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The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 by Gary Kates
RRP: €17.84€16.16Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the... -
Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism by Sarah Lyons
RRP: €15.46€11.54A fiery, intersectional guide for activists and witches alike, Revolutionary Witchcraft is an empowered introduction to the history and practice of politically-motivated magic. From the politically charged origins of the word "witch" to the present-day... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: €21.41€15.41The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher
€36.09On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to... -
Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age by Greg Berman 9780197637043
RRP: €29.14€24.73A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are... -
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Kojin Karatani
€23.79Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and... -
The Modern Crisis by Murray Bookchin
RRP: €15.47€10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354462Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann
RRP: €24.99€17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375311Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul M. Sweezy
RRP: €15.41€13.59Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become the classic analytical study of Marxist economics. Written by an economist who was a master of modern academic theory as well as Marxist literature, it has been recognized as the ideal textbook in... -
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape by Dr Stejarel Olaru
RRP: €29.75€22.47Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the... -
The Revolution Of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
RRP: €22.60€15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866780Author Raoul VaneigemFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 399g -
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo by Kenan Malik
RRP: €15.46€10.19Almost 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... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews 9781786992789
RRP: €35.70€26.70'Lucid, fluent and compelling' - Observer 'We need writers like Andrews ... These are truths we need to be hearing' - New Statesman Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and... -
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Hélène Landemore
RRP: €49.98€39.32"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."-Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in... -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781838606381
RRP: €35.70€26.73"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a... -
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma
RRP: €11.89€7.76'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the... -
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
RRP: €13.08€9.25An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern... -
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr 9780349701318
RRP: €22.60€15.65LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone'A riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East... -
Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes by Ben Lewis
RRP: €13.08€8.81The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply?A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.Communist jokes are the strangest,... -
The Thrid Way: The Nazi International, European Union, and Corporate Fascism by Joseph P. Farrell 9781939149480
RRP: €26.18€14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939149480Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
RRP: €18.98€15.59A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."-Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in... -
The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master by Chris Clarke
RRP: €11.89€8.46'A splendid critique' James O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement'Richly nuanced, the most stimulating book I have read on Labour in ages' Martin Kettle, Guardian'A brilliant book ... a reading of left-wing politics that suggests a road ahead' Independent A... -
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God by Eric Nelson 9780674240940
RRP: €33.26€26.36One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing.We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after... -
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth 9780300251944
RRP: €20.22€17.39How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to... -
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
RRP: €15.46€10.82'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... -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher
RRP: €26.18€20.66How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael... -
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan Israel
€33.36The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
€29.92A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy... -
Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger's Life and Legacy by John Gurney
RRP: €29.74€19.49Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under... -
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell
RRP: €30.93€23.93The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing... -
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband
RRP: €15.46€13.10When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him - from both left and right - praised his work and character. He was lauded as "one of the best-known... -
Revolt on the Clyde: The Classic Autobiography of Red Clydeside by William Gallacher
RRP: €15.47€14.95Tanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law.This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919.Revolt on the Clyde is William Gallacher's eye witness account of these tumultuous events - and more - in an era that... -
Flying the Buccaneer: Britain's Cold War Warrior by Peter Caygill 9781844156696
RRP: €23.79€16.99Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surfaces to increase lift when landing. The rotating bomb... -
A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaures
RRP: €23.79€15.89'Tantalizing prose' - TLS Jean Jaures was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial... -
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History by Rebecca E. Karl
RRP: €26.17€22.84Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: €38.02€29.95A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
New Corporation by Joel Bakan
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899729Author Joel BakanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Marxists In The Face Of Fascism: Writings by Marxists on Fascism From the Inter-war Period by David Beetham 9781608469765
RRP: €26.17€17.47Fascism's ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s & 30s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in history. Far from inevitable, this catastrophic defeat was resisted at every turn by Marxists of varying stripes who tried,... -
Angolan War of Liberation: Colonial-Communist Clash, 1961-1974 by Al J. Venter 9781526728418
RRP: €17.84€16.97When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three... -
Listen, Liberal: or, what ever happened to the party of the people? by Thomas Frank 9781925228885
RRP: €11.89€7.97With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one...