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This illustrated guide to the changing architecture of London argues that new developments are a deliberate distraction from the city's economic and political problems.

Leading commentators examine the Afghan debacle and its parallels with previous British and Soviet occupations

Claims that the election of Nicholas Sarkozy as President is not an event, nor is it the cause for wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth.

An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.

Examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century onwards. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, this title shows how its texts can be placed within a discourse of western colonization.

In this study of De Gaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West. He suggests that De Gaulle's disdain for electioneering reaffirms the vocation of political leadership as something other than adapting to popular preferences.

Confronts the great machinery of deception in which we live, and which threatens to destroy our civilization. In particular, the author takes to task a group of prominent intellectuals who have exaggerated the threat posed by the so-called forces of unreason - religion, postmodernism and other "mumbo-jumbo".

Presents an argument as to how the changes of the late twentieth century have altered Enlightenment notions of "emancipation."

This study serves as a survey of analytical Marxists' contributions to the understanding of historical materialism, exploitation, class structure, method, politics and ethics - which Marcus Roberts brings right up to date with some considerations on John Roemer's recent work on models of socialism.

A new, expanded edition which includes an additional five interviews in which Habermas discusses such themes as the history and significance of the Frankfurt School, the social and political development of post-war Germany and the moral status of civil disobedience.

This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. It is designed to underlabour both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform.Elaborating his own highly original critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself. Roy Bhaskar shows how this new perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the right and, at the same time. to clear the ground for a reinvigorated left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of our time — from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas. It advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.Providing a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in the philosophy of science and of social theory, for the interested lay reader and student alike. this book will be of particular value for all those concerned with the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.

Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history

Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt

What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?

Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences

Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.

Beginning with a guide to the institutions and "products" of modern finance, from old-fashioned stocks and bonds to new exotica such as "swaptions", this text reviews the 1980s' fetishing of the deregulated market as the ultimate decision-making process for productive investment.

In this era of 'globalization', we hear a great deal about a 'new imperialism', the hegemony of global capital and its chief enforcer, the US. Today, with the US promising an endless 'war against terrorism' and a policy of 'pre-emptive defence', this notion seems more plausible than ever.

How should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis?

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What just happened and how did we get into this mess?

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politicsAs refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a ';hostile environment' for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that immigration is not damaging the economy or putting a strain on public services, migrants continue to be blamed for all the UK's ills. How did we get here? Maya Goodfellow offers a compelling answer and illuminates the dark underbelly of contemporary immigration policies. Talking to politicians, immigration lawyers, and immigrants themselves, Goodfellow examines how the media and successive governments have created and fuelled anti-immigration politics over the last fifty years. Ultimately, Hostile Environment reveals the distinct forms of racism and dehumanisation that result from these policies. Goodfellow's book is a crucial reminder of the human cost to treating immigration as a problem.

The austerity crisis and threat to Disability rights

Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom