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Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai JinhuaDai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Cinema and Desire presents Dai Jinhau's best...
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Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After CommunismIsaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility for the fate of its country and a belief in the transformative power...
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Politics: The Central TextsThis selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volume Politics presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative to Marxism and social democracy. The explanatory part of the work rejects the search for a lawlike...
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Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the BodySkateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of...
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Methods for Community Participation: A Complete Guide for Practitioners'Somesh Kumar has compiled this useful collection with the intention of promoting creativity, experimentation and growth. This is, then, a source of ideas and advice, not a set of marching orders.' - Robert Chambers. This book combines the concept, practice and application of participatory...
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No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and TravellersThe shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a home They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish...
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Bioterror and Biowarfare: A Beginner's GuideIn an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made...
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Magna Carta: Origins and LegacyMagna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring its contents. Annulled by the pope within weeks of being issued, it...
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An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?"With a brilliant display of forensic advocacy, one of the greatest legal minds on the international stage forces a shameful but inconvenient truth upon the world.--Helena Kennedy, QCWinner Polemic of the Year, The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015On April 24th, 2015 people around...
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Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War IIJuan Pujol Garcia, better known as Garbo, was perhaps the most influential spy of World War II. By feeding false information to the Germans on the eve of the D-Day landings he ensured their absence in great numbers from Normandy's beaches. This allowed the...
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Prisoner 155: Simón RadowitzkyA beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Sim n Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world. The author/illustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016. Radowitzky appears in a few...
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Now Is the Time of MonstersFacing the Predator, the latest volume from World War 3 illustrated, explores and exposes the predatory logic that underpins our economy, politics, justice system, and human relations. As agents of Capitalism seek to extract and exploit at every opportunity, artists and allies come together...
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The Big Heat: Earth on the BrinkThe world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers,...
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The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885-1911"The most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced...a forceful personality, a brilliant mind, a fervent idealist, an unflinching fighter, a devoted and loyal comrade." --Emma Goldman "What can you say about a forgotten genius, a feminist foremother, Yiddish-speaking French immigrant's child, Free...
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Rebellion in PatagoniaAt the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: "Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever." He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led...
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American SouthIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property...
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Drug War CapitalismThough pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's Drug Wars--despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. They...
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Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a RebelNunzio Pernicone's biography uses Carlo Tresca's (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of...
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The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian JihadSo-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan...
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The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in SpainEvery year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were...
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