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The Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
RRP: €26.18€21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679821Author Ruy Mauro MariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition by William Davies 9781526403520
RRP: €29.74€24.12Brilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." -Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here" "In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of... -
What About the Workers?: The Conservative Party and the Organised Working Class in British Politics by Andrew Taylor
RRP: €101.15€89.31The relationship between the Conservative Party and the organised working class is fundamental to the making of modern British politics. Industrialisation and urbanisation saw the emergence of democracy and class politics, symbolised, by the development... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen
€37.82Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan 9780306830921
RRP: €29.75€19.49A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan.Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that... -
The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift
RRP: €13.08€9.25'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane... -
The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics by Eleonora Gea Piccardi 9781529215663
RRP: €32.12€24.80The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives... -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
€16.68From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant... -
Britain's Cold War Bombers by Tim McLelland 9781781555347
RRP: €22.60€16.67Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation and development of the jet bomber, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant and Vulcan) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. Each... -
State Capitalism And World Revolution by C. L. R. James 9781604860924
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860924Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 165g -
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393356977
€9.17World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche-and psychoses-of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude
RRP: €20.22€13.73On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: €16.65€13.34Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how democracy has changed our politics, economies, and social relations. Prescient in laying out the... -
The Nazis' Flight from Justice: How Hitler's Followers Attempted to Vanish Without Trace by Richard Dargie 9781789509861
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509861Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead by David Bollier
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking was born of a simple realization: The world we have inherited is no longer working. The future of the planet and civilization as we know it are threatened, and the cries heard during the pandemic and Black Lives... -
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter 9781400054213
RRP: €20.23€14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400054213Author Ann CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: €22.60€16.20Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass... -
British Conservative Leaders by Toby James 9781849549219
RRP: €29.75€21.71As the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood... -
Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici
RRP: €19.03€11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637068Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Letters From Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
RRP: €23.79€16.99Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiIn these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land... -
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from Our Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks 9780062883759
RRP: €34.50€20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883759Author Arthur C. BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Populism: Before and After the Pandemic by Michael Burleigh
RRP: €13.08€11.59We are said to be living in an age of anger, and national populist movements are often identified as its political manifestation. In Populism Michael Burleigh explores this new global era, drawing on his Engelsberg Lectures. The first chapter explores... -
How To Feed A Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski 9780143129752
RRP: €17.84€13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129752Author Witold SzablowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Helene Landemore 9780691212395
RRP: €23.80€18.91"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... -
The Will of the People: A Modern Myth by Albert Weale
RRP: €11.89€10.65Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge elected representatives. Politicians, content to invoke the will of the people, fail in their duty to make responsible and... -
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Camila Vergara
RRP: €26.18€20.66A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay... -
Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary by Harry Taylor
RRP: €29.75€19.49Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by... -
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield: Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier by Christopher Budgen 9781526771759
RRP: €29.75€21.44In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years... -
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp
RRP: €23.79€15.89A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: €45.16€43.28A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9780853152170
RRP: €16.66€16.02This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students.Book InformationISBN 9780853152170Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion by Naomi Braine 9781804292068
RRP: €17.84€14.93Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, information, and support to people seeking to end unwanted... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: €8.32€6.10Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT... -
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: €15.46€10.82In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the fourth which is happening nowIn most of the states of the West,... -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: €35.70€27.72Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early... -
Centurion: Armoured Hero of Post-War Tank Battles by Jackson, Robert 9781526741349
RRP: €17.84€13.03The fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to out-gun and out-perform the latest German tanks, such as the formidable Panzer V Panther. It was one of the most successful tanks ever... -
Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat by Victor Figueroa Clark
RRP: €29.74€19.49This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973. Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through... -
The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 by Eric Lee
RRP: €20.22€17.98For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet
RRP: €28.55€23.23Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Marxism and the National Question by Joseph Stalin 9781507869390
RRP: €6.55€5.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507869390Author Joseph StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...