A riveting inquiry into black history and American racism published here for the first time, Race and Revolution is a work of radiant insight and bold logic. Astonishingly advanced for its time, the d
Drawing on an impressive wealth of evidence, Science, Seeds and Cyborgs challenges the legitimacy of genetic engineering. This prescient book highlights countless scientific flaws in many of the recen
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationshipSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise
In this book the distinguished historian Victor Kiernan makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals through which he lived. Shakesp
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth centuryIn a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives we
The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendi
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive development
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economistIn this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and
Founder of the influential heterodox regulation school offers a new theory of money, tracing it's history back 1,000 yearsThis book's goal is to understand money in all its complexity. As a link betwe
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, ?i?ek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayLenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the s
A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect o
A new vision of politics “below the radar”Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlightin
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are policedForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths alon
Despite the recent surge of interest in the notion of a "post-racial America," the pursuit of racial equality and social justice for African-Americans seems more elusive than ever. In this new paperb
Over the last two decades, pornography has become not only one of the most spectacularly profitable industries in the West but also, in its own way, the most innovative, with the development of more a
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar W
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century laterReflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historia
The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics“Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United St
Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric Jameson’s path-breaking essay An American Utopia radically questions standard leftist notions of an emancipated
These provocative essays explore the links between literature, history and politics, through an examination of the work of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Roth, Platonov, Soltzhenitsyn, Grossman,
