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A spirited critique of the cultural politics of sightseeing. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists

A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.

How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?

A health check on our corrupt and broken political system by one of our finest historians

Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want

A new perspective on the neoliberal world through the prism of rents and rentiers

An eminent historian's critical history of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

What does care mean? who exactly is paying for the Global Financial Crisis in term of care?

What keeps capitalism afloat

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition.

Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancire from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the ';discovery' of totalitarianism by the ';new philosophers,' the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancire challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist.

Why centrist politics in France is bound to fail

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.

A handbook for how to organize to meet immediate needs in your community and work toward lasting change.

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek

A striking account of the European Left in the twentieth century by one of its main protagonists

Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida

A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter

Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian society. The work of 21 of Brazilian photographers is shown, and the text describes the new uses of photography within the contemporary arts.

Politics in Britain is an original and powerful work of synthesis that is essential reading for students of the political scene in the UK today. Controversial when it was first published, the book's analysis of the changing face of British politics has been confirmed by events of the 1980s. This new edition, revised throughout, is brought up to date with substantial new material on the Thatcherite era.Leys provides a solid body of information on the central topics of British politics - not only on the nature of political parties and the evolution of the state, but also on the organisation of capital and labour, the role of social class in British politics, the transformation of local democracy, law and order, and other areas seldom discussed in more orthodox texts. The book also includes new accounts of Thatcher's programme of de-nationalisation, and of the changes to the Welfare State. Now more relevant than ever. Politics in Britain has yet to be surpassed as an introduction to its subject.

Stunned by the news of Sputnik in 1957, the American public were to be treated over the next dozen years to the spectacle of an all-out national crusade: the race to beat the Russians to the moon. What few understood at the time - and what has largely been obscured in popular representations of this episode in movies and bestsellers - was the key economic and technical role played by manned space exploration in post-war US capitalist expansion. From Potsdam to Cape Canaveral, the yellow brick road twisted and turned, but its ultimate goal remained clear: the Oz of global American economic and political domination.Taking off from that masterpiece of American fiction, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Dale Carter tells the lurid tale of the postwar boom, through the history of the manned space program. Salvaged from the ashes of Nazi Germany (Pynchon's 'Oven State'), as US officials rounded up the Third Reich's leading V-2 scientists, the American Rocket State embarked on an upward path that would culminate in the epochal voyage of Apollo XI in 1969. Following this path, Carter gives an innovative, brilliant account of American culture and society during the Cold War. He charts the ideological and political significance of a range of phenomena, from films like High Society, Destination Moon and When Worlds Collide to John F. Kennedy's rise to power, from the emergence of a new high-tech economy fueled by the NASA-led transformation of the aerospace industry to the last flight of the space shuttle Challenger. His highly original account of the star-spangled space age sets a new standard for the study of American culture.