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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter 9781408886359
RRP: £16.99£12.58The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikoetter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum ... -
The The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: £11.99£9.70In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal... -
Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £10.99£7.40The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A... -
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America by Yeonmi Park
RRP: £28.99£20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668003312Author Yeonmi ParkFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: £21.99£20.27Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of... -
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier 9781684510313
RRP: £28.99£16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684510313Author Abigail ShrierFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 479gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy by Babylon Bee 9781684513727
RRP: £22.99£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513727Author Babylon BeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Salem BooksPublisher Salem BooksWeight(grams) 236g -
50 Economics Classics: Revised Edition by Tom Butler-Bowdon
RRP: £14.99£9.80Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the... -
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels 9780140447576
RRP: £7.99£5.95'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever... -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon 9781529114867
RRP: £10.99£7.12A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and... -
Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 by Clive Bloom
RRP: £14.99£11.55'Scary but enlightening' - Christopher StoneMargaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that she waged against 'the enemy within';... -
Why You Won't Get Rich: How Capitalism Broke its Contract with Hard Work by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.12From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse... -
The End of Jewish Modernity Enzo Traverso 9780745336664
RRP: £16.99£11.54Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book,... -
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: £26.49£18.61The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came... -
War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
RRP: £14.99£9.88Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events in Derry which... -
The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin) 9781509531370
RRP: £14.99£13.58The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when... -
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti 9781541600508
RRP: £25.00£18.02When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republican Party?In The Right, Matthew... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: £14.99£11.32One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: £12.99£9.02How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the... -
Citizens: How to Break Open Our World and Unleash the Power of Everyone by Jon Alexander
RRP: £20.00£14.29MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate 'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece... -
Prison notebooks: Selections Antonio Gramsci 9780853152804
RRP: £25.00£23.67This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Nobebooks" to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of "The... -
Another Fine Mess by Tim Moore 9781787290297
RRP: £10.99£8.17Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.'Alarmingly full of incident, very funny - even mildly transformative' Daily MailLacking even the most basic... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: £14.99£9.80Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.11The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.'Totally exhilarating' Philippe SandsIt began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal... -
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
RRP: £12.99£8.60In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: £14.99£10.36In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights by Mark Paul
RRP: £21.00£16.87An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights-and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans. Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen
RRP: £25.00£19.99Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
RRP: £9.99£8.17Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles
RRP: £10.99£7.38'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those we voted into government have nothing but contempt for... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris 9781529430875
RRP: £30.00£20.40The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780241324745
RRP: £35.00£25.89Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES,... -
Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed by Lizzie Dearden
RRP: £25.00£22.03An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of-because the perpetrators were caught in time. Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast... -
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies by Christian Niemietz 9780255367707
RRP: £17.50£15.74Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: £16.99£11.54This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham 9781594037832
RRP: £16.99£13.09James Burnham's 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of... -
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? by Mick Hume
RRP: £8.99£6.02Concise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the 'wrong' thing? 'I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd' Guardian In a fierce defence... -
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
£13.86This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It... -
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
RRP: £12.99£10.99Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? "Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."-President Barack Obama ... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism Amelia Horgan 9780745340913
RRP: £9.99£6.80***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old...