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Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.50**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,'... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $24.34SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of... -
Capital: Volumes One and Two by Karl Marx 9781840226997
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $7.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.41In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,... -
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.09A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers"Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A... -
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt 9781399602747
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And... -
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.01Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, an indispensable book for understanding the situation in Gaza right nowWhat is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and... -
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Her Honour Wendy Joseph
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2023'Wendy Joseph's gripping account of the law at work reads like a cliffhanger.' Sunday Times'Absolutely superb. 5... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.90The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of... -
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.24A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Lyndsey Stonebridge 9781529933406
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK... -
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory Gillian Rose 9781804290118
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.56Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers:... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray 9780141999432
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'Britain's best philosopher - he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order' Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan... -
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly... -
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $14.43Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has... -
Free Will by Sam Harris
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780008296506
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.36HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his... -
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukacs 9780850361971
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.66Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. "When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order," Marx declares, "it does no... -
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham 9781839013959
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32A classic work of political theory and practise, this book makes available an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in... -
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World by Andreas Malm 9781788739405
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth Kohei Saito 9781399612999
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06'Simply indispensible' SLAVOJ ZIZEK'Necessary and energising' JOHN VAILLANT, author of FIRE WEATHER THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTSIn SLOW DOWN, award-winning... -
21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges by Charles Handy
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on... -
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.94One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed... -
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804732185
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of... -
The Republic by Plato
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $13.94The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form... -
The Book of Delights: The life-affirming New York Times bestseller by Ross Gay
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.79A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Heard on NPR's This American Life'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . ... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration by Teresa M. Bejan 9780674241640
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $35.08A New Statesman Best Book of the YearA Church Times Book of the YearWe are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating... -
The Prince: The Original Classic Niccolo Machiavelli 9780857080783
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.05THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $54.23Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and... -
Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions by Alex Byrne 9781509560011
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.71Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary... -
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.68'People can only be free in relation to one another.'Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without... -
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $31.55In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues... -
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel... -
The Communist Manifesto: The Political Classic Karl Marx 9780857088765
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.05DISCOVER THE WORK THAT LAUNCHED REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD Although it was published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is as controversial and provocative as ever. Its stirring and poetic language...