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POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE

A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space

In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs?

This isn't a book for people who want to fix Big Tech. It's a detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle it.

Did NATO cause the crisis in Ukraine?

All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world

An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm's best-selling book by an experienced educator.

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo

Twenty-four economists discuss how they promote their commitments to egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity through their research, activism and policy engagement

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in AmericaThe Invention of the White Race is a comprehensive, tour de force analysis of the cruel ingenuity that gave birth to racism and made our modern world. Long heralded as a classic study of the origin of white privilege from the activist who first coined the term, Theodore W. Allen’s work remains an indispensable resource for making sense of our conflicted present, a reference point for everyone from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nell Irvin Painter to Reni-Eddo Lodge and Aníbal Quijano. When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal work, available for the first time here in a single volume, Allen tells how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, a fact central to maintaining rulingclass domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout the history of the Atlantic world. Spanning centuries and nations, Allen’s analysis takes us from the plantations of Northern Ireland and the mines of Peru to the sugar fields of Brazil and colonies of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. His account records lives of hardscrabble immigrant survival, Faustian bargains with white supremacy, the tragedy of human bondage, and the stubborn, unbreakable resistance to the global color line. Available for the first time in one volume.

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious.

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions

Plan your year alongside dates of revolutionary and radical events

What comes after neoliberalism?

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town

A searing indictment of modern sexual politics.

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy

Verso's classic Mapping series, published in association with New Left Review, collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world and delineates the controversies among the most important scholars in each field.

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on todays politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.

A tartly hilarious and deeply affecting new novel from the bestselling author of Will and Testament