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This travel book explores the forgotten countries on the edge of the new Europe—Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Mixing anecdote and repor...

Ending the fossil fuel industry is the only credible path for climate policyAround the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon e...

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully ...

A collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin WrightErik Olin Wright was o...

A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published i...

In this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one of Italy’s most influential philosophers and critics, argues that our society is living t...

Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled ...

Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled ...

How the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarityThe widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of ...

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of ac...

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his ...

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the t...

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day ...

A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Droug...

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19In his book, The Monster at Our Door,  the ...

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the se...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a p...

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the...

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and politica...

The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Ar...

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. DebsDynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs le...

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after ...