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• Author(s): Ben Watson • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: MusicThis brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the av...

• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Kathi Weeks • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalA groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subjectOne of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subj...

• Author(s): Simon Critchley • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionIn Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethi...

• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellec...

• Author(s): Ewa Majewska • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFeminism as the bulwark against fascism In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska proposes a specific...

• Author(s): Goran Therborn • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFew concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of "ideology." Whether read as the expression of social classes o...

• Author(s): Threlfall | Monica • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Women's StudiesThe movement that began in the 1960s in the United States has gone through many permutations, continuously...

• Author(s): Shlomo Sand • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismErnest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who...

• Author(s): Carlo Ginzburg • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Europe - ItalyA bomb, an anarchist's 'accidental death', the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dub...

• Author(s): Aaron Sahr • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political EconomyWhy society needs to reclaim the power to create money At the heart of capitalism lies the ability of private banks to create money at the stroke of a...

• Author(s): Michele Barrett • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryAlthough family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society c...

• Author(s): Thomas Hazeldine • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Canada - GeneralA history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matterDifferences between England's North and South continue to shape national politics...

• Author(s): McKenzie Wark • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future What happened to the p...

• Author(s): Kevin B. Anderson • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indi...

• Author(s): Pierre Dardot • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalWhat is new about neoliberalism? Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval contend that it is more than just a new economic paradigm -- it is a system for transfor...