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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe
RRP: $19.34$12.75A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of... -
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye
RRP: $14.18$9.18THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we' Independent 'Unsparing, important and weighty ... a vitally needed antidote' Observer 'A moving and... -
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
RRP: $14.18$9.35Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest
RRP: $25.80$18.43Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written... -
Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands by Bobby Sands
RRP: $16.76$14.98In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts
RRP: $19.34$14.13The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye 9780241423141
RRP: $25.80$18.95THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we' Independent'Unsparing, important and weighty ... a vitally needed antidote' Observer'Takes the status quo by the... -
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true.' - TimeIn this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain... -
American Conspiracy Theories by Joseph E. Uscinski
$69.76We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell, fears of a powerful infiltrating group such as the Illuminati, Jews,... -
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die by Katie Engelhart
RRP: $12.89$8.64BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR AND THE TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped?... -
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
RRP: $14.18$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225813Author Angela DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 106g -
The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence by Eyal Weizman
RRP: $16.76$10.94The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian... -
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas 9780316279291
RRP: $34.83$22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316279291Author Leah ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint VoraciousPublisher VoraciousWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 132mm * 20mm -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: $38.64$30.43Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
The China Nexus by Benedict Rogers
RRP: $24.45$16.31Benedict Rogers first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools and hospitals... -
The Woman They Could Not Silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear by Kate Moore
RRP: $14.18$9.44From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was,... -
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies by Stefania Maurizi
RRP: $19.34$15.85*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022* 'I want to live in a society where... -
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything by Becky Bond 9781603587273
RRP: $19.34$12.64Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the "rules" that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a... -
The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics by Cyndi Suarez 9780865718814
RRP: $21.92$15.05Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all... -
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
RRP: $9.02$6.62'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon SchamaAmos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of... -
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
RRP: $16.76$11.46In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the... -
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it by Laura Dodsworth 9780008600945
RRP: $28.38$24.88Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks,... -
The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
RRP: $19.34$14.13'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael PalinFOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMBJournalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: $14.18$10.02A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken... -
Humanitarian Action and Ethics by Ayesha Ahmad 9781786992673
RRP: $30.95$27.01From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by... -
No Future Without Forgiveness by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
RRP: $19.34$14.13No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. He examines his reactions on being able to vote for the first time... -
The Art of Protest: What a Revolution Looks Like by De Nichols 9781787417663
RRP: $21.92$14.812023 WINNER OF THE BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD!2022 WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS IN THE CHILDREN'S TRADE 9 TO 16 CATEGORY!"Start making. Start being the change you want to see in this world." - De NicholsFrom the psychedelic typography... -
Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans
RRP: $16.71$10.53Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form. At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are championed by the mainstream, philosopher and activist Heather Brunskell-Evans shows how, in plain view under the... -
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
RRP: $18.05$14.60Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent... -
The Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
RRP: $19.34$14.13Guardian's Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil rights and the many people on whom it bears.' Colm... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: $16.76$11.53WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 'How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through prison walls, borders, and languages.' - Valzhyna Mort ... -
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military Hospital by Wendy Moore
RRP: $12.89$8.64A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to... -
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
RRP: $32.24$21.13Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher... -
Cyborg by Laura Forlano 9780262547550
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547550Author Laura ForlanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
RRP: $15.47$10.14Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias, collusion and manipulated evidence. He has been the... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
RRP: $25.80$17.72WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY The Western... -
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
RRP: $12.89$8.57Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: $12.89$8.57The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a... -
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
RRP: $12.89$10.54In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public... -
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad 9781642592764
RRP: $21.92$15.05Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be...