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A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
RRP: €19.03€13.82WINNER 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,... -
The Essence of Nihilism by Emanuele Severino
RRP: €23.80€20.12In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of... -
Zionism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Stanislawski
RRP: €10.70€7.68In 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,... -
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America by James Traub 9781541619579
RRP: €35.70€23.56A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century AmericaHubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied... -
Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays by Ernest Mandel 9780902869417
RRP: €17.85€17.08Apologies 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 -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: €13.08€9.25Politics 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... -
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier
RRP: €17.84€11.14From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters, based on the never-before-released JFK Files.From Vegas to Miami to Havana, the shocking connections between the... -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era by Mark A. Pinksy
RRP: €28.55€9.03The 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? by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509528608
RRP: €11.89€8.09Recently 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... -
The Mystical as Political by Aristotle Papanikolaou 9780268206628
RRP: €107.10€91.33Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,... -
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones
RRP: €22.60€16.67SHORTLISTED 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'... -
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
RRP: €17.84€13.95In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
RRP: €63.06€59.44This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift 9781906523305
RRP: €9.51€6.72Apologies 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... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: €26.18€20.22A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
RRP: €35.70€27.63A 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... -
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev 9780691211411
RRP: €29.75€23.30A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler,... -
The French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Peter McPhee 9780199244140
RRP: €33.90€32.28This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates... -
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley 9781399404877
RRP: €13.08€9.70The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a... -
ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern
RRP: €11.89€7.90The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open... -
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century by Jacques Attali
RRP: €15.46€13.15What 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... -
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future by Raoul Martinez
RRP: €13.08€8.71We 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... -
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi 9780231150750
RRP: €26.18€19.04This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the... -
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Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: €14.27€10.52Back 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... -
The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin
RRP: €24.93€20.13This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but... -
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511830Author Jason StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon 9781529114867
RRP: €13.08€8.47A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and... -
In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by Adolf Hitler 9781956887129
€31.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887129Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames
€37.34In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
RRP: €20.22€14.61To 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 House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
RRP: €23.80€20.40The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of... -
Marxists against Stalinism by Ernest Mandel 9780902869578
RRP: €17.85€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869578Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System by Geoff Goodchild 9781781555682
RRP: €23.80€17.50Thor: 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... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 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... -
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov
RRP: €20.22€18.24"[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review"Bogdanov's... -
Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford by David R. L. Litchfield
RRP: €11.89€8.72Emerging 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... -
Nobody Lives Here: A Jewish Childhood in the Occupied Netherlands by Lex Lesgever 9781803993225
RRP: €22.60€16.66'I was on the street and I was free - but what now?'This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of wartime Amsterdam, the only survivor of his large family. He was just 11 when the Germans invaded in May... -
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change by Marc Morano 9781621576761
RRP: €27.36€19.41*Updated to include new section on the Green New Deal!* "The climate scare ends with this book." -SEAN HANNITY "This book arms every citizen with a comprehensive dossier on just how science, economics, and politics have been distorted and corrupted in... -
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire by David Graeber 9781904859666
RRP: €17.85€12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859666Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g