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50% off ALL Student Reading!

Rethink your reading for the academic year ahead.

Verso Books27 August 2019

50% off ALL Student Reading!

Feeling underwhelmed by your assigned reading? Expand your knowledge of left theory, give your political arguments some bite, and spark a love for revolutionary writers with our essential Verso student reading. All 50% off until September 30, 23:59 EST (see terms and conditions below). All the books included are featured on the reading lists below.

See all our new and bestsellers (in this sale!) here.

For inspiration see our Top 10 Books Every Student Should Read, as well as all our subject-specific reading lists below. Decolonize your reading with our books that challenge imperial narratives; seek out utopian radical thinking for the year ahead; and challenge the politics of hate with our anti-fascism reading.

Bored of your reading lists? Not every book on your shelf should be one from a reading list. Inspire your radical politics on campus with these unmissable books (includes the Verso Book of Dissent, The Xenofeminist Manifesto, and our 2020 Radical Diary).

Throughout the month of September we will be doing flash ebook giveaways of core books from our Student reading: see here for more info, follow us on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) or sign up to our mailing list so you don't miss out! (link at the bottom of this page, right-hand corner).

Discover all the books in our sale with these key reading lists:

Philosophy, Political Theory, Critical Theory, Art and Aesthetics, Race and Ethnicity, Economics, Environment and Ecology, Feminism and Gender, History , Architecture and Cities, Film and Media, Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, Cultural and Literary Theory, Sociology

Alternative reading guides: 10 Books Every Student Should Read, Anti-Fascism on Campus, Decolonize your Bookshelf!, Alternative Student Reading, Emerging Futures: Utopian Thinking, Jacobin Series: Radical Political Interventions, Key Marxist Thought.

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Terms and conditions:

50% off applies only to books included on the reading lists featured above, and does not apply to all the books on our site.

50% off applies where stock is still available (this may differ from region to region). Books may go out of stock during the sale.

50% off will end at 23.59 on September 30 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 2019.

Not all books are for sale in every region.

Purchase of a print copy includes free bundled ebook (where available). There is further ebook information here.

Read more about our purchasing, shipping, delivery, and returns processes here.

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  • Imagined Communities
    What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and tran...
    Paperback
  • Workers and Capital
    Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-...
    Paperback
  • Minima Moralia

    Minima Moralia

    Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
  • If They Come in the Morning
    The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Ange...
    Paperback
  • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
    In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new soci...
    Paperback
  • The Authoritarian Personality
    What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked t...
    Paperback
  • Fully Automated Luxury Communism
    Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism ...
    Hardback
  • Allegory and Ideology
    Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contra...
    Paperback