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London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid by Ken Keable 9780850366556
RRP: $35.08$30.79The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they... -
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala
RRP: $48.75$31.67'Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time' Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation..... -
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen 9781803510491
RRP: $21.43$14.27'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short... -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill
RRP: $48.75$36.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726173Author Fiona HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody War on Drugs by Antony Loewenstein 9781912854240
RRP: $33.13$23.95Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe,... -
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller 9780745340791
RRP: $29.23$23.97Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Like its mysterious name,... -
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: $29.23$19.27Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America by David Horowitz
RRP: $38.98$26.44"Read this disturbing but vital book." - Tucker CarlsonFrom the New York Times bestselling BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win author and leading conservative thinker comes DARK AGENDA, an extraordinary look into the left's calculated efforts to... -
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet by Christopher J. Orr 9780367346775
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.Freedom, in all its renditions - choice, thought, action - has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern... -
Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924 by Vikram Sampath 9780670090303
RRP: $56.45$41.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090303Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: $42.88$31.94Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of... -
Going to Seed: From Flower Child to Radical Farmer, a Counterculture Memoir by Simon Fairlie
RRP: $29.23$19.11Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in... -
The Choice by Claire Wade
RRP: $19.48$13.96'Electrifying' Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times Bestselling author of VOX'A cleverly woven tale' The Times*WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2020*Imagine a world where...Everything you ate was monitored by the government.Every step you... -
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82 by John Walker 9781032451633
RRP: $243.75$210.33This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test... -
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet by James Griffiths
RRP: $68.25$51.91'Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields - both technically and politically' - Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo 'An urgent and much needed reminder... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: $29.23$21.35John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... -
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg 9780197548226
RRP: $17.53$12.58A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard... -
Perils & Prospects of a United Ireland by Padraig O'Malley
RRP: $68.25$53.90Padraig O'Malley's Perils & Prospects of a United Ireland presents the definitive study of the questions around the future of Northern Irish politics, including the idea of reunification. Focusing on the topics of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Good... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography by Ralf Ruckus
RRP: $33.13$22.50'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti
$30.07On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, Britain's leading human rights campaignerOn 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 by Murray Armstrong
RRP: $33.13$22.50Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a... -
Freedom by Sebastian Junger 9780008421816
RRP: $25.33$17.73A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant... -
You Back The Attack!: Remixed War Propaganda by Micah Ian Wright 9781583225844
RRP: $21.43$15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225844Author Micah Ian WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 228g -
The Fixer by Joe Sacco
RRP: $33.13$24.94In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the... -
Covid Vaccine Adverse Reaction Survival Guide: Take Control of Your Recovery and Maximise Healing Potential by Caroline Pover 9781915294265
RRP: $29.23$19.89Understand the practical and emotional impact of your symptoms and learn to organise every step of your health management. If you're dealing with a range of complicated and confusing health problems following a Covid vaccination, this guide is for you... -
The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images by David Welch 9780712354318
RRP: $33.13$22.50Propaganda is thousands of years old. But it came of age in the 20th century, when the development of mass media (and later multimedia communications) offered a fertile ground for its dissemination, and the century's global conflicts provided the impetus... -
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria by Adam Mayer
RRP: $44.83$34.98Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the... -
The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison by Andy Worthington 9780745326641
RRP: $52.63$34.30In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington... -
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman 9781849352888
RRP: $25.35$19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352888Author Carla BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $15.58$11.29'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 politics, and no politics without freedom.One of twenty... -
Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other by Claudia Aradau 9780192859624
RRP: $157.95$144.22This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Are algorithms ruling... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: $48.75$43.27Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
Homeland Security in the UK: Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11 by Paul Wilkinson 9780415383752
RRP: $58.48$52.73This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era.Professor Paul Wilkinson and the other contributors assess the nature of UK... -
Militant by Michael Crick 9781785900297
RRP: $25.33$17.59When it was originally published in 1984, Militant was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism. Although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is to be attributed to more than hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's book must... -
Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century by J.R. Shackleton
RRP: $34.13$30.03Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we're actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say... -
A Short History of the Irish Revolution: 1912 -1927 by Richard Killeen
RRP: $23.38$16.44The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with... -
The Anti-capitalist Resistance Comic Book: From the WTO to the G20 by Gord Hill 9781551524443
RRP: $25.33$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524443Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that deserves to be dwelt on' Andrew Marr, The Times1968 saw an... -
The New Spaniards by John Hooper
RRP: $21.43$15.15A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: $21.43$15.03In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite...