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Engelsk non fiction div. |

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world

Fiction |

The instant cult classic from the incomparable Jenny Hval

Engelsk non fiction div. |

Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.

Engelske bøger |

*** Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 ***** Named word of the year in US, UK and Australia ***'Enshittification' will be the most talked about tech book of the year.* "Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the deca

Psykologi: seksuel adfærd > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that womens desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what womenand their bo

Samfunds- & politisk filosofi > Emner i filosofi > Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

Responding to the USs perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity. In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from

Engelske bøger |

Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucaults biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the

By- & kommuneplanlægning > Regional - og arealplanlægning > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, w

Biography |

A graphic novel version of the dramatic life and untimely death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Engelsk non fiction div. |

What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century? What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century?

Miljøbeskyttelse: ideologi > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous term

Revolutioner, opstand og oprør > Historie: specielle begivenheder > Historie > Historie og samfund |

Lenins originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenins true greatness can be better grasped in the very last coupl

Sociologi: familie og relationer > Sociologi > Sociologi og antropologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

"Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on realizing the implications of knowing that we all actuall

Psykologi: seksuel adfærd > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that womens desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what womenand their bo

Psykologi: seksuel adfærd > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Petersons richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawaii to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny.

Moderne Samtidslitteratur > Skønlitteratur: generelt > Skønlitteratur |

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granadoss stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth

underholdning|bog|bøger|erhverv |

Money is rapidly being replaced by tokens issued by digital platforms, reshaping how we think about... Sideantal: 336. Genre: erhverv

Europæisk historie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurgency that emerged from th

Holocaust > Folkemord og etnisk udrensning > Historie: specielle begivenheder > Historie > Historie og samfund |

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the ArabIsra

Fascisme og nazisme > Politiske ideologier > Politik og regering > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these peo

Politik og regering > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology

Lyrik af en forfatter > Digte > Biografier & Litteratur |

"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest

Klimaændringer > Forurening og trusler mod miljøet > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emissi

Fiction |

An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures

Klimaændringer > Forurening og trusler mod miljøet > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful state in human history are dedicating themselves with passion

Militærhistorie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the lefts most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, Russia annex

Tegneseriestriber > Tegneserier |

A Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab worlds greatest cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, known as the Palestinian Malcolm X. Discovered in the 1950s, he was revered throughout the region for his outspokenness, honesty and humanity. Resolutely i

Samfunds- & politisk filosofi > Emner i filosofi > Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future through writings by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cicero, and more. Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida w

Engelsk non fiction div. |

What does care mean? who exactly is paying for the Global Financial Crisis in term of care?

Engelsk non fiction div. |

A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean's enigmatic heart

Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a plague of fantasies, electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractionswhether those of digital technology or the sp

Science fiction > Skønlitteratur |

Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas Mores Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a te

Transport > Hobbybøger |

On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commoditiesiron ore, coal, oilarrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels Chinas ma

Byplanlægning: arkitektoniske aspekter > Landskabskunst & arkitektur > Arkitektur > Bøger om kunst og kultur |

Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. Instead, Medium Design speaks to anyone looking for alternat

Psykologi: seksuel adfærd > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why

Krigsforbrydelser > Andre emner inden for krigsførelse og forsvar > Krigsførelse og forsvar > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his o

Livstil & Udseende: Guides > Hobbybøger |

Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built on the commodification of creativity and desire, authenticity and intimacy. Ou

Psykoanalytisk teori > Psykologisk teori og skoleretninger > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and todays most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political t

Psykologi: seksuel adfærd > Psykologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC is a bold examination of intersex liberation. Juliana Gleeson reveals how a movement challenged systemic medical abuses to reshape our understanding of sex. Blending philosophical insights and personal testimonies, Gleeson argues that

Samfundsteori > Sociologi > Sociologi og antropologi > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Amateurs! is the story of how YOU created internet culture and why it matters. Web 2.0 invited users to create: blogs, vlogs, tweets, memes and more. For the first time in history, art became *the* fundamental form of communication. What started as fun be

Kritik og eksegese af hellige tekster > Religionsfænomenologi > Religion og tro > Filosofi og religion |

Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, the acclaimed writer Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Quran and

Engelske bøger |

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all d

Softwarepakker > Virksomhedssoftware > Databehandling og informationsteknologi |

An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. F

Kulturstudier > Kulturstudier og medievidenskab > Samfund & Kultur > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

How technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at art The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today''s diverse practice? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal,

Afrikansk historie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopme

Art |

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

Engelsk non fiction div. |

Liberal civilisation is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.

Engelske bøger |

A fourteen-point manifesto to bring architecture into the twenty-first century

Strukturalisme og poststrukturalisme > Moderne filosofi: efter 1800 > Filosofihistorie & traditioner > Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its scope. This book aims to understand the passage from on

Sociale konsekvenser af miljøproblemer > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isnt working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fos

Kunstig intelligens > Informatik > Databehandling og informationsteknologi |

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argue

Samfunds- & politisk filosofi > Emner i filosofi > Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism,

Bevaring af miljøet > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of

Politik og regering > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, fath

Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori > Emner i filosofi > Filosofi > Filosofi og religion |

Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can onl

By- & kommuneplanlægning > Regional - og arealplanlægning > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice , Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for

Engelske bøger |

"Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to everyday essential, to what we have today. "Enshittification" has been word of the year in the UK, USA and Australia. It's been printed in the pages

Økonomiske systemer og strukturer > Økonomi > Økonomi, finans, erhvervsliv og ledelse |

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno Lectu

Klimaændringer > Forurening og trusler mod miljøet > Miljø > Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab |

A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning

Politiske ledere og ledelse > Politiske strukturer og processer > Politik og regering > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

One of seven children raised in abject poverty by a single parent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acquired his politics on the hard road of personal suffering, inspired by the selfless example of his mother. He started work at the age of eight and didnt learn

Terrorisme og væbnet kamp > Politisk aktivisme > Politik og regering > Samfund og samfundsvidenskab |

America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural supporte

Økonomisk historie > Økonomi > Økonomi, finans, erhvervsliv og ledelse |

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork

Militærhistorie: konflikter efter anden verdenskrig > Specifikke krige og felttog > Militærhistorie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a d