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A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopherIs violent self-defense ethical? In the his...

Americans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver.It’s not simply that big business has cynically co-opted an authentic gr...

Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering medi...

Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropoceneAs we face...

What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enligh...

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measuresFeminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelle...

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measuresFeminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelle...

A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asi...

A fiery feminist manifesto from the Chilean performance collective who led the rallying cry for today's mass feminist movement across South America...

Los Angeles Times BestsellerThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “gr...

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “g...

Seven Minutes is a social and aesthetic history of the “controlled anarchy” of the cartoon, from the first talking Mickeys to the demise of Warners...

This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most mi...

A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly ori...

For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywoo...

In this book the distinguished historian Victor Kiernan makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social an...

A new perspective on the neoliberal world through the prism of rents and rentiersHow can we reduce inequalities? How can we make work get better re...

President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to t...

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In A Shattered Nati...

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In A Shattered Nati...

A TRAGIC SHIPPING ACCIDENT OPENS A WINDOW ON RACIALIZED LABOUR MANAGEMENT IN AN AGE OF IMPERIALISMWhen eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the...

In the late 1990s the television landscape underwent a seismic change as the reality game shows Big Brother and Survivor won unprecedented audience...

Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, w...