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Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal Adrian Pabst 9781509546817
RRP: €17.84€16.16Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: €13.08€9.51From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things... -
The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies by Stephen Farrall 9780197265703
€34.26Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take stock of the concept of 'Thatcherism' and the prominent role it has played in the history of post-war Britain. Of course, there is much debate about... -
The Breakdown: Making Sense of Politics in a Messed Up World by Tatton Spiller
RRP: €15.46€10.94At last, a sane voice of reason that cuts through all the noise; In the deepest, darkest depths of history, there was once a time when most families had only one screen in their house with just three, four or five channels. This forced people into a... -
Spin, Spies and the Fourth Estate: British Intelligence and the Media by Paul Lashmar
RRP: €20.22€16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443081Author Paul LashmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk 9780195373196
RRP: €16.65€12.90Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L... -
Sharks by Kit Elliot 9781801052528
RRP: €11.89€9.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801052528Author Kit ElliotFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 253mm *... -
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847013743
RRP: €30.93€26.22Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". ... -
Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser
€42.05Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx's project could only be revived... -
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Kevin Anderson 9781583671030
RRP: €22.55€19.08Among the major Marxist thinkers of the period of the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: €32.12€30.26At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
Strategy in the Contemporary World by John Baylis 9780192845719
RRP: €45.21€43.10Bringing together experts from across the globe to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters,... -
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat 9781503613577
RRP: €22.60€19.90Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: €32.73€29.18When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an... -
Untitled: How Progressives Are Replacing Innocence with Radicalism by Karol Markowicz 9781956007084
RRP: €24.98€16.89The kids are not alright. The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of... -
You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen
RRP: €13.08€8.88The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
RRP: €17.84€11.85At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and... -
Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social media Marcus Gilroy-Ware 9781910924945
RRP: €10.70€7.50Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that... -
The Art of War and Other Chinese Military Classics by Sun Tzu 9781839401596
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839401596Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi by Gary Bruce 9780195392050
RRP: €60.69€50.08Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and... -
White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences by Themrise Khan 9781990263187
RRP: €24.98€17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263187Author Themrise KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 940g -
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
RRP: €10.70€7.91This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout... -
Chartist Revolution by Rob Sewell 9781913026189
€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026189Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: €13.08€9.06'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan... -
The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake Roger Hermiston 9781781311639
RRP: €16.65€11.07Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRE On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented... -
Antisocial: How Online Extremists Broke America by Andrew Marantz
RRP: €11.89€8.90'An absorbing study of online propaganda and its threat to democracy' - Guardian, Book of the Day'A wonderful record of these haywire times . . . it really explains how we ended up in this mess' - Jon RonsonThis is a story about how the extreme became... -
The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Was by Michael Heney
RRP: €11.89€8.58The number one Irish Times bestseller In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed was a cause celebre at the time... -
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €11.89€8.64In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal... -
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier
RRP: €21.41€18.24No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the cliches about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," detournement and derive, lies a more complex story about... -
Rationality and Power by Bent Flyvberg
RRP: €28.56€27.41In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined, independent of context; we know what rationality is, and its meaning is constant across time and space. However, Bent Flyvbjerg argues that rationality is context-dependent and that... -
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
RRP: €17.84€14.02US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens... -
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
RRP: €13.08€9.51Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?How should we exercise power?Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where... -
Mau Mau From Within: The Story of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army by Karari Njama
RRP: €38.07€25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832593Author Karari NjamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 1875g -
Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It Joshua Davila 9781914420856
RRP: €15.46€10.35Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn't a... -
Economics of Healthcare: A Brief Introduction by Andrew Friedson 9781009258432
RRP: €41.64€37.12An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US healthcare system. The conversational writing style, with occasional doses of humour, allows students to see... -
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World by Raghuram Rajan
RRP: €15.46€10.36SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against... -
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Fredrik deBoer 9781668016022
RRP: €11.89€7.87An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, “one of the sharpest and funniest... -
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper
RRP: €21.41€17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408345Author Melinda CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Kennedy's Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 & JFK's Assassination by Michael E Salla 9780982290262
RRP: €13.45€12.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe by Marek Kohn
RRP: €23.80€20.21A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle...