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16 produkter
Planet of Slums
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2017
125 kr
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According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage …
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2018
166 kr
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is …
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of its own real history, Mike Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing …
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2017
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212 kr
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in …
Monster Enters
COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2022
122 kr
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In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes. Now in this expanded edition of that 2005 book, Davis explains how the problems he warned of remain, and he sets the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of previous …
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2002
131 kr
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Examining a series of El Ni�o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in …
Planet of Slums
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2007
128 kr
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According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage …
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2006
128 kr
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is …
Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2017
373 kr
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On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a generic weapon of mass …
Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2017
134 kr
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On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York''s Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda''s prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man''s air force," a generic weapon of mass …
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2018
302 kr
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Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the …
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2018
130 kr
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Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis''s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world''s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the …
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2022
133 kr
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Counterpointing Los Angeles''s central role in America''s fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of its own real history, Mike Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. …
Magical Urbanism
Latinos Reinvent the US City
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2024
180 kr
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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. Mike Davis chronicles the Dickensian underworld of day labor in New York, tracks the development of …
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Av Mike Davis
Häftad, 2025
161 kr
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Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working blue collar jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an eighteen wheeler before his profile as one of the world's leading urbanists emerged with the …
Monster Enters
COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
Av Mike Davis
E-bok, 2022
130 kr
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In his book, The Monster at Our Door , the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes. Now in this expanded edition of that 2005 book, Davis explains how the problems he warned of remain, and he sets the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of …
