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How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
$26.01After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: $14.18$10.02**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: $16.76$11.73'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: $23.22$14.44One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies... -
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
RRP: $14.18$9.44We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: $21.92$15.84The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston 9781473661318
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesIn WTF? Robert Peston draws on his... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $24.50$18.07A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History by Domenico Losurdo 9781349706624
RRP: $32.24$28.86Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels' thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble... -
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Anton Jäger 9781804292488
RRP: $14.18$11.53After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also populist. Though in most cases these movements ran out of... -
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan 9781789546033
RRP: $19.34$17.35The Sunday Times bestseller. 'A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: $19.34$14.60One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: $16.76$11.64How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the... -
Citizens: How to Break Open Our World and Unleash the Power of Everyone by Jon Alexander
RRP: $25.80$18.43MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate 'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen
RRP: $32.25$25.79Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: $14.18$10.02Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles
RRP: $14.18$9.52'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those we voted into government have nothing but contempt for... -
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Quick Guide to Britain's Biggest Issue by Ian Dunt 9780995497856
RRP: $11.60$4.81'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit to read this book - you'll be far wiser by the end of... -
The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance by Peter Gowan 9781859842713
$30.78The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust's, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of Mephistopheles is already blowing across devastated... -
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
RRP: $12.89$9.17**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist,... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of... -
Sh*t Joe Rogan Says: An Unauthorized Collection of Quotes and Common Sense from the Man Who Talks to Everybody by Mary Wood
RRP: $14.18$9.03"The answer is not to silence me. . . . The answer is for you to have better arguments."Go the Joe Rogan way. Sh*t Joe Rogan Says is a book of motivation, inspiration, and reflections from the man who talks to everybody. Not one to back down from a... -
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 9780140390155
RRP: $9.02$6.62One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national... -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
RRP: $16.76$11.69'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.How did... -
Held in Contempt: What'S Wrong with the House of Commons? by Hannah White
RRP: $16.76$11.92Parliament, and the House of Commons in particular, is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid-19 lockdown to taking payment for lobbying, MPs undermine their credibility by acting as if the rules they... -
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker
RRP: $45.15$35.78How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is... -
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson
RRP: $24.50$16.45Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout-a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and... -
Freedom: How we lose it and how we get it back by Nathan Law
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An... -
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
RRP: $10.31$7.80From Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp and based on his study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration. Now in its fourth edition, it was originally handed out by the Albert... -
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev
RRP: $14.18$10.02*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the... -
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair 9781844673247
$18.42Throughout the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, party membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are being sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair's new book weighs the... -
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony 9781684511099
RRP: $28.38$24.26The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism-widely held since the 1960s-is seriously mistaken. The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the... -
Democracy When the People Are Thinking P: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation by James S. Fishkin 9780198865186
RRP: $17.40$15.31Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public... -
A Warning Anonymous 9781408713259
RRP: $25.80$15.03An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
RRP: $19.34$19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: $14.18$11.53Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ... -
Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition by Amartya Sen
RRP: $19.34$14.64Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way... -
Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $14.18$10.02The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they...