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Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
£23.29Why 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: £14.99£10.95The 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: £24.99£16.38This 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: £16.99£15.11For 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: £23.99£19.52Nominally 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: £5.50£4.98Apologies 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... -
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 by Ralph Darlington
RRP: £19.99£15.76'Fascinating' - Raquel Varela, labour historian The Labour Revolt that swept Britain in the early 20th century was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experienced... -
'Here Are Your Gods!': Faithful Discipleship in Idolatrous Times by Christopher J. H. Wright
£8.25How should Christians be faithful disciples in the political turbulence of Trump and Brexit? Christopher J H Wright unpacks the Biblical theme of idolatry and connects it to discipleship in today's world. As Christians, we desperately need to name and... -
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel
£15.37"Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and penetrating, melding sound logic with compassion."-Jerome... -
Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler by Philipp Von Boeselager
RRP: £8.99£6.20The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story.'The last of its kind ... celebrates a long-since vanished generation ... as idealistic as they were brave' Daily Mail'A remarkable... -
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich
RRP: £16.00£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859277Author Paul AvrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 888g -
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Larry Diamond
RRP: £18.00£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560647Author Larry DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto by Slavoj Zizek 9781509536115
RRP: £9.99£6.80No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what... -
The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 by E. H. H. Green
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of... -
Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas 9781849351805
RRP: £8.00£6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351805Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 89g -
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak
£15.44'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear... -
Phantom Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 by Richard Pike
RRP: £12.99£9.09From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes the newest addition to Grub Streets popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US Navy, this twin-engined supersonic long-range... -
Militant Anti-fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa 9781849352031
RRP: £14.95£9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352031Author M. TestaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 470g -
The First European Revolution: 970-1215 by Robert I. Moore
RRP: £30.95£27.45This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.About the AuthorR. I. Moore has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1993. He previously taught at... -
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James
RRP: £23.95£20.97For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist... -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £31.00£22.36German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an... -
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies by David T. Koyzis
RRP: £25.99£19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852420Author David T. KoyzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm *... -
Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America by Alex V. Barnard
£19.19If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste-while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
RRP: £18.99£15.12A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity... -
Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers 9780465098873
RRP: £27.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin
RRP: £22.00£15.89American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with... -
Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures by Iokiñe Rodríguez 9780745344775
RRP: £24.99£19.39The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic... -
Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean
RRP: £26.99£18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199054Author John W. DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Selected Writings on Marxism by Stuart Hall
£23.32Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the questions central to his... -
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born? by Colin Barker
RRP: £19.99£13.96This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures,... -
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald 9781250307774
RRP: £19.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250307774Author Heather Mac DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)... -
Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel by Ben White 9780745337616
RRP: £12.99£8.60After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet... -
The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s by James Harris 9780198797869
£31.82Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: £27.95£22.55A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
£29.96In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a... -
Marx by Terrell Carver 9781509518180
RRP: £16.99£15.22Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of... -
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch
RRP: £14.99£9.88A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.Now with 50% more socialism!Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction to the radical traditions of protest and politics that stretch... -
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman
RRP: £20.99£16.38PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER "I can see this book helping estranged parties who are equally invested in bridging a gap-it could be assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner." -New York Times... -
American Extremist: The Psychology of Political Extremism (Imperium Press) by Josh Neal 9780648859369
RRP: £29.95£21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648859369Author Josh NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 23mm