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  Happy Apocalypse

  by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

  Translated by David Broder

  Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact h...
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  The Last Sane Woman

  by Hannah Regel

  Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women’s art. Ther...
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  Faraway the Southern Sky

  by Joseph Andras

  Translated by Simon Leser

  Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, t...
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  Lifehouse

  by Adam Greenfield

  A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Te...
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  Burnout

  by Hannah Proctor

  In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that que...
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  Black Meme

  by Legacy Russell

  **Shortlisted for the NBCC Award for Criticism**Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning auth...
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  Inventions of a Present

  by Fredric Jameson

  A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best...
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  Learning from the Enemy

  by Marco Bresciani

  When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libertà, founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929, is one int...
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  Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?

  by Leah Cowan

  Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced w...
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  The Zone

  by Justinien Tribillon

  In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh’s paintings to the cinematic violence of La Haine,...
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  Against Landlords

  by Nick Bano

  Against Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which...
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  On Extinction

  by Ben Ware

  On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching...
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  How We Walk

  by Matthew Beaumont

  You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait r...
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  The Price is Wrong

  by Brett Christophers

  RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too s...
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  New Radical Enlightenment

  by Marina Garcés

  Translated by Julie Wark

  Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Ma...
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  A Short History of Trans Misogyny

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell ...
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  Engaging Erik Olin Wright

  Contributions by Rina Agarwala, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ruy Braga, Harry Brighouse, Michael Burawoy, H. Jacob Carlson, Rodolfo Elbert, Greta R. Krippner, Stephanie Luce, João Alexandre Peschanski, Peter Ramand, Gay Seidman, Kwang-Yeong Shin and Marta Soler-Gallart

  Edited by Michael Burawoy and Gay Seidman

  When the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished project intended to forge a connection between class a...
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  Disordered Attention

  by Claire Bishop

  The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated percept...
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  Balzac's Paris

  by Eric Hazan

  In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a lovin...
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  Magical Urbanism

  by Mike Davis

  Foreword by Román de la Campa

  Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardA CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC, Magical Urbanism focuses on how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. ...
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  Nuclear is Not the Solution

  by M.V. Ramana

  The climate crisis has inspired new hope in nuclear energy. Its advocates claim we already have the technology of the future, ready to be perfected and deployed. But as M. V. Ramana argues in this ...
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  Paul Foot

  by Margaret Renn

  Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of the under...