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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,... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $25.80$20.50Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
One of Us by Hugo Young
$26.32In this acclaimed political biography, Hugo Young traces Thatcher's journey from her apprenticeship under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her unquestioning destruction of the Conservatism of the 1950s and... -
Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy by Mark Simmons 9781803995281
RRP: $16.76$12.41ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. So started his career as a 'walk-in', a freelance spy whose loyalties lay with the... -
Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire by Raffaello Pantucci 9780198857969
RRP: $34.17$24.01Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given... -
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey
RRP: $19.34$14.13The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 1: The Rise to Power 1919-1934: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895989
RRP: $22.69$20.83Volume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934. The documents in the four volumes of this series are... -
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
RRP: $16.76$11.73Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who thought of themselves as being terribly nice and progressive... -
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Well-being for all is not a dream.'In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have... -
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith
RRP: $23.21$17.31Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even... -
A People's History of Football Mickael Correia 9780745346861
RRP: $21.92$14.89'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that can change minds and even topple governments' Dave Zirin... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: $16.76$11.73'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Lowy 9781608464715
RRP: $21.92$16.89Ecosocialists believe that the prevention of an unprecedented ecological catastrophe and the preservation of a natural environment favourable to human life are incompatible with the expansive and destructive logic of the capitalist system. In... -
An Agorist Primer by Samuel Edward Konkin 9780977764976
RRP: $7.73$5.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977764976Author Samuel Edward KonkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint KoPubCoPublisher KoPubCoWeight(grams) 152g -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: $23.22$17.05One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies... -
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
RRP: $14.18$9.44We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of... -
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
RRP: $16.76$11.73North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality.The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line... -
John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside Henry Bell 9780745338385
RRP: $21.92$14.89'I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' - John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918. Feared by the government, adored by workers, celebrated by Lenin and Trotsky; the head of... -
After The Future by Franco Berardi
RRP: $15.48$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350594Author Franco BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 263g -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: $36.06$25.55A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do... -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: $38.70$28.87In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: $21.92$15.84The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett 9780691174105
RRP: $38.70$31.33A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
RRP: $23.21$14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007037Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Nations and Nationalism Ernest Gellner (Late of University of Cambridge, UK) 9781405134422
RRP: $36.06$31.28This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. As pertinent today as it was when it was... -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston 9781473661318
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesIn WTF? Robert Peston draws on his... -
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany’s Far Right by Jacob Kushner 9780008502775
RRP: $32.25$21.19'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: $30.30$21.43In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,... -
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work by Alex Locascio 9781583677353
RRP: $32.25$26.68For over a century, Karl Marx's critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises have made it imperative for us to comprehend and actualize Marx's ideas. But without a knowledge of Karl Marx's life as... -
Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth by Ian Garner
RRP: $32.25$28.42How did Vladimir Putin win Russians' support for his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, bottom-up narrative reveals the dark realities of youth fascism in Russia-and the darker future awaiting the... -
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal 9780674241657
RRP: $24.45$19.83A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about... -
Hitler's Vikings: The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS Wiking and the SS Nordland by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $19.34$14.90The Nazis' dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan 'supermen', forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Hitler, was epitomised by the Waffen-SS. Created as a supreme military elite, it grew to become Nazi Germany's 'second army', an immense force... -
On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service by Eric Thompson
$19.56During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.Eric... -
Re-enchanting The World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici 9781629635699
RRP: $24.50$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635699Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
$17.57Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $24.50$18.07A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction by Dana Villa 9780198806981
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz... -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska 9781786078926
RRP: $25.80$17.42WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism Aja Barber 9781914240096
RRP: $15.47$10.32*** 'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impacts of cosumerism, and start doing their part to help create a more sustainable world' - Layla Saad 'A...