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Corporate Europe: How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War David Cronin 9780745333328
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London) 9780745334110
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haiven 9780745338255
Booksplease Price: £85.95We imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives. From the chaos... -
Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships by Alfie Bown 9780745344881
Booksplease Price: £85.65We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited... -
Postmodernism and the Other: New Imperialism of Western Culture Ziauddin Sardar 9780745307497
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Postmodernism has often been presented as a new theory of liberation that promotes pluralism and gives representation to the marginalised peoples of the non-west and 'other' cultures. In this major... -
The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination Carl Boggs (National University in Los Angeles) 9780745329451
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.90Imperial nations advance their own interests by exploiting other societies. To those on the receiving end this is obvious, while inside the empire, a powerful ideological system of justification... -
Bukharin's Theory of Equilibrium: A Defence of Historical Materialism by Kenneth J. Tarbuck 9780745302928
Booksplease Price: £85.95Originally written to mark the 100th anniversary of Bukharin's birth and the 50th anniversary of his murder, this work examines the core theses of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the foremost theorists in... -
Under the Cover of Chaos: Trump and the Battle for the American Right by Lawrence Grossberg 9780745337920
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54*Winner of the Diamond Anniversary Book Award of the National Communication Association 2019* Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos... -
A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures Joshua Virasami 9780745348094
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.36What is antiracist activism? And how do we organise for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, long-time activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our... -
Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival Michael Kwet 9780745349862
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.24The world is racing toward an irreversible ecological catastrophe. Environmental science makes clear that humans must reduce total material resource use, requiring a radical redistribution of wealth... -
Socialism: Past and Future by Michael Harrington 9780745307756
Booksplease Price: £33.50Michael Harrington was a powerful voice in the American Left and the revered leader of the Democratic Socialists of America. In this book, he examines socialist theory and practice throughout history... -
The Changing Pattern of Black Politics in Britain by Kalbir Shukra 9780745314600
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.86Kalbir Shukra traces the course of black and anti-racist politics in Britain since the 1940s, offering a valuable historical perspective on black political organisation. Shukra assesses the... -
Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants by Alice Bloch 9780745332611
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Undocumented migration is a huge global phenomenon, yet little is known about the reality of life for those involved. Sans Papiers combines a contemporary account of the theoretical and policy... -
Painting the Town Red: Politics and the Arts During the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic by Bob Dent 9780745337777
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the... -
The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey: Labour under Neoliberal Authoritarianism by Cagatay Edgucan Sahin 9780745343129
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism has propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan's ambition to impose 'one-man rule' have shaken the foundations of Turkish... -
Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital by Erica Borg 9780745344539
Booksplease Price: £85.65Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in... -
Postcolonial France: Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic by Paul A. Silverstein 9780745337753
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in... -
Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market by Jeremy Seabrook 9780745313917
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city... -
Inside the Celtic Tiger Denis O'Hearn 9780745312835
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04One of the poorest states in the European Union during the 1980s, the Republic of Ireland's economy has grown rapidly in the 1990s, despite an overwhelming dependence on foreign capital. Echoing the... -
Surplus Citizens: Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis by Dimitra Kotouza 9780745337791
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the... -
Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism by John Holloway 9780745328362
Booksplease Price: £33.50How can activists combat the political paralysis that characterises the anti-dialectical Marxism of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, without reverting to a dogmatic orthodoxy? This book explores... -
Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy by Alfredo Saad-Filho 9780745336756
Booksplease Price: £86.43Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a... -
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence by Jane Holgate 9780745344034
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience,... -
Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment by George Caffentzis 9780745341514
Booksplease Price: £85.65This is the long awaited final volume in a career-defining trilogy by George Caffentzis. Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, the book breaks new ground in... -
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9780745342030
Booksplease Price: £85.65We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly and unpredictably remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence... -
Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media by Joss Hands 9780745335339
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the... -
Family Law Matters by Katherine O'Donovan 9780745305073
Booksplease Price: £33.50In this radical critique, Professor O'Donovan challenges conventional textbooks which assume that marriage is the essential feature of family life and that the patriarchal unit remains dominant. ... -
From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan 9780745340951
Booksplease Price: £85.65For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,... -
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System by Henryk Grossmann 9780745304595
Booksplease Price: £33.50Henryk Grossmann's influential work provides the key to a fuller understanding of Marx's theory of crisis.About the AuthorHenryk Grossman (1881-1950) was born in Cracow and studied law and economics... -
Tears of the Crocodile: From Rio to Reality in the Developing World by Neil Middleton 9780745307657
Booksplease Price: £33.50'A lucid, stinging critique' Environmental Politics 'A critical, radical perspective' Assoc American Geogs 'Interesting reading ... bringing reality home to the reader' Jnl Energy & DvlpmtAbout... -
Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland by Peter Shirlow 9780745326313
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.90This book provides the first detailed examination of the role played by former loyalist and republican prisoners in grass roots conflict transformation work in the Northern Ireland peace process. It... -
Balfour's Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel by David Cronin 9780745399447
Booksplease Price: £85.65This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary... -
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles: Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern Ireland by Maurice Punch 9780745331478
Booksplease Price: £33.50The period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles' (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process. But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that... -
Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society by Michael Perelman 9780745324067
Booksplease Price: £33.50Corporate power has a huge impact on the rights and privileges of individuals -- as workers, consumers, and citizens. This book explores how the myth of individualism reinforces corporate power by... -
American Half Century by Michael Klein 9780745305011
Booksplease Price: £33.50In February 1941, as the United States entered the Second World War, the press magnate Henry Luce proclaimed the birth of 'the American century', which he foresaw as a period in which free enterprise... -
Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway by Ziauddin Sardar 9780745311210
Booksplease Price: £30.54'[It] does a great service in making available a clear set of critiques of the headlong rush into a planned and administered future, while at the same time providing tools for analysis and policy... -
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice by David Mosse 9780745317984
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make... -
Children and the Communities by Paul Henderson 9780745307992
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04With the continuing debate in the UK on the 1989 Children Act, and the alternative given by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there is an urgent need to reassert children's rights to... -
Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source by David M. Berry 9780745324142
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04From downloading music and movies to accessing free software, digital media is forcing us to rethink the very idea of intellectual property. While big companies complain about lost profits, the... -
World Orders, Old and New by Noam Chomsky 9780745313207
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.19In this widely acclaimed study of global politics, Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the 'new world order'. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious piece...