Politics

The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major...

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever...

A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and...

'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' - ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeFT Book of the MonthYour words matter more than you thinkMost of us use the language we inherited from a...

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism...

A Sunday Times BestsellerChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucksters, exposing falsehood and decrying hypocrisy...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...

**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625546Author Robert MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. In Scialabba's hands, literary criticism...

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic...

A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of...

With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince-a metaphor of political authority, a figurative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826265Author Brendan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty...

George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding...

Victorian visitors had shooting lodges - Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte - Scots had Butlins. Why have the inhabitants of one of Europe's prime tourist destinations been elbowed off the land and exiled from nature for so...

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British...

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375311Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!Greetings citizens! Can you spot Boris?In an array of crowded scenes, from zip wires and bikes to Beijing and the Bullingdon Club, search for Boris amongst the masses. Anyone for...

A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely...

In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375415036Author George OrwellFormat HardbackPage Count 1416Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1213gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728955Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062947369Author Azar NafisiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ...

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ...

Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and-by extension-the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future...

"Astute."-New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been...

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

Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,...

The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural...

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp...