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Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre by Maximilien Robespierre
£16.82Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state,... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
RRP: £16.99£12.28To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only... -
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg 9780415304450
RRP: £12.99£12.94Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was... -
Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner 9781784291235
RRP: £12.99£8.60Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as... -
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have... -
Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life Scott Branson 9780745344928
RRP: £14.99£9.80You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From relationships to school, work, art, even the way you organise your time, anarchism can help you find fulfilment, empathy and liberation in the everyday. ... -
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen 9780190058821
RRP: £15.99£11.61Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of the world. In simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies elites, minorities and... -
Chartism: A New History by Dr. Malcolm Chase
RRP: £19.99£14.92Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the... -
Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: £16.99£15.07Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of... -
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam 9780195150896
RRP: £81.00£73.68The recent, highly sucessful publication of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam, has attracted new attention to the subject of civil society. While markets and democracies arise in formerly Communist states, the... -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: £15.99£11.61There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life... -
If They Come in the Morning by Angela Davis
RRP: £10.99£8.94The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: £16.99£14.05Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it Matthew d'Ancona 9781529303995
RRP: £20.00£13.35'D'Ancona makes his case well... The book is well written and thoughtful' -- The Times'A heartfelt attempt to renew liberal ideals for the coming decades... How sorely our public debate needs others to express themselves similarly.' -- Henry Mance,... -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer 9781787383272
RRP: £14.99£14.04For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world's stage? In Bibi,... -
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Peter Coates 9781789147704
RRP: £16.99£12.28Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen wild... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: £16.99£12.68A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in... -
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 by Nick Land 9780955308789
RRP: £27.00£18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955308789Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint UrbanomicPublisher Urbanomic Media LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 32mm -
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
RRP: £15.99£11.61WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian,... -
Zionism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Stanislawski
RRP: £8.99£8.01In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Stanislawski presents an impartial and disinterested history of Zionist ideology from its origins to the present. Sharp and accessible, he charts the crucial moments in the ideological development of Zionism,... -
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker 9780674251755
RRP: £29.95£23.66A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity... -
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves... -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era Mark A. Pinksy 9781620975046
RRP: £23.99£7.59The U.S. financial system is a source of enormous conservative power. Yet most progressive people and organisations trust it with their money and so help fund their conservative opposition. Until progressives achieve a financial system that works for... -
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? Richard J. Bernstein 9781509528608
RRP: £9.99£6.80Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom... -
Capital: An Abridged Edition by Karl Marx
RRP: £9.99£7.11A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth... -
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy.INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS... -
No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy Richard Swift 9781906523305
RRP: £7.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523305Author Richard SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays by Ernest Mandel 9780902869417
RRP: £15.00£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869417Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford by David R. L. Litchfield
RRP: £9.99£7.55Emerging from modern history as a remarkable and much-loved family, the Mitfords have remained largely unrepentant concerning theirs and particularly Unity's enthusiastic support of Hitler, the Nazis, Oswald Mosley and British fascism. However, having... -
No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Raheem Kassam 9781621576808
RRP: £28.99£17.23No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"-where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away-can be attested to by its many victims. Now Raheem... -
The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding... -
Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Zhisui Li
RRP: £16.99£12.28For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history. In this intimate biography we... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: £9.99£6.64Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry... -
Understanding Socialism by Richard D Wolff 9780578227344
RRP: £19.77£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578227344Author Richard D WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Democracy at WorkPublisher Democracy at WorkWeight(grams) 227g -
Twilight of the Idols: An American Story by Brayden W B Olson 9780578514765
RRP: £15.95£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578514765Author Brayden W B OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Brayden OlsonPublisher Brayden OlsonWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati 9780804759649
RRP: £19.99£16.09Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £9.99£9.88In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and...