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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $14.18$10.02*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty, GuardianWhat explains the spreading backlash against the global... -
Three Whys Of Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
RRP: $16.76$11.73It is my considered judgement that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and certainly no Cold War, which one dominated our lives. I will... -
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
RRP: $16.76$11.73THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz... -
It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
RRP: $28.38$21.99THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and... -
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson
RRP: $32.25$23.25Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during... -
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017' Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Exceptional' Telegraph'Electric' New York Times'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times'Dazzling' ... -
A Very Simple Secret: My parents, their mission to change the world, and me by Judi Conner 9781805141624
RRP: $16.76$11.73Judi's parents were on a mission to remake the world. These were the Cold War years of the 1950s and '60s, following a catastrophic world war and the breaking up of colonial empires. The couple had joined many others in giving up conventional careers and... -
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
RRP: $16.76$11.04'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick HornbyThe Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $21.92$16.36The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: $24.50$18.07Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography... -
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story Serhii Plokhy 9781786071767
RRP: $15.47$10.871961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage... -
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $19.34$14.13This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.Gulag is the only major history in any language to... -
Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Mulhall watches the extreme right revival from the inside - as an anti-fascist infiltrator criss-crossing the global networks of modern fascism - but he brings a deep analytical focus. By the end of it we understand one thing: the threat of a second... -
Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars by Nikos Sotirakopoulos
RRP: $19.29$18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360623Author Nikos SotirakopoulosFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm *... -
Socialism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Newman 9780198836421
RRP: $11.60$8.32What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical evolution from the French Revolution to the... -
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
$37.82One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century,... -
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine
RRP: $28.38$18.78'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books ...Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement 'Dougald Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into that abyss and rethink our securest certainties... -
Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968 by Jeff Woods 9780807129265
$30.33At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods tells a gripping story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas 9780141996974
RRP: $14.18$10.02A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York... -
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism by David Golumbia
RRP: $11.61$10.29Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of... -
Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
RRP: $12.89$10.54Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone... -
The Black Book: What if Germany had won World War II - A Chilling Glimpse into the Nazi Plans for Great Britain: What if Germany had won World War II - A Chilling Glimpse into the Nazi Plans for Great Britain by Mei Trow
RRP: $12.89$9.64In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg of the German Secret Service drew up a list of 2,694 people believed to be living in Britain, who were known enemies of the Reich. In that month, the Wehrmacht was poised across the Channel ready to hit Britain with... -
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $19.34$14.13Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and... -
The English Civil War: A Military History Peter Gaunt 9781350143517
RRP: $28.37$24.87Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July... -
Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall 9781785787515
RRP: $19.34$12.64'Mulhall watches the extreme right revival from the inside - as an anti-fascist infiltrator criss-crossing the global networks of modern fascism - but he brings a deep analytical focus. By the end of it we understand one thing: the threat of a second... -
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
RRP: $24.50$18.07The book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: $16.76$11.73'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: $16.76$9.69WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh... -
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 Frank Dikoetter 9781408886366
RRP: $21.92$15.84WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: $21.92$16.09Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the very heart of government under three prime ministers... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: $14.18$9.52The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence Bethany Allen 9781529367799
RRP: $32.25$21.13LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph'A timely... -
Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy by Thomas N. Mitchell
RRP: $18.05$15.80A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every... -
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
RRP: $14.18$10.23This is the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape. A gripping, terrifying biography, Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden uncovers a dark and secret nation.Now a major documentary film... -
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change by Aric McBay
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809287Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know Nina Schick 9781913183523
RRP: $16.76$11.09It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Remarkable' The Times'Inspiring' Caroline Lucas 'Compelling' Observer'A masterpiece' Paul MasonPresident Volodymyr Zelensky's message to the world - a rallying cry for us all to stand up, support Ukraine and fight for democracyThe words of a man. The... -
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone 9780241508749
RRP: $16.76$11.73'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times'Erudite..... -
The End Of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes 9780593332450
RRP: $34.82$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593332450Author Coleman HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Anglophobia: The Unrecognised Hatred by Harry Richardson 9780645716320
RRP: $19.25$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645716320Author Harry RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Social TechnologiesPublisher Social TechnologiesWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...