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How to Organize Inclusive Events: A Handbook for Feminist, Accessible, and Sustainable Gatherings by Alexandra Ketchum
RRP: £5.99£4.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621066347Author Alexandra KetchumFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 140g -
Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power by Louis Hyman
RRP: £26.99£23.72Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers "buy green" for... -
Some Kids Left Behind: A Survivor's Fight for Health Care in the Wake of 9/11 Lila Nordstrom 9781948062626
RRP: £17.99£12.51For the 20th anniversary of 9/11 comes an awe-inspiring account of the schoolchildren poisoned by the toxic air left in the wake of the Twin Towers' destruction and the survivor who fought for health care for them in front of Congress and against the... -
Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua by Jennifer Leigh Disney
RRP: £28.99£24.96A pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democraciesBook InformationISBN 9781592138296Author Jennifer Leigh DisneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Temple University... -
Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea by Celeste L. Arrington
RRP: £38.00£33.27Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not... -
Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record: A Textual History of Asbestos Activism in South Africa by John Trimbur
RRP: £99.95£82.82This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused... -
Use The Power You Have Pramila Jayapal 9781620971437
RRP: £24.99£8.29Use the Power You Have is Jayapal's account of the path from sixteen-year-old Indian immigrant to grassroots activist, state senator, and now progressive powerhouse in Washington, DC. Written with passion and insight, Use the Power You Have offers a... -
Activism That Works by Avery Calhoun
RRP: £19.95£16.39The stories of eight diverse social justice movements--including the Alberta College of Social Workers, the Calgary Raging Grannies, Oxfam Canada, and the Youth Project of Halifax--are shared in this unique look into how activists determine or define... -
Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations by David Knoke
RRP: £53.99£46.87Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups. It focuses upon the ways that these organizations... -
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia's Environmentalists Mary Alice Haddad 9780262542357
RRP: £32.00£27.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542357Author Mary Alice HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Farewell to Democracy?: Lessons Past and Present by Jack Luzkow
RRP: £9.99£8.59If you think you are living in an era of post-truth, you likely are. If something sounds like magical thinking, it is. Nationalism makes no country great; it often leads to war, genocide, terror, destroyed economies and the turning of cities into rubble... -
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby
RRP: £19.99£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835939Author Felicity RubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy by Michael Levitin
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094499Author Michael LevitinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy by Mark Harvey
RRP: £54.00£50.01Why should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina Jolie when they endorse a politician or take a position on an issue? Do we listen to them? Despite their lack of public policy experience, celebrities are certainly everywhere in the media,... -
For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy and American Democracy by J.G. Matsusaka
RRP: £24.00£23.03Direct democracy continues to grow in importance throughout the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the law into their own hands, overriding their elected officials to set tax, expenditure, and social... -
Business as usual after Marikana: Corporate power and human rights by Maren Grimm
RRP: £17.95£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928232575Author Maren GrimmFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd -
Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives by Susan C. Boyd
RRP: £22.00£17.98Revealing a social justice movement that culminated through community activism in Vancouver's downtown east side, this account documents the opening of the first official safe injection site. Told from the point of view of drug users-those most affected... -
Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class and Gender in Interest Group Politics by Dara Z. Strolovitch
RRP: £80.00£77.01The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z... -
The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump Ron Fein 9781612197630
RRP: £15.99£5.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197630Author Ron FeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Commission for Racial Equality: British Bureaucracy and the Multiethnic Society Ray Honeyford 9781560003656
RRP: £135.00£117.68In the United Kingdom, as in the United States, race relations are surrounded with taboos defined by the politically correct concepts of what Ray Honeyford calls the race relations lobby. This lobby, championed by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)... -
Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change by Denise Collazo
RRP: £16.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523092505Author Denise CollazoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
RRP: £47.00£40.88Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape. So argues Benedict Kerkvliet in his analysis of Communist Party-ruled Vietnam. Speaking Out in Vietnam assesses the rise and diversity of these... -
Religious Rhetoric and American Politics: The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns by Christopher B. Chapp
RRP: £39.00£34.12From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution... -
American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terrorism' by Professor Hall Gardner
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contemporary international events, and indeed even the US presidential election, demonstrate the continuing need for debate and discourse over the direction and emphases of US foreign policy. Following the success of the original hardback publication,... -
Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance by Lucas Melgaco
RRP: £41.99£36.75Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and... -
The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform by Daryl Champion
RRP: £22.00£19.52Saudi Arabia is not normally associated with the political instability and social turmoil for which many states of the Middle East are known, but this is changing. Politically astute opposition movements that emerged after the 1991 Gulf War have... -
Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC by Zahra Babar
RRP: £25.00£22.03Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have housed... -
The Next Red Wave: How Conservatives Can Beat Leftist Aggression, RINO Betrayal & Deep State Subversion by Benjamin Sisney
£24.60Sekulow says that change isnt' happening because the deep state bureaucracy will stop at nothing to undermine the conservative agenda - even when that's the agenda chosen by the American voter. The radical left continues to ferociously force its liberal... -
We are no longer at ease: The struggle for #FeesMustFall by Wandile Ngcaweni
RRP: £15.95£13.32We Are No Longer at Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall, which began in 2015. It tells the journey of the youth... -
The George Floyd Uprising: An Anthology by Vortex Group
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639666Author Vortex GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilise by Alice Mattoni
RRP: £49.99£43.50How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential political subjects? "Media Practices and Protest Politics; How... -
Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition by Ann Southworth
RRP: £24.00£23.03A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, "Lawyers of the Right" explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups - social conservatives,... -
Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street by Todd Gitlin
RRP: £8.99£8.49Occupy Wall Street is somewhere between a moment and a movement. Moment or movement, it's the fastest growing phenomenon on the left in decades. In three weeks, Occupy traversed a distance that took three years during the movement against the Vietnam war... -
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities by Victoria Law
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863963Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 320g -
Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision by Samantha Majic
RRP: £50.00£43.41In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental medical care, counseling, and other health and social services by and for sex workers-a radical political commitment at... -
@ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture Joss Hands 9780745327006
RRP: £27.99£21.57How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing? Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have... -
Reds, Rebels and Radicals by David Bell 9781910170632 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£5.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170632Author David BellFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Reds, Rebels and Radicals by David Bell 9781910170632
RRP: £7.99£6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170632Author David BellFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters by Andrew Kreig 9780988672819
RRP: £21.95£16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988672819Author Andrew KreigFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Eagle View BooksPublisher Eagle View BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement by Amy Schrager Lang 9781780260846
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780260846Author Amy LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...