Insurgencies by Antonio Negri

Insurgencies
Constituent Power and the Modern State
Antonio Negri
Foreword by Michael Hardt
Translated by Maurizia Boscagli

University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816667741
December 2009
Paper Back 384 pages
Price :$30.00

In the ten years since the initial publication of Insurgencies, Antonio Negri’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost political philosophers has grown dramatically. An invigorating appraisal of revolutionary thought, Insurgencies is both the precursor to and the historical basis for Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s masterwork, Empire.
At the center of this book is the conflict between “constituent power,” the democratic force of revolutionary innovation, and “constituted power,” the fixed power of formal constitutions and central authority. This conflict, Negri argues, defines the drama of modern rebellions. Now with a foreword by Michael Hardt, Insurgencies leads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a democratic future.

Antonio Negri, who has taught at the University of Padua and the University of Paris, is the author of more than thirty books, including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt; The Savage Anomalyy (Minnesota, 2000); and In Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008).
Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author of Empire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well as Labor of Dionysus and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates

Why Unions Matter
Michael D. Yates

Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 978-1-58367-190-0
Paperback 200 Pages
Price :$17.95

In Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to show why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
The new edition not only updates the first, but also examines the record of the New Voice slate that took control of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the continuing decline in union membership and density, the Change to Win split in 2005, the growing importance of immigrant workers, the rise of worker centers, the impacts of and labor responses to globalization, and the need for labor to have an independent political voice. This is simply the best introduction to unions on the market.

Michael D. Yates is Associate Editor of Monthly Review and Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. He has taught working people in Labor Studies programs at Penn State University; The University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Cornell University; Indiana University; and Baltimore County Community College. He is the author of Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue, Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy, and Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs.

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
William H. Gass - Introduction

New York Review Books - April 2001
ISBN :9780940322660
Paperback 1392 pages
Price: $24.95

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it “the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing,” while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton’s spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today’s readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.

Robert Burton (1577-1640) was elected a student of Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1599 and took his B.D. in 1614. He served as a vicar in Oxford and then as the rector of Seagrave. The Anatomy of Melancholy appeared in five editions during the author's lifetime and has been reprinted countless times since.

The Feminist Papers - From Adams to de Beauvoir

The Feminist Papers
From Adams to de Beauvoir
Alice S. Rossi - Editor

Northeastern University Press
Distributed By University Press of New England
ISBN :9781555530280
Paper Back 716 Pages
Price : $27.95

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The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber

The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber - Volume. 1
Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists
Richard Altschuler - Editor

Gordian Knot Books
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
ISBN :9781884092541
Paper Back 592 Pages
Price :$45.00

The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber - Volume. 2
Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists
Richard Altschuler - Editor

Gordian Knot Books
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
ISBN :9781884092558
Paper Back 485 Pages
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An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain

Cosmos Latinos
An Anthology of Early Classics of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán - Editors

Wesleyan University Press
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
9780819566348
Paper Back 368 Pages
Price :$24.95

Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for English-speaking readers, this anthology offers popular and influential stories from over ten countries, chronologically ranging from 1862 to the present. Latin American and Spanish science fiction shares many thematic and stylistic elements with anglophone science fiction, but there are important differences: many downplay scientific plausibility, and others show the influence of the region’s celebrated literary fantastic. In the 27 stories included in this anthology, a 16th-century conquistador is re-envisioned as a cosmonaut, Mexican factory workers receive pleasure-giving bio-implants, and warring bands of terrorists travel through time attempting to reverse the outcome of historical events.
The introduction examines the ways the genre has developed in Latin America and Spain since the 1700s and studies science fiction as a means of defamiliarizing, and then critiquing, regional culture, history and politics—especially in times of censorship and political repression. The volume also includes a brief introduction to each story and its author, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works. Cosmos Latinos is a critical contribution to Latin American, Spanish, popular culture and science fiction studies and will be stimulating reading for anyone who likes a good story.
ANDREA L. BELL is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Hamline University in Minnesota.
YOLANDA MOLINA-GAVILÀN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eckerd College in Florida and the translator of Rosa Montero’s The Delta Function (1992).

Poems of Nazim Hikmet

Poems of Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet
Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk (Translators)
Carloyn Forché (Foreword)

Persea Books
ISBN :9780892552740
Paperback 304 pages
Price :$17.95

This exciting new edition of the poems of Nazim Hikmet adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, already acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.

Nazim Hikmet is considered Turkey's greatest modern poet. For his Communist views, he was imprisoned in Turkey and his work was banned. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. He won the World Peace Prize in 1950.
Randy Blading is author of seven books of poetry, including Choice Words: Poems 1970-2005.
Mutlu Konuk, a native of Istanbul, is Professor of English at Brown University.

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Keynes -Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist

Keynes
The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist
Peter Clarke

Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781408803851
September 2009
Hardback 224 pages
Price: £16.99 Sp.Price :1099.00

In the midst of our current economic crisis, we peer anxiously over the precipice into an uncertain future, and try to put things in perspective by looking to the past. One name above all keeps on cropping up; often there is a grainy picture of a tall man with thinning hair and a heavy moustache, a half-familiar figure from a former era of worldwide economic depression – an era that closed when the Second World War peremptorily intervened.
The name of John Maynard Keynes first came to public attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 1920s, when the depression in Britain engaged his attention, with the argument that unemployment needed a radical remedy. This was a direct attack on the orthodoxy of the free-market doctrines of the day, with their reliance on the self-acting mechanisms of the Gold Standard and Free Trade to do the trick – in the long run. No, said Keynes, coining one of his most famous phrases: ‘In the long run we are all dead.’
It is a measure of Keynes’s apotheosis that it was President Nixon who said in 1971 that ‘we are all Keynesians now’, but slowly the name of Keynes lost its gilt; his thinking was dismissed as ‘depression economics’, irrelevant in a booming economic world.

And then came the great meltdown of 2008.

Incomprehensibly the market forces, on which the rising generation had been taught to rely, failed to deliver the goods, failed to offer self-correction and failed to cope with a self-inflicted crisis of confidence. For thirty years Keynes’s reputation had languished; in thirty days the defunct economist was rediscovered and rehabilitated.
Engaging and authoratitive, Keynes explores the often misunderstood man in the context of his own life and times – the impact of his homosexuality and his later marriage to ballerina Lydia Lopokova – and questions the relevence and significance of his groundbreaking ideas today.
Peter Clarke was formerly Professor of Modern British history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936, and the widely admired final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900–2000. He lives with his wife, the Canadian writer Maria Tippett, in Suffolk, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.

Encyclopedia of African Literature

Encyclopedia of African Literature
Edited by Simon Gikandi

Routledge
ISBN: 9780415549622
May 2009
Paperback 648 Pages
Price: $59.95

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this easy-to-use book contains over 600 alphabetically arranged entries that cover major and less established African authors and texts, criticism and theory, and African Literature’s development as a field of scholarship.
Now available in paperback, this volume is an essential resource for students of African literature and a useful tool for those considering African culture across the fields of Literary Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Niki - The Story of a Dog by Tibor Déry

Niki - The Story of a Dog
Tibor Déry
Introduction by George Szirtes
Translated from the Hungarian by Edward Hyams

New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590173183
July 2009
Paperback 144 pages
Price: $14.95

"The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of '48": so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set things straight, and Mr. Ancsa, an engineer, is as eager to get to work building the future as he is to forget the past. The last thing he has time for is a little mongrel bitch, pregnant with her first litter. But Niki knows better, and before long she is part of the Ancsa household. The Ancsas even take her along with them when Mr. Ancsa's new job requires a move to an apartment in the city.
Then Mr. Ancsa is swept up in a political crackdown—disappearing without a trace. For five years he does not return, five years of absence, silence, fear, and the constant struggle to survive—five years during which Mrs. Ancsa and Niki have only each other.
The story of Niki, an ordinary dog, and the Ancsas, a no less ordinary couple, is an extraordinarily touching, utterly unsentimental, parable about caring, kindness, and the endurance of love.
Tibor Déry (1894-1977) was born in Budapest into a prosperous family of partly Jewish descent. In 1919, he joined the Communist Party and served in the ill-fated revolutionary government of Béla Kun, which collapsed before the end of the year. For much of the next fifteen years he lived in exile, returning to Hungary for good in 1935. Though initially well-regarded by Hungary's post- World War II Communist government, by 1953 Déry had been expelled from the party for his criticism of its increasingly repressive policies. He then supported Imre Nagy's reformist government and, after the Soviet suppression of the 1956 uprising, was sentenced to nine years in prisonAmong Déry's major works are Love and Other Stories, the novel The Unfinished Sentence, and an autobiography, No Verdict.

Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull

New York Review of Books
ISBN:9781590173190
Oct 6, 2009
Paperback 256 pages
Price: $15.95

Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train, winding up in a place where night is day, nightmares are the reality, and the backs of all facts have been broken; a man out looking for work comes across a line for logic but doesn't join it as there's no guarantee the logic will last; a sociable corpse misses his own funeral; an inventor gets a glimpse of the far-from-radiant communist future.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), the Ukrainian-born son of Catholic Poles, studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. After graduation and two summers spent exploring Europe, he was obliged to clerk for an attorney. A sinecure, the job allowed him to devote the bulk of his time to the study of literature and his own writing. In 1920, after a brief stint in the Red Army, Krzhizhanovsky began lecturing intensively in Kiev on the theater and music. The lectures continued in Moscow, where he moved in 1922, by then well known in literary circles. Lodged in a cell-like room on the Arbat, Krzhizhanovsky wrote steadily for close to two decades. His philosophical and satirical stories with fantastical plots ignored official injunctions to portray the new Soviet state in a positive light. Three separate efforts to print different collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II. Not until 1989 could these surreal fictions begin to be published. Like Poe, Krzhizhanovsky takes us to the edge of the abyss and forces us to look into it. "I am interested," he said, "not in the arithmetic, but in the algebra of life."