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Everyday Activism: How to Change the World in Five Minutes, One Hour or a Day by Rachel England
RRP: $17.53$11.54Y O U C A N M A K E A P O S I T I V E D I F F E R E N C E This inspiring, easy-to-use guide will help kickstart any activist's journey. From supporting independent businesses and amplifying... -
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
RRP: $21.43$15.15A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all,... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
RRP: $25.33$25.21This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small... -
DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. by Noor Hindi
RRP: $25.33$16.83What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and... -
In The Time Of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry
RRP: $25.33$17.73** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in... -
The Palestine-Israel Conflict - Fourth Edition: A Basic Introduction by Gregory Harms
RRP: $37.03$29.31The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. ... -
Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression by Tithi Bhattacharya
RRP: $38.98$31.34This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child... -
Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: $31.18$22.64'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors. If it can't be published, I hope my friends will circulate it among themselves. I'll leave Vietnam tomorrow...' Thus Thich Nhat Hanh begins his 11 May 1966 journal entry... -
Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies by Joseph Soeters
RRP: $115.03$100.39This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines:... -
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $37.03$27.32'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018Gandhi lived... -
Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports, Mandates, and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom by Nick Corbishley
RRP: $25.33$16.77Imagine being physically denied access to your office, business or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a shop or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member... -
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael Knowles
RRP: $25.33$21.47A #1 national bestseller in hardcover. The Daily Wire and Verdict conservative podcast titan takes the good fight to the evil and grammatically challenged woke intelligensia who engage in political blackballing, censorship, and the twisting of words to... -
Why Free Speech Matters by Jamie Whyte
RRP: $19.50$16.95What is free speech? How is it under threat? And why should it be defended at all costs? In this succinct and insightful book, author Jamie Whyte contends that free speech brings fundamental benefits to society - it promotes the growth of knowledge and... -
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
RRP: $21.43$15.15From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its demonstrations spread across the world to cities like Cairo, Athens, Barcelona and London and gave a glimpse... -
Routledge Handbook of Terrorism and Counterterrorism by Andrew Silke
RRP: $85.78$76.91This new Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and debates on terrorism and counterterrorism, as well as providing a benchmark for future research.The attacks of 9/11 and the 'global war on terror' and its... -
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines
RRP: $39.00$34.83'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in... -
Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky
$28.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891620027Author Natan SharanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
RRP: $39.00$26.01Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties... -
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova 9780062741585
RRP: $48.73$34.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062741585Author Nadia TollokonnikovoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics, and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
RRP: $58.50$51.38For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo 9780745340661
RRP: $33.13$22.50During the summer of 2018, numerous members of the Labour Party were accused of anti-Semitic behaviour by their detractors. The controversy reached fever pitch amid claims that the Labour Party had become 'institutionally racist' under the leadership of... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky 9781804943878
RRP: $15.58$11.29The words of a man. The message of a people.Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly... -
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance by Brandon Labelle
RRP: $56.55$43.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685950Author Brandon LabelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War by Michael Hopkinson 9780717137602
$48.52It will be indispensable reading for those who wish to understand the bloody birth of independent Ireland." Michael Laffan, Irish Historical Studies "Michael Hopkinson has finally broken the taboo on research into this crucial event in Irish... -
The Quiet Before: On the unexpected origins of radical ideas by Gal Beckerman 9781529177404
RRP: $21.43$15.15'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social... -
The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
RRP: $25.33$22.35One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this "smart, clear and timely" book (The Washington Post). Still... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: $33.13$23.95'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders... -
Ancient Tyranny by Sian Lewis
RRP: $234.00$209.43Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the... -
Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters by Anthony Lester
RRP: $19.48$13.86Human Rights Equality Free Speech Privacy The Rule of Law These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult, and Anthony Lester was at the heart of the... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: $48.75$37.40Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
From Marabastad to Mogadishu: The Journey of an ANC Soldier by Hassen Ebrahim
RRP: $29.15$23.93This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa's most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen's political... -
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: $39.00$34.05Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of... -
Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda (3rd Ed.) by Philip M. Taylor 9780719067679
RRP: $38.98$34.01New edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An ideal textbook for all international courses covering media and communication studies. Considers the history of... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: $42.88$36.84Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
RRP: $33.13$28.28Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He... -
Roger Casement in Death: Or Haunting the Free State by W.J. Mc Cormack 9781900621779
RRP: $42.90$40.21Roger Casement, the retired British consular official tried for treason and executed for securing German rifles to help the 1916 Rising in Ireland, has been a focus of controversy since the 1930s, with specific reference to the so-called Black diaries... -
A Nation Unmade By War by Tom Engelhardt 9781608469017
RRP: $33.13$22.76As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of... -
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by S. Harris 9780393035155
RRP: $80.93$68.64This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... -
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by Palden Gyatso
RRP: $31.18$22.64In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life... -
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $19.48$13.16National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated...