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The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
RRP: $19.34$14.13The 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... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $14.18$10.02In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: $15.47$10.87Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our... -
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman Charles Dunst 9781399704434
RRP: $32.25$21.13' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MPThe world is currently experiencing the... -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela 9780195378535
RRP: $32.88$22.72During 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... -
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly
RRP: $28.38$23.68A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his... -
Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy by Darryl Cunningham 9781908434432
RRP: $19.34$13.73Apologies 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: $12.89$10.54The 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... -
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9781783488858
RRP: $50.31$46.53How 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... -
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones
RRP: $24.50$18.07SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read'... -
The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Jacobin
RRP: $11.60$9.55The 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... -
Revolutionary France: 1788-1880 by Malcolm Crook 9780198731870
$52.39The 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... -
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
RRP: $21.92$15.84Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In his remarkably ambitious and powerful narrative, historian Robert... -
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
RRP: $14.18$9.55LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: $19.34$12.29The 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... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: $20.63$14.98Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's... -
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard
RRP: $23.22$15.25Apologies 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: $28.37$18.78Apologies 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 -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: $16.76$11.13As 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... -
The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins by T. Ryle Dwyer
RRP: $14.18$12.58In 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... -
The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud
$17.40Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology,... -
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $49.01$43.06First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell's... -
Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward 9781629632384
RRP: $20.63$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632384Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder 9780300105865
RRP: $25.79$22.41From 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 ... -
Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left by Helena Sheehan 9781685900274
RRP: $24.50$20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900274Author Helena SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: $14.18$10.02*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as... -
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of EVA Peron by John Barnes 9780802134790
RRP: $16.76$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134790Author John BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books -
The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: $24.50$21.57Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. This volume reveals another aspect of the work of this remarkable polymath, a pioneering analysis... -
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
RRP: $14.18$10.02A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful story that is probably not yet over' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: $10.31$7.47Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Reform or Revolution and Other Writings by Rosa Luxemburg 9780486447766
RRP: $16.71$10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447766Author Edward A. ShilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Robert Hurley
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900927Author TiqqunFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 13mm -
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire by H. W. Crocker
RRP: $28.37$19.45A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire-and the intrepid empire-builders-that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of freedom and justice The British Empire-the biggest... -
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich, A. Hayek
RRP: $12.90$11.52This is a condensed edition of 'The Road to Serfdom' republished in this edition with 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' (originally published in 1949). In 'The Road to Serfdom' F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the... -
Political Liberalism by John Rawls 9780231130899
RRP: $28.38$22.91This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one... -
Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics by Jacob M. Grumbach 9780691218465
RRP: $23.21$18.55As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the... -
Towards a New Socialism by W.Paul Cockshott 9780851245454
RRP: $19.29$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245454Author W.Paul CockshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 363g -
The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir
RRP: $38.70$30.56The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
RRP: $38.70$30.56A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new... -
Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys
RRP: $16.76$11.73An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialismWhy was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century...