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There Is No Outside
Covid-19 Dispatches
by Verso Books
160 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-230-7, ISBN: 1-83976-230-6

"An urgent collection of essays on the global pandemic, from n+1 and Verso Books A collaboration between the renowned magazine of literature and politics, n+1, and Verso Books, this collection tracks the course of Covid-19 across the ..."






Black Radical Tradition
A Reader
by Asad Haider, Erin Grey, Ben Mabie, Verso Books
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-618-2, ISBN: 1-78478-618-7

"An exhaustive collection of black revolutionary theory from slavery and reconstruction to Black Power to Black FeminismWith activists taking to the streets with renewed vigor to fight racism, inequality, and capitalism, this collection of classic writing and primary documents restores the historical grounding and revolutionary genealogy of today's protest movements. Including key writings of thinkers and figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, Hub ..."






The Revolutions Set
(Paperback)
by Verso Books
Paperback, 2,912 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso Books, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-447-3, ISBN: 1-84467-447-9

"Revolutions: classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers.This essential series features classic texts by key figures who tookcenter stage during a period of insurrection."






After the Fall
The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism
by Robin Blackburn, Verso Books
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1992 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-320-7, ISBN: 0-86091-320-1






The Verso Book of Dissent
Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance (Paperback)
by Andrew Hsiao, Audrea Lim, Verso Books
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-911-5, ISBN: 1-78873-911-6

"Quoted in Nina Baym et al., eds, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1, 5th edin, W. W. Norton, 1998. Three Marias. ... Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate,” Guardian, January 25, 2019, theguardian. com ( accessed March 3, 2020). Tijoux, Ana. “Shock,” 1977 ... Quoted in Nick Nesbitt, ed., Jean-Bertrand Aristide Presents Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Haitian Revolution, Verso, 2008. Tristan, Flora. ... John ..."






2018 Verso Radical Diary
by Verso Books
Diary, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso
Engagement Calendar
ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-394-1, ISBN: 1-78663-394-9

"The best-selling radical diary is back!The 2018 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully designed week-to-view diary and planner where you can keep track of your coming year. Alongside illustrations, it features significant dates in radical history, drawn from events such as the English Civil War and Castro’s victory march in Havana, and touches on the lives of characters such as Rosa Luxemburg and Gil Scott Heron, and in ..."






The Verso Book of Dissent(1st Edition)
From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad
by Ali Tariq Verso, Andrew Hsiao, Tariq Ali, Audrea Lim, Verso Books, Agent Tariq Ali
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-448-0, ISBN: 1-84467-448-7

"Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped durin ..."






Verso Tote Bag
by Verso Books
Acc, Published 2020 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-154-6, ISBN: 1-83976-154-7






Black Radical Tradition
A Reader
by Erin Grey, Asad Haider, Ben Mabie, Verso Books
352 Pages, Published 2022 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-620-5, ISBN: 1-78478-620-9

"An exhaustive collection of black revolutionary theory from slavery and reconstruction to Black Power to Black Feminism With activists taking to the streets with renewed vigor to fight racism, inequality, and capitalism, this collection of ..."






Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto (Paperback)
by Aaron Bastani, Verso Books
Paperback, Published 2019 by Verso Books, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-246-8, ISBN: 1-78873-246-4






Out of the Wreckage
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
by George Monbiot, Verso Books
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-745-1, ISBN: 1-78663-745-6

"A toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and coo ..."






The Weight of Things
by Marianne Fritz, Verso Books, Adrian Nathan West
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-296-8, ISBN: 1-78663-296-9

"Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams ..."






Radical Thinkers
(Paperback)
by Jacqueline Rose, Michael Löwy, Isaac Deutscher, Gillian Rose, Verso Books
Paperback, 1,000 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso
Box Set
ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-351-4, ISBN: 1-78663-351-5

"Classics of radical Jewish thought- Deutscher, Isaac, The Non-Jewish Jew- And Other Essays Rose, Jacqueline, The Last Resistance Lowy, Michael, Redemption and Utopia- Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe Rose, Gillian, Judaism and ..."






The Age of Jihad(1st Edition)
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
by Patrick Cockburn, Verso Books
Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-449-2, ISBN: 1-78478-449-4

"Award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our times This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In "The Age of Jihad" Patrick Cockburn, the author of the best-selling "The Rise of Islamic State," exposes the dominant conflict of our time the Sunni Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows ..."






The Reproach of Hunger
Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century (Hardback)
by David Rieff, Verso Books
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-338-9, ISBN: 1-78478-338-2

"In 2000 the world's leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of widening poverty gap and political unrest from the Arab Spring to Latin America. This food crisis has condemned the bottom billion of the world's population who live on less than $1 a day to a state of constant hun ..."






Palestine Speaks
Narratives of Life Under Occupation (Voice of Witness)
by Cate Malek, Mateo Hoke, Verso Books, Eds. Cate Malek
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-050-0, ISBN: 1-78478-050-2

"For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In Palestine Speaks men and women from the West Bank and Gaza describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the conflict. This includes eyewitness accounts of the most recent attacks on Gaza in 2014. The collection includes Ebtihaj, whose son, born during the first in ..."






Radical Thinkers Set 5
by Jeremy Bentham, Jean Baudrillard, Professor Louis Althusser, Judith Butler, Professor Fredric Jameson, Étienne Balibar, Guy Debord, Sebastiano Timpanaro, Verso Books, Immanuel Wallerstein, Etienne Balibar, Ernesto Laclau, Hal Foster, André Gorz, Peter Osborne, Edward W. Soja, Slavoj Iek
Paperback, 2,686 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-678-1, ISBN: 1-84467-678-1

"“Verso’s beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought.”—Ziauddin Sardar, New StatesmanThis shrinkwrapped set contains twelve Verso Radical Thinkers volumes at a discounted price: Machiavelli and Us by Louis Althusser Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerste ..."






Waiting for the Barbarians
A Tribute to Edward W. Said
by Basak Ertur, Contributor-Timothy Brennan, Contributor-Harry Harootunian, Contributor-Rashid Khalidi, Contributor-Elias Khoury, Contributor-Saree Makdisi, Contributor-Tuncay Birkan, Contributor-Meltem Ahiska, Contributor-Mahmood Mamdani, Contributor-Joseph Massad, Preface-Mariam Said, Muge Gursoy Sokmen, Contributor-Karma Nabulsi, Contributor-Jacqueline Rose, Contributor-Raja Shehadeh, Contributor-Fawwaz Traboulsi, Contributor-Gauri Viswanathan, Contributor-Ilan Pappé, Akeel Bilgrami, Contributor-Ilan Pappã, Verso Books
Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2008 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-245-5, ISBN: 1-84467-245-X

"Waiting for the Barbarians Intends to recover the notion of culture as a collective, hybrid and plural experience, in light of the political imperative that rules us. In bringing together some of the figures closely associated with Said and his scholarship, this volume looks at Said, the literary critic and public intellectual, Palestine, and Said's intellectual legacy. Full description"






Waiting for the Barbarians
A Tribute to Edward W. Said
by Timothy Brennan, Basak Ertur, Muge Gursoy Sokmen, Akeel Bilgrami, Meltem Ahiska, Tuncay Birkan, Contributor-Harry Harootunian, Contributor-Rashid Khalidi, Contributor-Elias Khoury, Contributor-Saree Makdisi, Contributor-Joseph Massad, Contributor-Mahmood Mamdani, Mariam Said, Contributor-Karma Nabulsi, Contributor-Jacqueline Rose, Contributor-Raja Shehadeh, Contributor-Fawwaz Traboulsi, Contributor-Gauri Viswanathan, Contributor-Ilan Pappé, Verso Books, Contributor-Ilan Pappã
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2008 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-246-2, ISBN: 1-84467-246-8

"6 From Auerbach to Said in Istanbul: Saidian Publishing in Turkey Tuncay Birkan In this chapter, my point of departure will be the intricate connection between Edward Said and Erich Auerbach. But before going into the details of this complicated relationship, I must issue a warning from the outset and try to clarify my own uneasy position. My text contains nothing by way of a rigorous analysis of Said's outstanding contributions to ..."






One Way Street And Other Writings(Updated)
by Walter Benjamin, K. Shorter, E. Jephcott, Susan Sontag, Verso Books
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1992 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-836-3, ISBN: 0-86091-836-X

"Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art i ..."



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