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  • Waiting: stories

    Stories

    by Dumitru Tsepeneag ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Though best known now for his novels, this collection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and "onirist" not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpse into the secret history of surrealism uunder the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. In these stories, life is both banal and bizarre, on the verge of breaking down, like a film loop played once too often, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Development

    From Western Origins to Global Faith

    by Gilbert Rist ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Series series Development Essentials
    In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, and the supposed triumph of third-worldism, through to new concerns about the environment and globalization.Assessing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Climate Wars

    What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century

    by Harald Welzer ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological rivalries between great powers but rather on issues of class, religion and resources. The genocides of the last century have taught ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Fidel Castro

    A Biography

    by Volker Skierka ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time – he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo – the man who freed his country from dependence on the USA and who lead his people to rediscover their national identity and pride.Castro has outlived generations of American presidents and Soviet leaders. He has survived countless ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    by Jörn Leonhard ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Buying Time

    The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller, David Fernbach ...
    The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding as to precisely what is happening and how it started.In this new edition of a highly acclaimed book, Wolfgang Streeck revisits his recent arguments in the light of Brexit and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Last Years of Karl Marx

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Marcello Musto ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Tailor of Ulm

    A History of Communism

    by Lucio Magri ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate death, accelerated by the desire for a “new beginning.” That new beginning never came, and the world lost an invaluable, complex political, organizational and theoretical heritage.In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Much Globalization Can We Bear?

    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    by Rüdiger Safranski ...
    According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Price of Democracy

    How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It

    by Julia Cagé ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide elections. But it’s hardly news that, in reality, political outcomes are heavily determined by the logic of one dollar, one vote. We ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • How to Democratize Europe

    by Stéphanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez, Jeremy Adelman, Anne-Laure Delatte, Paul Magnette, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Pierre Moscovici, Luuk van Middelaar, Vestert Borger, Christian Joerges, Iphigénie Kamtsidou, Ulrike Liebert, Rui Tavares ...
    Translated by Paul Dermine, Marc LePain, Patrick Camiller ...
    An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and fiscal justice and public investment.The European Union is struggling. The rise of Euroskeptic parties in member states, economic distress in the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • All Life is Problem Solving

    by Karl Popper ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the PrefaceAll Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook