Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier
RRP: $23.21$19.74No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the cliches about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," detournement and derive, lies a more complex story about... -
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg 9780415304450
RRP: $16.76$16.69Rosa 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... -
Art, Wealth and Riches by William Morris
RRP: $6.45$5.50William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the banner of Morris & Co, which continue to decorate homes around the globe. As one of the leading lights of British socialism, however, he is less well known,... -
Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges 9781568586793
RRP: $20.63$14.98For decades the liberal class was a defence against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class, the press, universities, the labour movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions,have collapsed. In its absence,... -
Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution by Willow Berridge
RRP: $28.38$24.65This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing rule of President Omar al-Bashir; and of the troubled transitional civilian-led government that was installed in his place. It sets the... -
50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adam Fleming 9781529434170
RRP: $12.89$8.77In a series of 50 accessible essays, Adam Fleming introduces and explains the history, key ideas and tools of democracy developed by some of the world's greatest thinkers - spanning from the ancient Greeks to the present day.From the right to vote to the... -
The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict by Nicola Guerra 9781032566252
RRP: $47.72$41.96The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology, movements and activism of the extreme right and neo-... -
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: $23.21$15.66The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the... -
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $38.70$25.54These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in... -
The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey
RRP: $21.92$14.89Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has... -
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case by Anatol Lieven
RRP: $12.89$9.17'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world's great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other' Ivan Krastev,... -
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course by Joseph Stalin 9781490917092
RRP: $23.21$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490917092Author Joseph StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe
RRP: $25.79$17.20In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country's education system, media, and cinema. In... -
How To Raise an Antiracist: FROM THE GLOBAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $14.18$10.02A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on... -
The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz 9781476752846
RRP: $36.06$22.70A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boaz's classic book Libertarianism: A Primer, which was praised as uniting "history, philosophy, economics and law-spiced with just the right anecdotes-to bring alive a vital tradition of American... -
Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch 9781781680278
RRP: $19.34$16.65In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in... -
Dictatorship by Carl Schmitt 9780745646480
$15.52 - $20.69Now 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... -
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $15.47$10.46Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the... -
Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances by Mohamed Abdou
RRP: $25.79$20.73Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most... -
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: $25.80$23.04Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong... -
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher
RRP: $43.80$35.98Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.If socialists and Wall Street... -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: $32.25$24.74Democracy, 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 Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $32.25$4.17Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $14.18$9.18'Lively. . . This is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll . . . A book that encourages thinking, observation and discernment' New York TimesOne of our most essential political... -
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present by Utsa Patnaik
$15.57 - $20.76Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking... -
Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide by Hans-Lukas Kieser 9780691202587
RRP: $38.70$29.44The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the Young Turks' single-party regime in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably a... -
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker 9780691176734
RRP: $38.70$29.44Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the... -
A Rebels Guide To Gramsci by Chris Bambery 9781905192151
RRP: $5.16$4.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192151Author Chris BamberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 49g -
Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity by Daniel J. Mahoney 9781641770927
RRP: $16.76$11.13This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the "religion of humanity." It argues that the humanitarian... -
Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture by Stephen Harper 9781912992478
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the Arab Spring and London riots through the era of Brexit and Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Europe, this volume collects eleven years of lively, informative and entertaining essays and polemics, focusing on media treatment of major global... -
Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story by Pascal Bianchini 9780745347868
RRP: $29.66$23.14While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780199535712
RRP: $6.44$4.90The 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 Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer 9781596981041
RRP: $25.79$17.20The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran exposes how the Koran incites hatred and violence and is anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and intolerant of any other ideology. Stripping out the obsolete debate, The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran focuses... -
Growing Up: Sex in the 1960s by Peter Doggett
RRP: $14.18$10.02Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: $28.38$21.92How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount... -
Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination by Camila Bassi 9781915036780
RRP: $12.89$10.54Outcast is an exploration - and explanation - of how the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry 'antisemitism!' their true intent is to cover up the real racism... -
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223280Author Arnold KlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Libertarianism.org PressPublisher Cato Institute -
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 by Peter Arshinov 9780900384400
RRP: $12.77$11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384400Author Peter ArshinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: $16.76$11.09As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans... -
Phantom in the Cold War: RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992 by David Gledhill 9781526704085
RRP: $32.25$24.02The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defence roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over...