Verso Books: 696 books
The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide...
by Frederic Gros
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche
In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B – the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble – and...
by Sara Paretsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski’s coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the women’s movement. Bestselling crime-writer Sarah Paretsky has won critical acclaim for her...
The E.U.
An Obituary
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?
Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham’s swingeing study explains why the European Union is so profoundly unsuited to the modern political economy. In a devastating historical account of political failure, he takes...
No God But Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...
by Mao Tse-Tung
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj iek
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blood and stimulate the mind. Drawing on a dizzying array...
Class War
The Privatization of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers
In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providing...
The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious...
An Impatient Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France’s leading...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by...
Hollow City
The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
Desire Unlimited
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the
film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always
visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk to
Her to the 2011 horror film The...
Atlas of Emotion
Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture
Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between...
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously...