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Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel by Dominique Edde
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.96In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most... -
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Booksplease Price: £18.18The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by... -
What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.75Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city... -
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics by Nancy Fraser
Booksplease Price: £26.09Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focused primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of... -
The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers by John Sturrock
Booksplease Price: £21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.77How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation... -
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group by Brixton Black Women's Group 9781804291979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?"Speak Out brings together the... -
The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781844677726
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.00In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a... -
Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Since 1975 by Grant Evans 9780860915010
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.22The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.Book InformationISBN 9780860915010Author Grant EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique by David McNally 9780860916062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In this book, McNally develops a critique of market socialism by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy. He ranges from Adam Smith to Malthus and concludes with an incisive... -
Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union by Catherine Hoskyns 9781859840788
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.20During 1996-97, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference is reviewing the competence, institutional structure and working methods of the Union. This book seeks to make an intervention in the... -
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan 9781804293034
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9780860916758
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.21"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of... -
Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings by Slavoj Zizek 9781844677146
Booksplease Price: £28.17The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for a monumental catastrophe that left an indelible mark on all of... -
In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey 9781859849491
Booksplease Price: £36.45Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings... -
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by 9781786636249
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of its own real... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel 9781859840771
Booksplease Price: £35.76In this widely acclaimed book, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. He argues rather that we live in an expanding historical... -
Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson 9780860917106
Booksplease Price: £31.78The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates... -
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450 - 1800 by Lucien Fevre 9781844676347
Booksplease Price: £61.35The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont 9781804298480
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the... -
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times by Stephen Frosh 9781804299197
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32How to be Real tackles one of the most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world that is so troubling and confusing? We are constantly being told that we must be 'authentic' and 'real' whilst... -
A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger 9781804298565
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to migrant laborers? Why are... -
Collected Works, Volume 4 by V I Lenin 9781839767807
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.74Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich... -
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Juliet Mitchell 9781836740049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Psychoanalysis and Feminism presents a profound and groundbreaking case for Freud's writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. As Juliet Mitchell argues, if we are truly interested in... -
The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot 9781804296189
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Why do neoliberal policies continue to be implemented and supported by electoral majorities, despite their obvious economic failures and the ever-increasing tensions they produce in society?To... -
Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing by Alva Gotby 9781804297179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing - domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to... -
The Book of Saladin: A Novel by Tariq Ali 9781836743729
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and... -
The Stone Woman: A Novel by Tariq Ali 9781836743736
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Istanbul, 1899. The last great Islamic empire is in serious trouble. The family of Iskender Pasha, an Ottoman notable, has retired to its summer palace. Then a former tutor poses a question which the... -
Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth 9781804298947
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting... -
Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.92Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the... -
Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution by Pascale Casanova
Booksplease Price: £14.20In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary... -
Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis
Booksplease Price: £20.82In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies-particularly those of the United States,... -
European Nations: Explaining Their Formation by Miroslav Hroch
Booksplease Price: £25.59In the history of modern political thought, no other topic has attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation formation, and patriotism. Because of the ever-growing body of literature tackling... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: £21.10In 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... -
Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince by Evan Lyon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.77At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply... -
Critique of Taste by Galvano Della Volpe 9780860915652
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory - Critique of Taste. Della Volpe,... -
Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health by Nick Dearden 9781804291450
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60Big Pharma Puts Profits Over PeopleIn Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic... -
The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance by Peter Gowan 9781859842713
Booksplease Price: £25.54The 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...