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"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."–Adam Shatz, The New York TimesPoetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated b...

In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in...

Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of establish...

Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial PrizeA new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalismDespite insoluble contr...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succ...

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words Hugo Chávez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Lati...

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only dec...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain...

The radical politics of storytellingPointing beyond common worries about misinformation and fake news, Mythocracy focuses on the attention economy....

In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s...

A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of SpainIn this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14)...

This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on dr...

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV...

Did NATO cause the crisis in Ukraine?Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO—pronounced “braindead” only a few years prior—...

In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of “human rights...

How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "horizontal" and "...

Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist itHow do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic cr...

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind ...

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettlin...

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettlin...

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies in...

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book Empire has been hailed as a latter day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a theoretical framework r...

When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 ho...