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The Marx-Engels Reader by Friedrich Engels 9780393090406
$51.36This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels-those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.About the AuthorFriedrich Engels was born in 1820, in the German city... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy
RRP: $81.88$71.66This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future by Dominic Frisby
RRP: $19.48$13.86Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society? In... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: $29.23$21.35From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and... -
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
RRP: $33.13$23.95WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler,... -
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $21.43$15.15The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did - and more - in... -
Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David van Reybrouck
RRP: $21.43$15.15Democracy is in bad health. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy.Fear-mongering populists, distrust in the establishment, personality contests instead of reasoned debate: these are the results of the latest elections.In fact,... -
Moneyless Society: The Next Economic Evolution by Matthew Holten
RRP: $29.23$29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945209345Author Matthew HoltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Clear Sight BooksPublisher Clear Sight BooksWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: $23.38$16.44A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey
RRP: $21.43$15.15Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias
RRP: $37.03$26.42The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins 9780141006246
RRP: $31.18$22.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America by Charles Murray
RRP: $37.03$25.21In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. If... -
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.43$16.03Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $21.43$17.4324/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity... -
Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It by Krzysztof Pelc
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Lucid, smartly written ... A welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of liberalism' Financial Times 'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done . . . Profound and... -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $29.23$24.90Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original,... -
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder Gitta Sereny 9780712674478
RRP: $37.03$26.54The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Sereny's... -
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic
RRP: $35.00$28.47An Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Prospect Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the YearAn Omidyar Network "8 Storytellers Informing How We've been Reimagining Capitalism"... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $19.48$13.86'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is... -
Karl Marx: Selected Writings by Karl Marx 9780198782650
RRP: $109.18$93.93This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: $21.43$15.15A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo... -
The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
RRP: $39.00$28.65The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds, took the law into their own hands, and by means of arson,... -
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce 9780349143026
RRP: $21.43$5.44'A panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read' New Yorker'Read this book: in the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the... -
To Die for the People by Huey P. Newton
RRP: $25.33$16.83Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. This new release of a classic collection of his writings and speeches traces the development of Newton's personal... -
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes 9781526642073
RRP: $19.48$13.86THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American... -
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley
RRP: $39.00$29.72The 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... -
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
RRP: $29.23$21.35THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: By the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 by Maria Ressa
RRP: $39.00$28.65*BBC RADIO 4 START OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
The Ku Klux Klan: An American History by Kristofer Allerfeldt 9781803990163
RRP: $48.75$36.93For the past 150 years, the Ku Klux Klan has murdered and tortured its way through US history. By reputation it is one of the most notorious and ultra-violent terrorist groups in the world; even today the Klan occasionally rears its ugly, trademarked,... -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: $50.60$41.03China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to... -
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780753560846
RRP: $33.13$23.95** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading... -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell 9780691166452
RRP: $68.25$54.87Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best... -
Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich
RRP: $72.13$53.29Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers. In this major new biography, internationally acclaimed German historian Peter Longerich... -
Rules For Radicals by Saul David Alinsky
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721130Author Saul AlinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party by Samuel Earle 9781398518537
RRP: $21.43$13.65'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________Why do... -
Understanding Fifty Years of Bangladesh Politics: Struggles, Achievements, and Challenges by Harun- Or-Rashid 9781032727240
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence. It looks at Bangladesh politics as a unique case for study to analyze and understand the role of institutions, political parties, the election commission, election-time... -
Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
RRP: $19.48$12.71'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times 'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... -
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox 9780063210851
RRP: $62.40$36.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063210851Author Brad WilcoxFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: $29.23$21.47James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of...