Bücher veröffentlicht von Verso Books

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

For 78 days in 1999, US and NATO forces launched round-the-clock aerial attacks against Yugoslavia, killing upwards of 3000 people in the name of humanitarianism. This book challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agendas behind Western talk and a decade-long disinformation campaign waged by western leaders.

An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture';Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.' In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgerya process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football, Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive. Revealing, honest, humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, in which Jacques and Heti discuss the cruxes of writing and identity.

Contemporary philosophy of science has paid close attention to the understanding of scientific practice, in contrast to the previous focus on scientific method. This work shows the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about the nature of knowledge. It argues that the only feasible explanation of any scientific success is a historical account.

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain

Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx's theory of value

A tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance

A LIFEWORK FINDING THE SEEDS OF EMANCIPATION IN EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

The British peoples’ dramatic struggle for the right to vote

Ho Chi Minh’s lost formative years in Paris

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

Capitalism is an ecocidal engine constantly regenerating climate change denial

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare

When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done?

Modern "sub-urbs" as a place of vibrancy, conflict and resistance

HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE

How democracy can be extended to the workplace

How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work

Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice.

The revolutionary world leader’s extraordinary life, published for the centenary of Lenin’s death

"Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project eventually culminating in a study of Lenin's life and politics. The three works would have constituted, he hoped, "a triptych of some artistic unity." But it was not to be; by the time of his sudden death in 1967, Deutscher had only managed to complete the first chapter, this book, which covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to the execution of his brother, Alexander Ulyanov, a traumatic but formative event. Based on a lifetime of background research, including access to the closed section of Trotsky's archives, Lenin's Childhood gave, at the time of its posthumous publication, a novel interpretation of the earliest influences in Lenin's personality and thinking. Most of all, it offers a glimpse into a work unfinished, a work which would have striven save Lenin from fanatical anti-revolutionary condemnation, and, perhaps more importantly, from uncritical communist beatification"--

Lenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement

A graphic exploration of action, resistance, and radicalism among eighteenth-century pirates

A radical re-envisioning of the human condition