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Everything to Nothing
The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernism
The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world.
This tumult, sometimes referred to as ‘the literary war’, saw an extraordinary...
by Sylvie-Catherine De Vailly
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Un homme souffrant d'obésité morbide succombe à une crise cardiaque devant un repas gargantuesque. Une jeune femme plonge dans le coma après un accident de la route. Un bébé meurt de façon soudaine. Une prostituée est retrouvée sans vie dans une ruelle. Quatre décès isolés que rien ne...
by Dominique de Loppinot
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Mes parents sont fous! Qu'ils partent en vacances dans un «tout-compris-sauf-le-plaisir», ça passe. Mais qu'ils veuillent m'amener avec eux, ça ne va pas du tout! Est-ce que j'ai l'air d'une fille qui aime se vautrer sous le soleil en maillot de bain? Ou qui a envie de passer une semaine complète...
Sept - Tome 6
La clé du diable
Language: French
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Victime de sévices corporels et psychologiques, Webb fuit la maison familiale pour vivre dans les rues de Toronto. Il assure sa subsistance en jouant de la guitare et en travaillant comme plongeur dans un restaurant. Après avoir pris connaissance du testament de son grand-père, il s'envole vers...
Dead Children Playing
A Picture Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead’s artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in the last decade, this book alsocontains a cornucopia of never-before-seen artwork. Featuring the apocalyptic scenes of the OK Computer album, the startling,...
Opening the Gates
The Lip Affair, 1968-1981
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968
In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied their factory to demand that no one lose their job. They seized watches and watch parts,...
by Andrea Long Chu
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”
So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and...
Germany's Hidden Crisis
Social Decline in the Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany
Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university....
Victors' Justice
From Nuremberg to Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism
Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key...
Outcast London
A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and...
The View From The Train
Cities And Other Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future.”
In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...
The Conservation Revolution
Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
An anti-capitalist manifesto for conservation
Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the...
Black Radical Tradition
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2020
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 classic writing and primary documents restores the...