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Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of...

Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of...

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...

The battle for online rights and for the future of democracy Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? ...

The battle for online rights and for the future of democracy Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? ...

Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and the politician who likened a German MEP...

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: An...

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: An...

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freigh...

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freigh...

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance   One day in t...

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance   One day in t...

The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaignerIn this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and polit...

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout EuropeOver the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums ...

In this path-breaking work, Alan Carling develops a general theory of social division centring on the three core areas of social class, gender and ...

Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger’s ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and e...

This outstanding and original volume offers a critical examination of a number of developments which in recent years have undermined the idea of so...