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The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism by David Golumbia
RRP: $18.90$16.30Since 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... -
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci: With a New Preface by Perry Anderson
RRP: $25.18$16.51An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in Gramsci's thought, as revelatory today as on first publication in New Left Review in 1976. This landmark essay has been the subject of keen debate across four decades for its disentangling of the... -
Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall 9781785787515
RRP: $31.48$20.58'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... -
Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
RRP: $18.88$13.55The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted... -
Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
RRP: $20.98$17.16Since 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... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: $35.68$25.58Ken 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... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley 9781784780753
$46.81In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural... -
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow 9780593444511
RRP: $56.70$37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593444511Author Rachel MaddowFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The English Civil War: A Military History by Peter Gaunt
RRP: $46.18$40.49Sir, 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... -
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx
RRP: $35.68$25.79The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking... -
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $35.68$25.79WINNER 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... -
The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomsic
RRP: $37.78$32.13The book discusses the importance of Marx's critique of political economy in Lacan's attempt to rethink the political and philosophical legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis. By situating Marx in the broader context of Lacan's teaching it highlights the... -
The BBC: Myth of a Public Service by Dr Tom Mills
RRP: $20.98$13.94The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, from its Reithian origins to its coverage of the... -
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change by Aric McBay
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies 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. -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: $27.28$18.06WINNER 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... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
RRP: $27.28$17.98'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... -
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giuseppe Fiori 9780860915331
RRP: $44.08$37.15Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous... -
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $39.88$29.42The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire... -
The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century? by Patrik Hermansson 9781138363861
RRP: $54.58$47.52The alt-right has been the most important new far-right grouping to appear in decades. Written by researchers from the anti-racist advocacy group HOPE not hate, this book provides a thorough, ground-breaking, and accessible overview of this dangerous new... -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
RRP: $52.50$34.40LONGLISTED 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... -
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know by Nina Schick
RRP: $27.28$18.06It 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... -
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
RRP: $52.50$37.00'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent, incredibly insightful reimagining of liberalism' Owen Jones'Clear, brave, compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring ... impassioned ... full of hope' Zadie... -
Conservatism by Dr Mark Garnett
RRP: $39.88$37.61The nature of conservative ideology is and will continue to be warmly contested. In this short history, Mark Garnett contends that the disagreements have been particularly strong in the instance of British conservatism because the ideological label... -
The End of Jewish Modernity by Enzo Traverso
RRP: $35.68$24.23Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book,... -
Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Freeden 9780199670437
RRP: $18.88$13.55Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and... -
My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown
RRP: $31.48$23.00Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the... -
The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester by Isaac Rose 9781915672186
RRP: $31.48$20.58How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? As the crane capital of Europe, Manchester's transformation since the financial crisis has been profound. Capital has flooded... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $42.00$30.01'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: $27.28$19.09Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: $23.08$16.32A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo... -
Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US by Jane Mayer 9781925228847
RRP: $27.28$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States) and J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States) and... -
Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society by Mick Cooper
RRP: $31.48$25.47We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian 'populism' are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for a new approach to politics - nor such an opportunity for one. To create a world in... -
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $79.78$70.10First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell's... -
Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire by Raffaello Pantucci 9780198857969
RRP: $52.50$37.00Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given... -
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll
RRP: $52.50$35.24After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so... -
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
RRP: $6.30$5.23'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $23.08$16.32*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... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $35.68$26.63The 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... -
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith
RRP: $37.78$25.49Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even...