Books published by Verso Books

Here, in this fourth collection, Baudrillard's stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject, than of the barely participant observer, an "internal exile" watching the world with fierce insistence, yet registering our shortage of reality.

This volume shows that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. It includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States.

Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian society. The work of 21 of Brazilian photographers is shown, and the text describes the new uses of photography within the contemporary arts.

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis