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Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair 9781844673247
€16.99Throughout the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, party membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are being sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair's new book weighs the... -
50 Economics Classics: Revised Edition by Tom Butler-Bowdon
RRP: €17.84€11.66Economics 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... -
Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910392157Author Sean BonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press -
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna 9780006531265
RRP: €15.46€10.09An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African... -
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey
RRP: €17.84€13.03The 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... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: €20.22€14.61The 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... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: €13.08€9.25A 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... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €13.08€9.25A 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... -
The Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out) by Tina Nguyen 9781982189693
RRP: €33.32€19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982189693Author Tina NguyenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: €15.46€10.27As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
RRP: €29.75€24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676400Author Kohei SaitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Anarchy and Christianity by Jacques Ellul 9781606089712
RRP: €19.04€14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606089712Author Jacques EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock Publishers -
The Broken Promise of Infrastructure Dominic Davies 9781913546359
RRP: €19.04€18.14The Broken Promise of Infrastructure tackles the divisive cultural politics that have been used to deflect attention away from Britain's failing infrastructure, from Brexit through to the 'levelling up' agenda and beyond. Building on more than a decade... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: €8.32€6.10Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT... -
The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey by Helga Grebing 9780907582311
€46.54Helga GrebingSet against the background of the economic, social and political conditions in Germany from 1890 to the end of the Nazi era, this classic study traces the emergence and development of the German labour movement.Book InformationISBN... -
Tory Nation: How one party took over by Samuel Earle
RRP: €20.22€13.19'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... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
€31.67The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less reticent... -
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
RRP: €17.84€14.22Adolf Eichmann was responsible for transporting over two million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until his sensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in 1960 and his... -
The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: €13.08€8.94Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition contains the most salient extracts from... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: €13.08€10.64Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ... -
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: from J.P. Morgan to Blackrock by Scott Aquanno 9781839765261
RRP: €23.79€23.51The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan's vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. Contrary to what is taken for common... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: €26.17€24.12Volume 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... -
Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order by Juliano Fiori 9781787383968
RRP: €21.41€19.21For many liberal commentators at the turn of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western reason and capitalist democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions associated with the post-Cold War... -
November 1918: The German Revolution Robert Gerwarth (Professor of Modern History at UCD and Director of the Centre for War Studies) 9780199546473
RRP: €31.52€22.15The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come... -
Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €13.08€9.25The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they... -
New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition by Terence Renaud
RRP: €33.32€25.94A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts," from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics... -
Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat by Victor Figueroa Clark
RRP: €29.74€19.49This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973. Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: €11.89€8.46A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
RRP: €23.80€17.01**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksOur life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of... -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela 9780195378535
RRP: €30.33€20.96During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his... -
Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy by Darryl Cunningham 9781908434432
RRP: €17.84€12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434432Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad EditionsDimensions(mm) 228mm * 160mm * 20mm -
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
RRP: €11.89€9.72The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist... -
The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships by Vineeta Yadav
RRP: €34.50€29.06The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships studies how institutional and social factors influence corruption in dictatorships. Dictatorships are often synonymous with high levels of corruption, yet Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee argue otherwise. The... -
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9781783488858
RRP: €46.41€42.92How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a... -
The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Jacobin
RRP: €10.70€8.81The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: €17.84€11.66Mistrusted 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... -
Revolutionary France: 1788-1880 by Malcolm Crook 9780198731870
€48.33The French Revolution of 1789 was followed by a century of upheaval, rebellion, and change. Napoleonic dictatorship, monarchical restoration, Second Republic, and Second Empire all rapidly succeeded one another, and it was not until the advent of the... -
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard
RRP: €21.42€13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110002Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm... -
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisee Reclus by Elisee Reclus
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864298Author John P. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 338g -
The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins by T. Ryle Dwyer
RRP: €13.08€11.60In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly and drive the Irish people into the arms of the...