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Endangered Economies
Geoffrey Heal
A leading environmental economist demonstrates the close, complicated relationship between the economy and the environment, and that environmental protections are the only way to achieve long-term economic growth.
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Critical Theory in Critical Times
Penelope Deutscher and Cristina Lafont
Examining current global crises and international disputes, eleven of the most distinguished critical theorists offer new perspectives on these issues and transformations of the global political and economic order.
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Left Wing Melancholia
Enzo Traverso
An intellectual historian looks at the culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy that have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique.
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Tainted Witness
Leigh Gilmore
Women are so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences in both legal courts and the court of public opinion. This book studies the factors behind this, bringing together feminist, literary and legal frameworks to show what happens when women’s testimony is discredited.
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