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This philosophical ode to finding joy in simple things explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and...

A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the w...

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century—and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and...

A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natur...

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humi...

Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ...

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by ...

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by ...

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. I...

An exploration of how a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forcesAnalytic philosophy is the...

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thoughtIn this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of pol...

The fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s ‘Islam Quintet’ charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close f...

The fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s ‘Islam Quintet’ charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close f...

Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil...

Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to...

In A Time to Speak Out, a collection of strong Jewish voices come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews. Wit...

Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress...

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970sWhen a group of North Wales building ...

"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that th...

A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes th...

A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes th...

Based on extensive historical research and fieldwork in Labrador over many years, A Way of Life that Does not Exist brings to light the scale of th...

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. He is d...

This essential Karl Marx biography expertly weaves the complex personality of the legendary thinker through the turbulent passage of global history...