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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.…

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.…

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.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. How climate change will affect our political theory - for better and worse.

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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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. Focusing on a period between the early 20th century and the literary boom of the 1960s, this study examines the role of intellectuals in Latin American politics. It looks at the way modernization had an impact on intellectual life.

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.…

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: 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From here to utopia. New directions in political theory.

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.

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

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent.Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America's cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty.In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.…

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