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  • Anatomy of Disintegration

    What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right

    by Rodrigo Nunes ...
    A leading political philosopher dissects the global far right’s appeal through the lens of Bolsonarismo, tracing its roots to the social disintegration caused by the crisis of neoliberalism and looming climate changeFor four years, Jair Bolsonaro led Brazil and the popular, far-right movement that bore his name. His rise, defeat, and the chaos he left in his wake reflect patterns that are playing ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal

    A Theory of Political Organization

    by Rodrigo Nunes ...
    How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "horizontal" and "leaderless" swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back to what was once called "the question of organisation". For something so often described as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ends of the World

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Déborah Danowski ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes ...
    The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Error, Illusion, Madness

    by Bento Prado Jr. ...
    Translated by Marco Oliveira, Rodrigo Nunes ...
    Series series Critical South
    This book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the subject and its forms of expression. In a context where the category of the subject was being at once dismissed by structuralist and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Metal Oxide Nanostructures

    Synthesis, Properties and Applications

    by Lidia Santos, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Daniela Nunes, Ana Pimentel, Pedro Barquinha, Luís Miguel Nunes Pereira ...
    Series series Metal Oxides
    Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications covers the theoretical and experimental aspects related to design, synthesis, fabrication, processing, structural, morphological, optical and electronic properties on the topic. In addition, it reviews surface functionalization and hybrid materials, focusing on the advantages of these oxide nanostructures. The book concludes with ... Read more

    $185.59 CAD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Existentialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Flynn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which emphasized individuality, free will, and personal responsibility in the modern world. Drawing in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Assembly

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    Series series Heretical Thought
    In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $24.75 CAD

  • Dark Ecology

    For a Logic of Future Coexistence

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD