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The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination by Alexandra Lewis
RRP: $60.43$44.56What does it mean to be human? The Bronte novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontes and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte each... -
Durruti In The Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz 9781904859505
RRP: $39.00$27.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859505Author Abel PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1099g -
Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $50.60$40.25In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive... -
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo by Kenan Malik
RRP: $25.33$16.69Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offence. In From Fatwa to Jihad, Kenan Malik reveals how... -
Rise and Resist: Essays on Love, Courage, Politics and Resistance from The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun 9781948016032
$33.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948016032Author Rivera SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rising Sun Media, Inc,Publisher Rising Sun Media, Inc,Weight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)... -
The Story of Che Guevara Lucia Alvarez de Toledo 9781849160407
RRP: $25.33$16.77An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen 9781849354967
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354967Author Eric LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: $44.83$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781608468553
RRP: $29.23$19.97Reflections on the legacy and impact of radical black feminists of the 1960s on today's feminist and anti-racist movements. The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to... -
Dictatorship Carl Schmitt 9780745646480
RRP: $35.08$31.28Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state... -
The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism by Seth Zuiho Segall 9781800503465
RRP: $40.85$39.12The 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... -
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s. Volume 2. Britain 1965 - 1970 by Ernest Tate
RRP: $25.35$25.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869608Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books -
The Americas in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley 9780300077261
$72.74This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence... -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
$32.70Ernesto 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... -
Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism by Marisa McGlinchey
RRP: $48.75$42.96This book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups... -
Democracy In America Alexis De Tocqueville 9781857151794
RRP: $39.00$28.65In 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... -
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen 9780745338538
RRP: $33.13$22.50'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read' Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk James Baldwin is an icon of liberation who created... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: $45.81$38.94Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: $48.73$45.36Bringing 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... -
Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997 by Colm Murphy 9781009278812
RRP: $165.75$150.15The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism overhauls the story of Labour's modernisation and provides an innovative new history. Diving into the... -
Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone 9780954417772
RRP: $19.48$16.03Apologies 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 -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: $44.83$34.98Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
Extremism by J. M. Berger
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies 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 -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal 9781788732291
$37.50THE 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... -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: $48.75$38.20Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N... -
The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker 9780241987018
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey HilsumThe Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that... -
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - And What Lies Beyond by Rupert Read 9780994282835
RRP: $27.20$19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994282835Author Rupert ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Simplicity InstitutePublisher Simplicity InstituteWeight(grams) 132g -
The Fenian Rising: James Stephens and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-1867 by Michael T. Foy 9781803992624
RRP: $48.75$36.15Fenianism 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... -
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation by James S. Fishkin 9780199604432
RRP: $49.71$48.98All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people - but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A... -
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer 9781668016015
RRP: $39.00$25.08An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United... -
From Marabastad to Mogadishu: The Journey of an ANC Soldier by Hassen Ebrahim
RRP: $29.15$24.49This 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 Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: $39.00$34.79Are 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... -
Anthropocene Or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism by Jason W. Moore 9781629631486
RRP: $40.93$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631486Author Jason W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 279g -
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
RRP: $25.33$18.19'To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.' Godwin's Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism. Written in the immediate... -
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix Rowan Hooper 9781788163453
RRP: $29.23$21.35If 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... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
$32.82Over 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 ... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780199535712
RRP: $9.73$7.41The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged... -
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois
RRP: $116.90$94.61Already 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... -
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch 9780393307955
RRP: $56.55$49.14Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: $33.13$23.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most...