood: From Ghetto to Convent (David Janina)(Paperback)

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival. Made into a

Tuff (Beatty Paul)(Paperback)

From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of

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

Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 (Forczyk Robert)(Paperback)

Now available in paperback, this fascinating title from renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of Case White, the German invasion of Poland in 1939.The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the

False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism (Lubonja Fatos)(Paperback)

This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania. After the world's most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism, many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in so-called

A Concise History of Poland (Lukowski Jerzy)(Paperback)

Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in 1980s, albeit a much

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,

Death of the Fronsac: A Novel (Ascherson Neal)(Paperback / softback)

An unforgettable recreation of life in wartime, and of the tragic fate of Poland in the 20th century. A novel about sabotage, betrayal and the terrible sadness of

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

Restoration (Tremain Rose)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming Robert Merivel...When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II,

Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (McNally David)(Paperback)

Everywhere the Market goes it spawns monsters in its wake. From Frankenstein, to Zombies, McNally analyzes these creatures of

Life Lessons from Ezra and Nehemiah: Lessons in Leadership (Lucado Max)(Paperback)

Two leaders, one burning mission: restoration.When the people of Israel returned to Jerusalem after their exile in Babylon, they found the city laid waste, the temple destroyed, and their way of life obliterated. Out of the ashes of this devastation, two leaders emerged to restore the foundations

The Meiji Restoration (Beasley W. G.)(Paperback)

For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a comprehensive account of the origins, development,

Freedom in Solidarity: My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising (Nami Kadour)(Paperback)

Kadour Na mi came from Algeria to study in France in 1966, four years after his country's liberation from colonial rule and two years before a different liberation movement exploded in France. Capturing the youthful enthusiasm and revolutionary earnestness of the young rebels he joined, Na mi's

Post Growth: Life After Capitalism (Jackson Tim)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability - and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson's passionate and provocative book

Satan in Goray (Singer Isaac Bashevis)(Paperback / softback)

The pogrom that swept through Poland was interpreted as a sign of the Coming of the Lord. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief becomes joy as good news arrives of the second coming of the Messiah. But such perilously high hopes pave the way to hysteria, and a panic

Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa (Bhre Erik)(Paperback)

Ironies of Solidarity makes an important and empirically rich contribution to our understanding of what finance does to society. Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study examines how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African