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Prussianism and Socialism by Oswald Spengler 9788367583275
RRP: £12.99£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367583275Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Publisher Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Weight(grams)... -
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson
RRP: £18.99£12.75Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout-a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and... -
Freedom: How we lose it and how we get it back by Nathan Law
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An... -
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Tory Nation: How one party took over by Samuel Earle
RRP: £16.99£11.08'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... -
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair 9781844673247
£14.28Throughout 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... -
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian Huber
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies 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 Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out) by Tina Nguyen 9781982189693
RRP: £28.00£16.74Apologies 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... -
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.09Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how... -
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
RRP: £25.00£20.28Apologies 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)... -
Democracy When the People Are Thinking P: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation by James S. Fishkin 9780198865186
RRP: £13.49£11.87Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public... -
Anarchy and Christianity by Jacques Ellul 9781606089712
RRP: £16.00£12.32Apologies 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: £16.00£15.24The 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... -
Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel Azad Essa 9780745345017
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been... -
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll
RRP: £25.00£19.33After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so... -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 Marie Vassiltchikov 9780712665803
RRP: £18.99£13.61Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as... -
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £28.00£27.79The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance... -
The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey by Helga Grebing 9780907582311
£39.11Helga 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... -
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by Peter Collier
RRP: £12.99£9.03As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject the objectives of that revolutionary era and point out... -
Back to the Future of Socialism Peter Hain (HOUSE OF COMMONS) 9781447321668
RRP: £21.99£17.21What'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... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
£26.61The 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... -
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £9.99£7.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including... -
The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: £10.99£7.51Designed 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: £10.99£8.94Praised 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: £19.99£19.76The 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... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman 9780063078314
RRP: £14.99£9.70A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed... -
Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order by Juliano Fiori 9781787383968
RRP: £17.99£16.14For 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: £26.49£18.61The 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: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone 9780199858507
RRP: £8.99£6.61From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: £25.00£18.02As 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... -
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein
RRP: £28.99£24.28This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £9.99£7.11A 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,... -
Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett
RRP: £25.00£16.53'An excellent book' David Aaronovitch, The TimesWas the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
RRP: £20.00£14.29**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... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: £38.00£30.01A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire Katherine Connelly 9780745333229
RRP: £16.99£11.54From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: £31.95£20.80A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
RRP: £14.99£10.95The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where...