The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project (Cavalieri Chiara)(Paperback)

The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project (Cavalieri Chiara)(Paperback)

We usually think of cities as dense and vertical--but in reality most cities extend vast distances in a more horizontal fashion, with less density and lower-rising buildings. This book invites us to rethink the relationship between that center and its periphery, revealing that dispersed condition

What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination (Khasnabish Alex)(Paperback)

Emerging from the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, Canada, What Moves Us? brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement- based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radical imagination and

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Moses Robert)(Paperback)

The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools--as told by the program's founder At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside--national standards,

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

More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Caputo John D.)(Paperback)

In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together. Caputo claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine or other

Cavalier Capital: Oxford in the English Civil War 1642-1646 (Barratt John)(Paperback)

Cavalier Capital, the first detailed account of Oxford's role as 'Royalist capital' to appear for almost three-quarters of a century, examines all aspects of Oxford's experience in the English Civil War. As well as the effects on the town and university, special emphasis is placed on the various

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

Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe (Becker Elisabeth)(Paperback)

Mosques in the Metropolis offers a unique look into two of Europe's largest mosques and the communities they support. Elisabeth Becker provides a complex picture of Islam in Europe at a particularly fraught time, shedding light on both experiences of deep and enduring marginalization and the agency

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader (Crow Barbara A.)(Paperback)

A selection of essential writings to understand the radical feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s The second wave of feminism was one of the most significant political and cultural developments of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the role radical feminism played within the women's movement remains hotly

Chiara Luce - A Life Lived to the Full (Michelle Zanzucchi)(Paperback / softback)

Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Neyrat Frdric)(Paperback)

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside 'atopia' not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that is

Cavalier - The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy (Worsley Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to

Radical Sabbatical - The Millennial Handbook to the Quarter Life Crisis (Rosen Emma)(Paperback / softback)

Interweaving New You and self-help, THE RADICAL SABBATICAL blends the extraordinary perspective gained from experiencing twenty-five different careers in a year, with practical advice for those who want to make a career change and for those who don't even know where to

Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis (Bowie Duncan)(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

The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (Kaufman Moises)(Paperback)

The Laramie Project, one of the most-performed theater pieces in America, has become a modern classic. In this expanded edition, it is joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play. On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming,

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Hgglund Martin)(Paperback)

Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious 'turn' in Derrida's thinking, H gglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding

The Radical King (King Martin Luther)(Paperback)

A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X 'The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic moment

Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition (Myers Joshua)(Paperback)

Cedric Robinson - political theorist, historian and activist - was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work resonates deeply with contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell the story of Cedric

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos (Natarajan Priyamvada)(Paperback)

For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe This book provides a tour of the 'greatest hits' of cosmological discoveries--the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood

Superman Adventures: Lex Luthor, Man of Metropolis (Various)(Paperback)

Ever since Superman's arrival in Metropolis, Lex Luthor has been living in the Man of Steel's shadow No matter what brilliant scientific discovery or phenomenal business deal he produces, Superman's unflinching morals and feats of superhuman strength always win over Lex's beloved city. But no more

A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies (Kothari Uma)(Paperback)

A Radical History of Development Studies traces the history of the subject from the late colonial period all the way through to contemporary focus on poverty reduction. In this now classic genealogy of development, the authors look at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions

Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Minden Michael)(Paperback)

Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises are the relation between ideology and art, the status and authorship of the film text in the entertainment market, the city, the

International Populism - The Radical Right in the European Parliament (McDonnell Duncan)(Paperback / softback)