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The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
£17.13In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book: 2-vol. set by Sylvere Lotringer 9781584351245
RRP: £39.95£28.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351245Author Sylvere LotringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 1343g -
Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State by Jonathan Wolff 9780745606033
RRP: £16.99£15.22Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: £9.99£7.62Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are... -
Towards A Libertarian Socialism by G.D.H. Cole
RRP: £19.95£13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353892Author G.D.H. ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781350408630
RRP: £30.00£23.44"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 Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution: The Political Impact of Market by Lance Gore 9780415855266
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are... -
The Resistible Rise Of Benito Mussolini by Tom Behan
RRP: £8.00£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876908Author Tom BehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 162g -
Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia by John Irving
RRP: £19.95£18.30A 2019 Italian BestsellerSurgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned,... -
Marx's Capital: An Illustrated Introduction by David N. Smith 9781608462667
RRP: £12.99£9.23Karl Marx did not write Das Kapital for the bookshelves of economists and philosophers. It is economics for working people, from their viewpoint and history. It is the classic masterpiece of revolutionary working-class politics. Here, David Smith and... -
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
RRP: £30.00£29.25This study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas; that she intended her work to liberate and empower and to restore our capacity for concerted political action whilst at the same time developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, all... -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: £11.99£8.43Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the... -
Democracy At Work: Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises by Richard Wolff 9781608462476
RRP: £16.99£10.29The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people are seeking out new forms of democracy. A new historical vista is opening before us. Democracy at Work is a... -
Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur
RRP: £16.99£11.67'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never... -
Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus
£19.89In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to... -
Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross
RRP: £26.95£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095032Author Howard J. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Time, Capitalism, And Alienation: A Socio-historical Inquiry Into The Making Of Modern Time: Historical Materialism, Volume 96 by Jonathan Martineau
RRP: £25.00£16.73Martineau challenges us to see time not as an objective reality, but as something structured by power and property relations. In Time, Capitalism And Alienation, the author offers and account of the histories of social time in Europe. Approaching time as... -
The Lenin Scenario by Tariq Ali 9781804292914
RRP: £12.99£11.60Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing. From the author of The... -
My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Brendan Dougherty
RRP: £21.99£14.68Many Americans today, of all backgrounds, lack a clear sense of cultural heritage or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack. And as the national conversation about identity becomes increasingly polarized, people tend to avoid talking about their... -
FV430 Series: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Robert Griffin
RRP: £16.99£12.68During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stop-gap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the pots-war nuclear biological and... -
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E Ricks
RRP: £19.99£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062997463Author Thomas E RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 295g -
Cold War Interceptor: The RAF's F.155T/O.R. 329 Fighter Projects: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £27.50£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658030Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 959gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State by Ernest Untermann 9781500133894
RRP: £6.99£6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500133894Author Ernest UntermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st-Century Left by Jonas Ceika
RRP: £10.99£7.40Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations... -
The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" by John Rawls
£20.64This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination... -
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky 9780099135012
RRP: £14.99£10.95From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc have left the United States... -
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.40A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family... -
Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers by Simon Webb 9781526756886
RRP: £14.99£10.95Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could... -
Liberalism's Religion by Cecile Laborde
£27.41Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate). But recently this idea that religion requires... -
The Responsible Traveller: A Practical Guide to Reducing Your Environmental and Social Impact, Embracing Sustainable Tourism and Travelling the World With a Conscience by Karen Edwards
RRP: £7.99£5.60The Responsible Traveller is your ticket to sustainable and ethical travel. This pocket-sized book provides the knowledge and tools that can help you to explore the world with a lighter footprint. Whether you travel out of curiosity, to find respite,... -
Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354943Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings
£27.41A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de... -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: £19.99£13.35Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi... -
Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes
RRP: £41.99£37.28There is a long tradition in western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom... -
Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932 by William Kenefick 9780748625185
£28.69An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response of Scottish artisans to legal restrictions on... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek 9781108822619
RRP: £19.99£16.42Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,... -
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack,... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
£15.31Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the... -
Socialism by Ludwig von Mises 9780913966631
£15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966631Author Ludwig Von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 993g -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 by Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: £25.00£18.62'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to...