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The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism by Seth Zuiho Segall 9781800503465
RRP: £20.95£20.06The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonationalists, and economic populists. At the same time, liberal democracies are failing at cultivating and... -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: £24.99£23.26Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: £28.00£21.36Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that... -
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means by Megan Boler
RRP: £36.99£32.93This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, with particular focus on how social media are used to exacerbate social conflicts surrounding racism,... -
The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao
RRP: £9.99£8.17Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece,... -
What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P J Proudhon 9781512302219
£7.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512302219Author P J ProudhonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
RRP: £15.99£13.71Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links... -
Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville
RRP: £20.00£14.69In what remains after more than a century the greatest study of American political life, Tocqueville describes American society and accounts for its nature and its conflicts in an historical analysis of the nation's origins among different parties of... -
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois
RRP: £59.95£47.67Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and... -
Human Nature and World Affairs: An Introduction to Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory by Edwin van de Haar 9780255368278
RRP: £15.00£13.34Where do classical liberals stand on international relations? Does this differ from their views on domestic policy? And how does this stance vary from other liberal schools of thought? Here, author Edwin van de Haar draws on the writings of major... -
British Army of the Rhine: The BAOR, 1945-1993 by Paul Chrystal 9781526728531
RRP: £14.99£10.95The nervous geopolitical tension between East and West, the Cold War, emerged before the end of the Second World War and lasted until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The British Army of the Rhine was born in 1945 out of the British Liberation... -
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth 9780745340463
RRP: £19.99£16.07'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at... -
The Fenian Rising: James Stephens and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-1867 by Michael T. Foy 9781803992624
RRP: £25.00£18.15Fenianism was the Irish separatist movement committed to winning Irish freedom through revolution. Defeated often, its tremendous resilience enabled it to rise time and again, phoenix-like, until it eventually inspired the 1916 Easter Rising, soon... -
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
RRP: £18.49£14.75Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex... -
A Military History of Scotland by Edward M. Spiers
RRP: £40.00£34.38This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate... -
From Marabastad to Mogadishu: The Journey of an ANC Soldier by Hassen Ebrahim
RRP: £14.95£12.27This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa's most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen's political... -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal 9781788732291
RRP: £18.99£13.11THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported... -
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: £20.00£17.46Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of... -
Jewish Statesmanship: Ten Studies in Leadership by Meir Y. Soloveichik 9781641773287
RRP: £21.99£14.83Ever since Plato's Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contributed notably to this genre, strikingly few have... -
Eva Braun: Life With Hitler by Heike B. Gortemaker 9780241955925
RRP: £15.99£11.61DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title'I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison' Eva Braun, 1945Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage... -
Tornado F3: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor by David Gledhill 9781781553077
RRP: £25.00£19.15The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the... -
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix by Rowan Hooper
£4.28 - £10.95If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and about the valuation of Google, Microsoft... -
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: Ernest Tate, a Memoir by Ernest Tate
RRP: £9.00£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869691Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books -
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson
RRP: £20.00£13.74How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
RRP: £15.99£10.85Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a ... -
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
RRP: £35.00£28.21A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: £21.99£18.89Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £32.00£29.13Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized -... -
Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone 9780954417772
RRP: £9.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954417772Author Ian BoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm -
Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert
RRP: £10.99£7.25Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme... -
Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot - Reappraising Peter Shore by Kevin Hickson 9781785904738
RRP: £25.00£17.86Peter Shore worked under Hugh Gaitskell, serving in successive Labour Cabinets under first Harold Wilson and subsequently James Callaghan. He wrote the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general election manifestos for the party and stood in both the 1980 and the 1983... -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour 9781911648413
RRP: £9.99£6.86From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that... -
Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 by Tom McMillan 9781493009343
RRP: £12.99£9.36The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours... -
The Demarchy Manifesto: For Better Public Policy by John Burnheim 9781845408916
£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845408916Author John BurnheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Origins of the French Revolution by Professor William Doyle
RRP: £47.99£44.97First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide to what brought about the French Revolution, and to the debates of historians about the issue. It combined a full critical account of recent controversies with a... -
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982732Author Gabriel ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £17.99£15.30Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress,... -
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People's History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £12.99£8.63American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the... -
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: £14.99£10.15The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound... -
Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military by Matthew Lohmeier 9781737067320
£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737067320Author Matthew LohmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Matthew L. LohmeierPublisher Matthew L. LohmeierWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...