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Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe by Oliver Nachtwey
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon. Upward social mobility... -
The New Populism: Democracy Stares Into the Abyss Marco Revelli 9781788734509
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to... -
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive... -
For an Ecology of Images Peter Szendy 9781804294314
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.63When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today,... -
Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.63A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the... -
The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future Danny Dorling 9781804294345
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.28in The Next Crisis leading geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the data on what people really think about when they consider the future. In a series of global surveys, he shows that our global concerns... -
The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg by Klaus Gietinger
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.90The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. No... -
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn 9781839763687
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37Fully updated from the original edition. As the retreat from Kabul shows, America goes to war not to bring democracy, or glory, but in the pursuit of profit. In The Spoils of War, leading Washington... -
Love and Money, Sex and Death: A Memoir by McKenzie Wark 9781804292617
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation... -
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism Patrick Cockburn 9781804290743
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.34Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene, he was the... -
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture by Ed Morales
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, and the poorest but fastest-growing American group, whose political... -
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire Bishop
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.18The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades,... -
Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture by Douglas Murphy 9781781689820
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new... -
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Rigoberta Menchú 9781804296004
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross... -
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph L Reed
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but... -
History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukács 9781804295694
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukacs's early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major... -
The Social Origins of Private Life: History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Stephanie Coontz 9780860919070
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $42.63Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form,... -
Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing John Berger 9781804298473
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59Controversial first collection of writing on art from John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing.When first published in 1960 Permanent Red established John Berger as a firebrand critic who was willing to... -
In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art Gean Moreno 9781788730693
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by... -
The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor 9781788738156
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of... -
Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves... -
Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the... -
Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by David Caute
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth... -
The End of the French Intellectual: From Zola to Houllebecq by Shlomo Sand 9781786635082
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.37Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early... -
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard 9781788734837
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $41.67What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that... -
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit 9781788731348
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $36.95Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex... -
Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism Wolfgang Streeck 9781839767296
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.61The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the... -
We Want Everything: A Novel by Nanni Balestrini 9781784783693
Booksplease Price: $23.21It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "We Want Everything"... -
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.61This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism... -
Walter Benjamin: A Biography by Ingrida Ligers
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $44.99Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired a status... -
Anything but Mexican: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles's Barrios by Rodolfo F. Acuna
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $34.01Originally published in the tumult of 1996, in an era of new nativism and panic about the Latinization of America, Anything But Mexican solidified Rodolfo Acuna's place as "the W.E.B. Du Bois of... -
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives Adolph L. Reed, Jr. 9781839766275
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but... -
Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles by Rodolfo F. Acuna 9781859840313
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $37.62By the year 2000, Mexicans and other Latinos will comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles. In this new book, the author of the widely praised Occupied America describes the harsh... -
The Panthers Can't Save Us Now: Debating Black Life, Policing and Left Struggle by 9781839766305
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32In the wake of the mass protests over the police murder of George Floyd, nearly every major consumer brand proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match their... -
Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest by 9781839762499
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.52Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the... -
The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis by Andrew Feenberg
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.27For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical Theory for a generation in turmoil. His fame rested... -
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia Malise Ruthven 9781839760105
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03In recent years the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, the House of Saud, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social innovation to... -
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market Adam Hanieh 9781839763427
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $37.38This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse',...