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Defending Rodinu: Volume 2 - Build-Up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1960-1989 by Krzysztof Dabrowski
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510278Author Krzysztof DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $25.80$18.95'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIANA thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: $12.89$12.75According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: $19.34$14.13WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin... -
Demanding the Impossible by Peter Marshall
RRP: $25.79$17.71A fascinating and comprehensive history, Demanding the Impossible is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to... -
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War by Lukasz Stanek 9780691168708
RRP: $77.40$62.31How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in... -
Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party Frank McDonough 9781408269213
RRP: $47.72$46.10Now fully revised and reformatted, Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party is an indispensible guide to the history of the Nazi party between its initial electoral breakthrough in 1930 and its victory in 1933. Arguing that the Nazis owed their success as... -
A Woman's Work by Harriet Harman
RRP: $14.18$10.02GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**Now with a new epilogue for the paperback'Compelling ... She has guts to spare ... An important story ... Role model? You bet' Tim Shipman, Sunday... -
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $16.76$11.09A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth... -
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by Kevin Passmore
RRP: $11.60$8.53What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet... -
Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai by Alexandra Kollontai 9780393009743
RRP: $27.09$21.17Alexandra Kollontai-the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR's first Minister of Social Welfare-is known today as a historic contributor to the international women's movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $14.18$10.02A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
RRP: $25.80$22.73'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: $16.76$16.45A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - social, sexual, cultural and economic - Sheila Rowbotham... -
Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power by Tom Bower 9780008299613
RRP: $16.76$10.94The Sunday Times Bestseller 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday 'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph ... -
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism by Randall L. Bytwerk 9781603440158
RRP: $25.74$16.31The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone."" Adolf Hitler, Mein KampfAs historians have long noted, public... -
Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-1991 by Willie Thompson 9780745327112
$39.13This is a history of political ideologies during the period from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, famously described by Eric Hobsbawm as 'The Age of Extremes'. By introducing the key ideologies of the twentieth-century:... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: $23.21$20.51Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Žižek 9781682194492
RRP: $16.76$11.13In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics... -
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511854Author Jason StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism...'The Cuban Revolution... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: $27.08$18.82In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974
RRP: $21.92$16.99A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the... -
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges
RRP: $20.63$16.47Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have... -
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Jisheng Yang
RRP: $19.34$14.13Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in... -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
RRP: $16.76$15.91Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles... -
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism Alexander Anievas 9780745336152
RRP: $38.69$25.54*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016* ... -
Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson 9780349118857
$16.42Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse... -
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9781453716540
RRP: $12.84$11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453716540Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 11mm -
The Proper Study Of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $32.25$23.25'He becomes everyman's guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas' New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: $24.50$18.46'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Noah Van Sciver 9781786636874
RRP: $15.47$12.51Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism... -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
$26.01After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst... -
Using Political Ideas Barbara Goodwin (University of East Anglia, Norwich) 9781118708385
RRP: $46.38$41.37Using Political Ideas is a unique blend of political philosophy, political theory and history of political thought. It combines a critique of the major ideologies of recent and contemporary society with an analysis of the ideas that form the very stuff... -
The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Forsdike, Mark 9781399082242
RRP: $24.50$17.56From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the... -
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $24.50$17.56For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire... -
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback 9781035417728
RRP: $32.25$21.65From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic... -
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, by Hal Draper 9780853457268
RRP: $14.18$11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853457268Author Hal DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: $14.18$10.02**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Lovell
RRP: $11.60$8.32Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union,...