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From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture

Ending the fossil fuel industry is our only hope of a liveable climate.

The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global poverty, media politics and radical theory to parse the various implications of a world where man is born free but everywhere is in debt. Written with humor and verve, Bonds of Debt ranges across subjectssuch as Obama's national security strategy, the architecture of Prada stores, press photos of Bono, and a fairy tale told by Karl Marxto capture a modern condition founded on fiscal imprudence. Moving beyond the dominant pieties and widespread anxieties surrounding the topic, Dienst re-conceives the world's massive financial obligations as a social, economic, and political bond, where the crushing weight of objectified wealth comes face to face with new demands for equality and solidarity. For this inspired analysis, we are indebted to him.

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

From here to utopia. New directions in political theory

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle

A journalistic account of Trump''s wars in the Middle East from a highly acclaimed journalist who has been reporting on the area for decadesIn this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey''s attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region, leading to the assassination of Iranian General Sulemani.Cockburn offers panoramic on-the-ground analysis as well as a lifetime''s study of the region. As author of The Rise of Islamic State, and the Age of Jihad, he has proved to be leading, critical commentator of US intervention and the chaos it has wrecked/ And here he shows how, since Trump entered the White House promising an end to the Forever War, peace appears a distant possibility with the continuation of conflict in Syria, Saudi Arabia''s violent intervention in the Yemen, the fall of the Kurds, riots in Baghdad, and the continued aggression towards Iran. While ISIS has been defeated, it is not clear whether it has disappeared from the region. Trump''s policies has appeared to pour petrol on the flames, emboldening the other superpowers involved in the proxy wars. Following the collapse of the deal with Iran, and the threat of war crimes, is a new balance of power possible?

How Amazon has changed literature

Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property

Shortlisted for the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story

Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics

Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility.

The Fall of the Tory Party

How to theorise the European Union

A major new contribution to the study of China's revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century.

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition.

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory

When Crisis Becomes the Norm: What Can We Do to Demand Change?

A classic work of Western Marxism, now back in print.

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But does the ';idea of India' correspond to the realities of the Union? The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the republic's current ills go very deep, historically. They lie, it argues, in the way the struggle for independence culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a divided subcontinent, not least in the roles played by Gandhi, as the great architect of the movement, and Nehru, as his appointed successor, in the catastrophe of partition. Only an honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what was has gone wrong since independence. Revisiting a century's history, and sifting the uncomfortable realities from the ideology, Anderson offers an alternative way to look at the story of the nation, and the nature of a state that is less in conflict with caste than built upon it.

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it

Classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essay, including some of his most celebrated essays

How to make a fairer, more just city.

The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry

Terrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork.