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In the Name of Sharks
$22.95PaperbackRead moreTwenty metres below water, the oceanographer Fran輟is Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experie
- Author: Sarano, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1509557679
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75HardcoverAdd to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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By: Byrne, Alex
Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions
$19.95HardcoverRead moreSex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparen
- Author: Byrne, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1509560017
- Language: English
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Russia Against Modernity
$19.95PaperbackRead morePutin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and d
- Author: Etkind, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556583
- Language: English
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By: Venezia, Shlomo
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95PaperbackRead moreThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00HardcoverRead moreMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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By: Krenak, Ailton
Ancestral Future
$14.95PaperbackRead moreIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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By: Felsch, Philipp
How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
$29.95HardcoverRead moreNietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shado
- Author: Felsch, Philipp
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 150955761X
- Language: English
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By: Rudenko, Serhii
Zelensky: A Biography
$16.95PaperbackRead moreThree years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the publ
- Author: Rudenko, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 150956067X
- Language: English
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By: Kermani, Navid
Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer: Questions about God
$25.00HardcoverAdd to cart‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room
- Author: Kermani, Navid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556273
- Language: English
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By: Rifkin, Jeremy
Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe
$29.95HardcoverRead moreWhat would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect i… [more below]
- Author: Rifkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509563733
- Language: English
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By: Lappin, Shalom
The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World
$29.95HardcoverRead moreGenerations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and e
- Author: Lappin, Shalom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 150955856X
- Language: English
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By: Martin Rees
If Science Is to Save Us
$14.95HardcoverRead moreThere has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor ha
- Author: Rees, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1509554203
- Language: English
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By: Serhii Rudenko
Zelensky: A Biography
$25.00HardcoverRead moreThree years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the publ
- Author: Rudenko, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1509556389
- Language: English
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics
$12.95PaperbackRead moreJ?gen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blen
- Author: Habermas, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558942
- Language: English
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By: Jackson, Tim
Post Growth: Life After Capitalism
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics
Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and l
- Author: Jackson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1509542523
- Language: English
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By: Misse, Miquel
The Myth of the Wrong Body
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should theref
- Author: Misse, Miquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1509551883
- Language: English
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By: Jonathan Glover
Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind
$25.00HardcoverRead moreCan Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this c
- Author: Glover, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559787
- Language: English
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By: Bruno LaTour
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo
$12.99PaperbackRead moreUnder what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1509555064
- Language: English
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By: Krenak, Ailton
Life Is Not Useful
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, pr
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 150955405X
- Language: English





