A Radical History of the World

A fiery, intersectional guide for activists and witches alike, Revolutionary Witchcraft is an empowered introduction to the history and practice of...

DescriptionA classic book on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg's work with essays of political analysis by leading scholars As an advocate of social dem...

Reducere. Ammiel Alcalay's groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of rel...

Reducere. Sir Elton John, musician and philanthropist, has built one of the greatest private collections of photography in the world. This book presents an u...

A Penguin Classic Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bim...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

Reducere. Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or getting the world out of us. Many are looking to sp...

Reducere. Imagine God's Justice and Lead with CompassionLove. Justice. Solidarity. Living as siblings in the "kin-dom" of God requires bold faith. Women in t...

Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the ...

DescriptionFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ra...

Reducere. In 1877, Ephraim Shay came up with a radical design for a logging locomotive that featured a side-mounted set of cylinders. These drove drive shaft...

'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich' Radical Victorian reformer Henry M...

DescriptionOur urban spaces today struggle to thrive in the face corporate greed, increasing privatization, and rising inequality. Unlocking Sustai...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

Reducere. DescriptionHegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel propos...

Reducere. DescriptionThe modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster's influence on his students: "A minor miracle" (The New York Times). Through...

Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the cent...

Reducere. DescriptionZionism, Islam and the West is a wide-ranging, thoroughly referenced examination of the Zionist factor in world affairs. Bolton traces t...

Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups....

DescriptionIn today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music an...

Reducere. The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing--and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nati...

DescriptionThe Australian Independent Companies and the Commandos into which they evolved were unique sub-units of the Australian Army during the S...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Reducere. A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monogr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this, one of Dewey's most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his sea...

Reducere. "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian"Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." --...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us t...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bests...

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 "Greif" (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's "lost" strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built ...

‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted gener...

DescriptionFor the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia ab...

Misbehaviour, a major motion picture based on the author's life, and starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Jennifer Hosten), will be rel...

Reducere. This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant an...

Reducere. A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent developm...

Reducere. DescriptionThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in t...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout history the pursuit of strategic commodities has governed world affairs. Centuries ago salt enjoyed a monopoly over food pres...

Reducere. In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.To...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...

The "best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: "Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporar...

Reducere. The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles...

Reducere. If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Bu...

In this extensively researched ode to scandal, Peter Blecha recounts the travails of musicians who have dared to air "unacceptable" topics. Filled ...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The s...

This introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-ce...

Reducere. What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard pa...

Reducere. DescriptionHe Disagreed with Something that Ate Him analyses the two James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton made in 1987 and 1989. Critically ove...

DescriptionDescription: If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "the right" and purpor...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agn s Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late ...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revoluti...

Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged...

Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along, " nationally bests...

DescriptionWhen searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly...

Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola Heart of ...

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force i...

DescriptionA sweeping, multigenerational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice. As a child living in his fam...

Reducere. Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account ...

This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) a...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

Reducere. An exciting vision of the future --Michael Eric Dyson Rob Bell's Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your lif...

Reducere. In Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding ...

"Joe Hill's influence is everywhere. Without Joe Hill, there's no Woody Guthrie, no Dylan, no Springsteen, no Clash, no Public Enemy, no Minor Thre...

DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Reducere. Public support for the legal right to abortion in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet we're in the midst of an all-out assault on reprodu...

Reducere. The incarnation--the act of God assuming mortal flesh through Jesus Christ--reveals God's radical love for a world marked by the rebellion of the c...

Reducere. To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start... Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world's most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. Hi...