Commentary & Opinion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637632116Author Glenn BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm *...

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the...

In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from...

We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has "printed" too...

Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe...

In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while...

In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he...

Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it’s my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982146416Author C J HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Consent Factory PublishingPublisher Consent Factory PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015988Author Miles TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890223Author Amy SchillerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular...

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman...

In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In...

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593473986Author Jonathan KarlFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925138764Author Brendan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

Now with new Preface.'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be - or currently serving - politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLSAs the list of U-turns grows ever longer, the cost of living crisis...

As we rebuild our lives in the wake of Covid-19 and face the challenges of ecological disaster, how can the left win a world fit for life? Planet on Fire is an urgent manifesto for a fundamental reimagining of the global economy. It offers a clear and...

Selected as one of the 15 best political and current affairs books of 2022 by The TimesIs Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn's tenure as Labour leader and the prospects for parliamentary socialism in a post-Corbyn Britain. Lively and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487005252Author Michael Eric DysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint House of Anansi PressPublisher House of Anansi PressWeight(grams) 159g

The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level -...

Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that reactivating the longstanding demand for shorter working hours should be central to any progressive trajectory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087987156Author William M BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was revived within the democratic socialists in the US,...

Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a serious mistake. Unlike the neoliberal technocrats, who can point to social problems and tell people "trust us", the...

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a...

'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He deals with serious subjects in an immensely readable way ... If I'm asked to nominate my book of the year,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593087565Author Christine EmbaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

The much-needed manifesto by the Sanest Politician in the Entire Cosmos, from capping the price of croissants at GBP1 to taking over Downing Street.'Count Binface will be Prime Minister. It's only a matter of time' IndependentGreetings, life-form! My...

Examining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country, Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate. The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper...

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value...

'One of the most original and talented young writers we have.' Sathnam Sanghera 'A must-read.' Elizabeth Day ...

'P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer of his generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that he belongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker in the Pantheon of Quote...

Stuart Hall was one of the most insightful and incisive critics of the Thatcher era. In this essential selection of his essays during the period, he elaborates both how Thatcher's rise to power exploited weakness in the left, but also how the left itself...

Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme...

Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, political polarization is at an all-time high, our government seems paralyzed and our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. No wonder, then, that voters and politicians alike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106910Author Christopher CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get...