In America, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways toproduce a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras ofNew Mexico to t
Ronald Fraser is an internationally renowned chronicler of other people's experience. In Search of a Past is his remarkable account of his own origins. Born in Hamburg in 1930, he settled in the Home
Recounts the journey of a U.S. tank battalion's prisoner detention duties, showing how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill-trained for their new responsibilities, descended into the degradations of abus
The Reformation was originally an attack on a corrupt church, sparked by Martin Luther, but for some it did not go far enough. Thomas MuI^ntzer, originally Luther's proteI?geI?, became increasingly c
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium.
Neither the recent global food shortages nor the impending world energy crisis will be unfamiliar to readers, yet the link between the two has only recently been discussed. In Against the Grain, Wald
The glittering spectacle of Times Square has been the object of the world's fascination since the turn of the century. Now available in a handsome new paperback edition, noted critic Marshall Berman'
A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski's coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, an
In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revo
In A Time to Speak Out, a collection ofstrong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspor
The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo ChA-vez to worldattention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus andAmerican foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience o
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shattal-Arab waterway in southern Iraq.Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through
Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twent
Psychoanalysisis less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives ourignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not asufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks
In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labortheory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art andthe expansion of artistic authority in the twentie
In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalitiongovernments have advanced across South America, sparking hope forradical change in a period otherwise characterized by r
Spontaneous,abrupt and wickedly humorous, Dan Perjovschi is fast becoming one ofthe world's most influential cartoonists. He presents here a skepticalcommentary on contemporary global conflicts and d
Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano studentmovement who also played a key role in the creation of
David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In a lengthy new introduction, Roediger surveys recent schol
In this new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he i
Mao's early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutionsand their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the moststirring of all time. Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek's firecrac
