How Everything Can Collapse
A Manual for our Times
Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens
“This is an important book… it deserves a wide readership among all concerned citizens – and, even more, among those who can influence policy.”
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
“It’s high time and a cause for rejoicing that this matter-of-fact, warm-blooded guide to societal collapse is now available in English.”
Joanna Macy, co-author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to The Work That Reconnects
May 2020
Chicken
A History from Farmyard to Factory
Paul R. Josephson
Josephson tells the story of the chicken from all sides: the transformation of this popular bird from backyard scratcher to hyper-efficient industrial meat-product, as well as its history as an animal with endearing characteristics who can lay claim to being man’s best friend long before the dog reared its snout or the cat came in from the cold.
May 2020
A History of Solitude
David Vincent
“Superb… a remarkably versatile study.”
Terry Eagleton,The Guardian
At the dawn of the digital age, solitude has taken on new meanings, as physical isolation and intense sociability have become possible as never before. With the advent of a so-called loneliness epidemic, a proper historical understanding of the natural human desire to disengage from the world is more important than ever.
February 2020
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Bauman
A Biography
Izabela Wagner
“Who was Zygmunt Bauman? The late sociologist, known throughout the world for his path-breaking work on liquid modernity, had a biography. He was a Polish Jew, a soldier, a refugee. He had a whole life before Leeds. Izabela Wagner’s great achievement is to recover this other Bauman. This book will change the way we see Bauman, forever.”
Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University
June 2020
A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name
34 Untimely Interventions
Slavoj Žižek
“The most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
Adam Kirsch, New Republic
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation”
The New Yorker
March 2020
