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Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth by Professor Selina Todd 9781784740818
RRP: €29.75€11.79Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down... -
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
RRP: €17.84€13.03Winner of the 2010 W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for Best Political Science Book of the Year 2010The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been more... -
Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide by Rius
RRP: €10.70€7.97Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX - A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in1842. It provides a readable,... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: €26.78€25.80An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
RRP: €15.46€10.82The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality 'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: €20.22€13.73This 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... -
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... -
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
RRP: €29.75€23.63Apologies 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)... -
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly 9781784786342
€32.61In this groundbreaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost... -
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 -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: €22.60€16.67A 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... -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
€16.91From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant... -
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer
RRP: €15.41€10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176931Author Albert MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
€28.12Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar... -
The Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out) by Tina Nguyen 9781982189693
RRP: €33.32€20.15Apologies 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... -
Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici
RRP: €19.03€11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637068Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Broken Promise of Infrastructure by 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... -
State in Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband 9780850366884
RRP: €22.60€19.78Presenting a sustained and concrete challenge to the current political consensus, this reference identifies the radical alternative of adopting socialism as the key issue facing civilization and the crucial condition of making substantial progress... -
Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order by Juliano Fiori 9781787383968
RRP: €21.41€18.79For 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... -
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance by Peter Linebaugh 9781604867473
RRP: €28.55€18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604867473Author Peter LinebaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 332g -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: €13.08€8.63Praised 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 ... -
How To Feed A Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski 9780143129752
RRP: €17.84€13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129752Author Witold SzablowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Back to the Future of Socialism by Peter Hain 9781447321668
RRP: €26.17€20.48What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a... -
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... -
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
RRP: €15.46€10.82North 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... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
RRP: €15.46€13.10The 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... -
Populism: A Very Short Introduction by Cas Mudde
RRP: €12.48€8.85Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
RRP: €11.89€8.09***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... -
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... -
Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore 9780593541784
RRP: €30.93€20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593541784Author Russell D. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint SentinelPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
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... -
Ruhnama: The Book of the Soul (Annotated Version) by Andrew S Edwards 9781507782231
RRP: €11.89€10.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507782231Author Andrew S EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
November 1918: The German Revolution by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: €29.75€20.97The 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... -
A Community of Character: Towards a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by Stanley Hauerwas
RRP: €35.69€30.93Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century. Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: €17.84€11.34The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the... -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela 9780195378535
RRP: €28.55€28.32During 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... -
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian Huber
RRP: €13.08€9.25The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: €23.80€17.01CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York TimesA riveting insider... -
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder 9780300105865
RRP: €23.79€20.67From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth "[A] fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood."-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs ...