Samhälle & politik

'A beacon of hope in a dark world' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Pool One night in November 2015, when Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his baby son, his wife Hlne was killed, along with 88 other people, at the Bataclan Theatre in Pari...

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An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papill...

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'Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle' Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University As early as the end of the 19th century, anarchists such ...

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Claude Addas' "Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi" is the first work of its kind: a comprehensive overview of the life and works of Ibn Arabi, known to some as "Shaykh al-Akbar", the `Greatest of Sufi Masters'. Un...

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Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne surveyed women's status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but about life and death-for humans and the pla...

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Le Petit Livre rouge est le livre le plus vendu au monde après la Bible, avec des ventes estimées à plus de 5 milliards selon l'agence de presse officielle. Pendant la Révolution culturelle dont il devient l'un des symboles, l'étude du livre est o...

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Le slogan de l'Agenda 21 des Nations Unies, qui vise protger les droits des gnrations futures et de toutes les espces contre les crimes potentiels du prsent, est la fois un cran de fume et une dclaration de droits. En s'appuyant sur ce principe no...

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In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies ...

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Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. ...

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'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. The...

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A huge photograph collection concentrating on Panzer troops in World War ll. Most of the photographs are previously unpublished and are accompanied by detailed captions and an authoratative narrative.

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'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman' First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqu book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned i...

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Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate."

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A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issue...

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'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling...

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Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides us with an elegant, sophisticated ...

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Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production. Exuberant, provocative, and as contr...

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One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece ...

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One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern Am...

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Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work &apo...

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The Ancien Rgime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (180559) is an objective observer of both periods providing a merciless critique of the ancien rgime, with its vena...

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'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel A Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018 "There was a question that had...

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The seventy-two entries in this volume explore, among other topics, the history, geography, and religion of Greece, Plato's mythology and philosophy, the powers of marriage in Greece, heroes and gods of war in the Greek epic, and origins of m...

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La démocratie représentative canadienne se heurte ÿ de grandes difficultés. Au sommet de leur liste figure l''incapacité croissante du gouvernement national ÿ remplir ses rÿles les plus essentiels, soit planifier des actions collectives qui...

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La démocratie représentative canadienne se heurte ÿ de grandes difficultés. Au sommet de leur liste figure l''incapacité croissante du gouvernement national ÿ remplir ses rÿles les plus essentiels, soit planifier des actions collectives qui...

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Si la devise du Québec sombre parfois dans l?oubli, ce livre s?impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois : « Je me souviens » de ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra ...

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La structure politique du Canada va ÿ l?encontre de la géographie économique de l?Amérique du Nord et de l?attraction économique entre le nord et le sud. Le Canada a importé des institutions politico-administratives conçues pour un ÿtat un...

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La structure politique du Canada va ÿ l?encontre de la géographie économique de l?Amérique du Nord et de l?attraction économique entre le nord et le sud. Le Canada a importé des institutions politico-administratives conçues pour un ÿtat un...

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A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In The W...

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