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The Secret Army: The IRA by J. Bowyer Bell 9781560009016
RRP: £49.99£44.50The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a... -
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91 by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £12.99£8.60'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A... -
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy by Murray Bookchin
£20.43From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left... -
Petticoat Rebellion: The Anna Parnell Story by Patricia Groves 9781856356480
£18.25In the late nineteenth century, before women had the vote, a group of respectable ladies operated outside the law to fight for the rights of the landless poor in Ireland. These women were feared by both the British government and Irish Republicans. They... -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £25.95£20.64Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage 9780691177465
RRP: £42.00£33.44"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £10.99£7.12'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... -
Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala
RRP: £22.00£17.36The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude 9780745342122
RRP: £85.00£65.36On 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... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: £9.99£6.70Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl - Confidant of Hitler, Ally of Roosevelt by Peter Conradi
RRP: £12.99£8.63Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out he fled to Britain, where he was interned and transferred to America. There he worked... -
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
RRP: £22.00£19.52Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the postcolonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has... -
Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' by Erich Fromm
£22.01In publishing Marx's Concept of Man in 1961, Erich Fromm presented to the English-speaking world for the first time Karl Marx's then recently discovered Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Including the Manuscripts and many other philosophical... -
The Third Reich: The Essential Readings by Christian Leitz 9780631207009
RRP: £34.95£30.83This book presents a unique collection of some of the most influential recent writing on vital aspects of Nazi Germany.About the AuthorChristian Leitz is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of... -
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen 9780195026979
£15.60This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker 9780241987018
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey HilsumThe Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that... -
Untitled Memoir by To Be Confirmed Threshold
RRP: £20.00£14.69Among the Trump era's savviest insiders, one name stands especially tall: Kellyanne. As a highly respected pollster for corporate and Republican clients and a frequent television talk show guest, Kellyanne Conway had already established herself as one of... -
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization by Eviane Leidig 9780231210171
RRP: £22.00£17.36On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant women propagate the "pure" white race and post behind-the-scenes selfies at antivaccination rallies. These... -
My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Brendan Dougherty
RRP: £21.99£14.56Many 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... -
Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: £17.99£12.95A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow... -
Anarchafeminism by Chiara Bottici
RRP: £18.99£16.78How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to... -
Conspiracy Theories: A Primer by Joseph E. Uscinski 9781538173251
RRP: £25.00£21.79The second edition of this popular text, updated throughout and now including Covid-19 and the 2020 presidential election and aftermath, introduces students to the research into conspiracy theories and the people who propagate and believe them. In doing... -
Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics in the English Defence League by Hilary Pilkington 9781784992590
RRP: £19.99£13.45Loud and proud is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League (EDL). Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right, the author draws on interviews,... -
Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity by Melanie Phillips
RRP: £11.99£9.16Once the darling of the Left, British journalist Melanie Phillips was "mugged by reality" to become a controversial champion of national and cultural identity. Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that... -
The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine 9780865971271
RRP: £29.95£26.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971271Author Hippolyte TaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 1600Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2940g -
Chartist Revolution by Rob Sewell 9781913026189
£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026189Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine by Lucien Goldmann
£32.03This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world... -
Banal Nationalism by Prof. Michael Billig
RRP: £51.00£41.34Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday,... -
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
RRP: £15.99£11.61Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects... -
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso 9780231179430
RRP: £22.00£17.36The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
How to Start Your Own Secret Society by Nick Harding 9781904048848
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World by Alexandre A. Bennigsen
RRP: £30.00£29.25In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine-as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev-was the concept of "proletarian... -
Dialectics of Nature by Frederick Engels 9781900007450
RRP: £17.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900007450Author Frederick EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International's Executive Committee, 1922-1923 by Mike Taber
RRP: £60.00£40.86This volume contains the proceedings and resolutions from three expanded meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1922-1923, while Lenin was still alive. At these 'mini-congresses', Communist leaders from... -
Tackling Terrorism in Britain: Threats, Responses, and Challenges Twenty Years After 9/11 by Steven Greer
RRP: £39.99£35.06In September 2001, the world witnessed the horrific events of 9/11. A great deal has happened on the counterterrorist front in the 20 years since. While the terrorist threat has greatly diminished in Northern Ireland, the events of 9/11 and their... -
The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World by George Packer 9780060532499
RRP: £13.95£10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060532499Author George PackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
The Battle for Laos: Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955-1975 by Stephen Emerson 9781526757043
RRP: £14.99£10.95By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country...