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Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn 9781804291900
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.93Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of 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: $42.90Booksplease 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',... -
The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford 9781788731645
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $54.41What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked to... -
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer 9781839768347
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.52Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms... -
Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn 9781839763960
Booksplease Price: $38.43In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to ... -
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.12Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who... -
Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years by Andrew Murray
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.63Selected as one of the 15 best political and current affairs books of 2022 by The TimesIs Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn's tenure as Labour leader and the prospects for... -
Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art Marcus Verhagen 9781839768514
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02How have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the gears of 24/7 capitalism. It looks at artists who... -
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi 9781804297094
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Born in Jerusalem, Ghada Karmi and her family were forced out of their home in 1948. They shared the fate of the thousands of Palestinians who, in the Nakba, were dispossessed and driven from land... -
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing by Jodi Dean
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete... -
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873 David G. Atwill 9781804290545
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society... -
Thinking in a Pandemic: Science and Policy by Boston Review 9781839763120
Booksplease Price: $33.52We are living in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our time.Confronting the many challenges of this moment-from the medical to the economic, the social to the political-demands all... -
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the Social Manor Jodi Dean 9781804295199
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation, and becoming something that might even be worse... -
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory by Isabell Lorey
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.27'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In... -
Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto by Reinier De Graaf 9781804299036
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.52Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including... -
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing... -
Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction by Kevin Coleman
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 9781788731157
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the... -
Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War by Volodymyr Ishchenko 9781804295540
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left's most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when... -
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China: The Paradoxes of Chinese Struggle by Lin Chun
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China is the world's fastest growing economy, and has become a global superpower once again. But this development has thrown... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.12Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the... -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
Booksplease Price: $26.48Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare... -
Imperialism and the National Question by V I Lenin 9781804292716
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the... -
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth 9781804291849
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59**Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and... -
Crisis as Form by Peter Osborne
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.94Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sides... -
The World and Us Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781804292655
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.17In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence - everything in our existence points beyond itself - and its relation to our... -
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria Andrée Blouin 9781839768712
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.20Andree Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial... -
Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro Tom Geue 9781804293775
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the... -
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in... -
Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths Alex Bollen 9781804297537
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.28When Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mother made her guilty and anxious about being a bad mother. A researcher with twenty years' experience, she went looking for answers. To... -
Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing Alva Gotby 9781804296219
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine... -
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet Brett Christophers 9781804292310
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too... -
Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy Pierre Dardot 9781786634740
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.61How do we explain the strange survival of the forcesresponsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis... -
The Cost of Living Crisis: (and how to get out of it) by Costas Lapavitsas
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.66We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages... -
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin 9781839761058
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.27Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been... -
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl 9781786632449
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the... -
Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism by Nicos Poulantzas 9781786635815
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $31.47The resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the "alt-right" in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda. For those trying to understand these forms...