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Hardback. Condition: Good. What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together.

Paperback. Condition: Good. What is the true meaning of happiness? The radical potential of being together.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This is the story of Viramma, an agricultural worker and mid-wife in Karani, a village in South-East India. She tells of her sense of profound change, a constant dialogue between the old certainties of the caste system and institutional and political initiatives to improve the lives of her people.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An exploration of a writer's search for her voice.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fascinating story of the remarkable resurgence of extremists in the United States by acclaimed investigative reporter.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. What Cablegate tells us about the scope of US foreign policy around the world.

Paperback. Condition: Good. These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of "heretical" knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Fascinating story of the remarkable resurgence of extremists in the United States by acclaimed investigative reporter.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. How a Mexican American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America's corrupt asylum process.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world', Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. This title presents the history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle. It takes us on a illustrated tour of Times Square.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed 'rise of the robots' really explain the jobs crisis that awaits us on the other side of the coronavirus? In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can't deliver it? In response to calls for a universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a counter-proposal.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Faced with a renascent Right and an enormous racist legacy, this book argues that the Black struggle has to move beyond existing strategies. What is required is a transformatist approach that retains distinctive Black cultural identity whilst uprooting the language and logic of inferiority.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Using the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation.

Hardback. Condition: Good. How a Mexican American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America's corrupt asylum process.

Paperback. Condition: Good. An exploration of a writer's search for her voice.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Asserts that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.

Hardback. Condition: Good. American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack Obama's practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump-the demagogue of a culture of corruption from which all traces of political interest and candour have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Published on the 20th anniversary of his death, and containing substantial new material never before seen in print, "Lennon Remembers" presents a portrait of a complex musician at the height of his career.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration.

Hardback. Condition: Good. From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. what a Green New Deal could look like.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A survey of Noam Chomsky's political writing. This book is an introduction to the basic ideas underlying this intellectual's critiques of the mass media and the new world order. It includes a summary of his visions of the future and his own brand of libertarian socialism.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Combining social history and reportage, this book explores the place of football in the life of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. It examines the historical and political role of football on an international level, from colonial times to the present, up to and including the World Cup Final of 1990.…