Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 1839767731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
VERSO RADICAL DIARY AND WEEKLY PLANNER 2023
Author: VERSO RADICAL DIARY AND WEEKLY PLANNER 2025
Author: VERSO BOOKS UK.Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804295000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Verso Book of Dissent
Author: Andrew HsiaoPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788739116
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.
The Elephants in My Backyard
Author: Rajiv SurendraPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682450511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.
The Xenofeminist Manifesto
Author: Laboria CuboniksPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731573
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A pocket color manifesto for a new futuristic feminism Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a radical attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century. Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, both its tyrannical and emancipatory possibilities, the manifesto seeks to uproot forces of repression that have come to seem inevitable—from the family, to the body, to the idea of gender itself. If nature is unjust, change nature!
The Joyful Journal
Author: Octavia BromellPublisher: LOM ART
ISBN: 9781912785582
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful journal by illustrator and mental health advocate Octavia Bromell is the perfect everyday companion to spark a little joy and creativity in your life, guided by positive messages and colourful illustrations. With a combination of lined, dotted, squared and plain pages, this bright and inspiring journal encourages you to draw, scribble and write your way to a joyful day. For your todo lists, to-don't lists, your dreams and your hopes.
Verso Radical Diary 2017
Author: VersoPublisher: Verso Trade
ISBN: 9781784786854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The largest English independent radical publishing house in the English-speaking world has been publishing key books of international history and politics for the Left for almost 50 years. The 2017 Verso Radical Diary is not just a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year, including international holidays, it also includes significant dates in radical history from Spartacus to #blacklivesmatter - from the English Civil War to the American War of Independence, to the Russian Revolution, slave rebellions and the movements of '68, and from trade unionism to Occupy. The body of the diary is cleanly set apart to prioritize utility, while the marginalia is brought to life through beautiful illustrations, galvanizing quotes, and grounding context. The 2017 Verso Radical Diary is the perfect resource for the politically-conscious to stay historically in-the-know through the everyday use of a beautifullydesigned, grab-and-go personal planner.
It's Complicated
Author: Danah BoydPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Planet of Slums
Author: Mike DavisPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844671607
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself
Author: Isabelle ; Jordan Fremeaux (Jay)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745345895
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history"--
