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On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: $35.68$26.63A 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: $56.70$37.91Apologies 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 -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases Sam Fowles 9780861542475
RRP: $35.68$25.79'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those we voted into government have nothing but contempt for... -
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
RRP: $33.58$24.38WINNER 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,... -
Extremism by J. M. Berger
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535878Author J. M. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era Mark A. Pinksy 9781620975046
RRP: $50.38$15.94The 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: $20.98$14.28Recently 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... -
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll
RRP: $52.50$40.34After 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: $39.88$28.58Marie `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... -
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein
RRP: $60.88$50.99This 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... -
No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy Richard Swift 9781906523305
RRP: $16.78$11.87Apologies 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: $31.50$30.14Apologies 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 -
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: $16.78$12.16'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... -
No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Raheem Kassam 9781621576808
RRP: $60.88$36.18No 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... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: $35.68$29.02Stalinism, 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 -... -
Get Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Planting in Public Places by Ellen Miles 9780241593349
RRP: $39.88$27.62Your guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante - transforming your neighbourhood's neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life.Guerrilla gardening is the global movement of people planting in public places. From scattering wildflower seeds... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: $20.98$13.94Previously 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: $41.52$36.60Apologies 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: $33.50$25.43Apologies 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: $41.98$33.79Winner 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... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: $79.80$63.02A 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... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $20.98$20.18In 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... -
Populism: A Very Short Introduction by Cas Mudde
RRP: $18.88$13.88Populism 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... -
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century by Jacques Attali
RRP: $27.28$21.19What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: $33.58$24.38Named 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... -
Bourgeoisie, State and Democracy: Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA by Graeme Gill 9780199544684
$110.29One of the key questions in social science is the role of the bourgeoisie in creating a democracy. An important issue in contemporary international politics is the trajectory of the current Russian political system. This book brings these questions... -
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future by Raoul Martinez
RRP: $27.28$17.98We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek 9781108822619
RRP: $41.98$34.48Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,... -
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of the Free Lunch by David Mamet
RRP: $42.00$28.01NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG... -
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War by Lukasz Stanek 9780691168708
RRP: $126.00$101.43How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $42.00$30.01CHOSEN 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 Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence 9780140062793
$37.36“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers,... -
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $31.48$23.00'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies'... -
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
RRP: $23.08$16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARDDavid Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain - a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life filled with picket lines, militant trade unions, solidarity... -
A Gramsci Reader by Antonio Gramsci 9780853158929
RRP: $46.20$43.26This selection of Gramsci's writings includes his most important political, cultural and historical work. It focuses on key concepts - such as hegemony, passive revolution, civil society, common sense - and important texts on Americanism and Fordism,... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: $25.18$19.07Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists... -
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, Second Edition by Edmund Fawcett 9780691180380
RRP: $46.20$36.46A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and... -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
$30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System by Geoff Goodchild 9781781555682
RRP: $42.00$31.58Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System examines the technical aspects of the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile system as based in the UK during the period 1958 to 1963. Thor has a unique part to play in our Cold War heritage; it was the first...