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The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $37.50A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.59Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein... -
Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language by Douglas A. Vakoch 9781032399591
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like... -
Philosophers Who Changed History by DK 9780241656822
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.01This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in... -
Globalization and Antiglobalization: Dynamics of Change in the New World Order by Henry Veltmeyer
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83Globalization has changed the context for, and the organizational forms of, politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalization dynamic. Investigating the dynamics of... -
Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II by Steffen Hantke 9781496818263
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science... -
Chomsky Notebook by Julie Franck 9780231144759
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.02Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar,... -
Europe's Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation David Cronin 9780745330655
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.87In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process... -
Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent Alan MacLeod 9781138366404
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing... -
Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises by Akiva Orr 9780745307671
Booksplease Price: $58.07'Orr's great clarity in forming and forwarding his ideas and ideological critique of nationalism, statehood, socialism and Zionism over four decades makes this book an important and timely... -
The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond by John Washington 9781788734721
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb... -
Rules and Dispositions in Language Use by Florian Demont-Biaggi 9781137358592
Booksplease Price: $90.25Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and... -
Rules and Dispositions in Language Use by Florian Demont-Biaggi 9781349471256
Booksplease Price: $91.14Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and... -
The Devil in Modern Philosophy by Ernest Gellner 9780415434607
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of... -
Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought by Jean-Paul Gagnon 9781137322760
Booksplease Price: $90.25Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic values. In this collection, renowned democratic... -
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.88Armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks, populate the Western media's depiction of Palestinian resistance. Synthesising data from hundreds of original sources, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh... -
More Bad News From Israel Greg Philo 9780745329789
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $60.14Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has... -
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story Ramzy Baroud 9780745328812
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.02This book is a personal account of the daily lives of the people of the frontline of the Palestine / Israel conflict, giving us an insight into the deadly, seemingly never-ending rounds of violence. ... -
Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories Mike Berry 9780745325651
Booksplease Price: $52.46This is a concise guide to the Israel-Palestine conflict. There are many different, competing histories of the conflict, however, this book collects those which are based on the most considered... -
Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System Nahla Abdo 9780745334936
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.94Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer... -
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience Alice Rothchild (Harvard Medical School) 9780745329703
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.88The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground -- and it is rarer... -
Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement by Rich Wiles 9780745332437
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $36.29The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of international law, have made Palestine the moral cause of... -
Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine by Michael Riordon 9780745330228
Booksplease Price: $51.87This book follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them. ... -
Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought by Jean-Paul Gagnon 9781349458554
Booksplease Price: $90.25Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic values. In this collection, renowned democratic... -
Israel and Settler Society Lorenzo Veracini 9780745325002
Booksplease Price: $58.27The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique, whatever the media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism, as like many... -
Hamas: A Beginner's Guide Khaled Hroub 9780745329727
Booksplease Price: $50.00What is Hamas's history; its key beliefs; and its political agenda? From its' founding, following the First Intifada, to the 2008 Israeli Gaza offensive, Khaled Hroub writes this indispensable... -
An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel Jeff Halper 9780745330716
Booksplease Price: $62.13Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a... -
The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition by Michael C. Corballis 9780691160948
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.43The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342924
Booksplease Price: $167.02***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba -... -
My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle Shafiq Al-Hout 9780745328836
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.54This is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO... -
Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University Under Occupation Gabi Baramki 9780745329314
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.80This book tells the remarkable story of Birzeit University, Palestine's oldest university in the Occupied Territories. Founded against the backdrop of occupation, it is open to all students,... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival... -
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Sara Roy 9780745322346
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $44.52Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people - especially in the US - understand the origins and consequences of the conflict... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
Booksplease Price: $52.46Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional... -
From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 by Ariella Azoulay 9780745331690
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $36.29In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the... -
The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Nur Masalha 9780745321202
Booksplease Price: $62.13The 1948 war ended in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Israeli settlers moved in to occupy their land and the Palestinian refugees found themselves expelled... -
Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine Ghada Karmi 9780745320656
Booksplease Price: $56.32Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine,... -
Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace by Mr. Rex Brynen 9780745333373
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $135.72One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel. The Nakba saw the... -
Israeli Rejectionism: A Hidden Agenda in the Middle East Peace Process Zalman Amit (Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University) 9780745330280
Booksplease Price: $56.32This book delves deep into the 'peace process' in Palestine/Israel to find out why so little progress has been made on the key issues. Zalman Amit and Daphna Levit find overwhelming evidence of... -
The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation by Shir Hever 9780745327945
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.88The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 has many important economic aspects that are often overlooked. In this highly original book, Shir Hever shows that understanding the...