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Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation by Roman De La Campa 9781859843611
Booksplease Price: £17.80In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is... -
The Consul: Vol II: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time by Ralph Rumney 9781859843956
Booksplease Price: £16.21Throughout his adventurous life, Raloh Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths every avante-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members... -
Reclaiming Reality: Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy by Prof. Roy Bhaskar 9780860919513
Booksplease Price: £21.85This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. It is designed to underlabour both... -
End of the State: A Marxist Reflection on an Idea of Rousseau's by Andrew Levine 9780860918813
Booksplease Price: £18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860918813Author Andrew LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes 9781844674077
Booksplease Price: £21.64In the dozen years since the Columbine High School shootings, school violence has fallen steadily. Yet, as Annette Fuentes visits schools across America she finds metal detectors and drug tests for... -
Cultures in Babylon: Feminism from Black Britain to African America by Hazel V Carby 9781804295717
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects,... -
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell 9781839762802
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and... -
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays by Isaac Deutscher 9781786630827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.67In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he... -
Loved Egyptian Night: The Meaning of the Arab Spring by Hugh Roberts 9781839768835
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and... -
Fragments against My Ruin: A Life Farrukh Dhondy 9781804295243
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V: Political Writings 3, On Revolution 1910–1919 Rosa Luxemburg 9781784782825
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.90This volume is the first to contain all of Luxemburg's eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German Revolutions. It also contains articles, essays and manuscripts on the European... -
Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists and Other Essays by etc. 9780860919568
Booksplease Price: £24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860919568Author etc.Format PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and... -
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert 9781804296387
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of... -
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by Dan Hancox 9781804294499
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42*A brilliant eulogy to the power and joy of the human throng* Will Davies, author of The Happiness IndustryDespite what politicians, philosophers and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd... -
Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula by Gail Day 9781804295045
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.20This acute and overarching analysis of Allan Sekula's documentary poetics illuminates his critique of neoliberal capitalism through photography, film and prose. The authors trace surprising paths... -
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham 9781836742531
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of fem-inist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust... -
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee 9781839766619
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five... -
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm 9781804299906
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of... -
The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État by Ruth First 9781804299449
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45A classic study of the role coups d'état played in postcolonial Africa, Ruth First's The Barrel of a Gun is being republished for the first time in 50 years with a critical introduction from... -
Restraining Power: The Law of Nature and the Theory of International Relations by David C. Hendrickson 9781836742463
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45For centuries, thinkers grappled with a fundamental question: how can sovereign states coexist without destroying each other? Restraining Power recovers a forgotten tradition that offered an... -
Tactics and ethics: 1919-1929 by Georg Lukacs
Booksplease Price: £26.00"Tactics and Ethics" collects Georg Lukacs' articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet... -
(Per)versions of Love and Hate by Renata Salecl
Booksplease Price: £18.08Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire... -
The Mediocracy, The: French Philosophy Since 1968 by Dominique Lecourt
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.87Generating great controversy on its publication in France last year, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter-revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the "master-thinkers" of the... -
Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.92Abbas Kiraostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film A Taste of Cherry in 1997. in this book Hamid Dabashi examines the... -
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 by Christopher Hill
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.25John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most significant works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, there was a time when almost every household in Britain was more... -
Karl Marx: An Illustrated History by Werner Blumenberg
Booksplease Price: £18.61Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks into detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes... -
Political Crumbs by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780860915126
Booksplease Price: £18.27Essays cover Eurocentrism, democracy in modern Germany, economic policies, and socialism.Book InformationISBN 9780860915126Author Hans Magnus EnzensbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count -
The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities Fintan O'Toole 9781859841327
Booksplease Price: £17.64The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between... -
The Tribe: Vol 1: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time by Jean-Michel Mension 9781859843949
Booksplease Price: £16.21Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint- Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Lettrist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of... -
Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first Century by McKenzie Wark 9781788735056
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £40.76As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live... -
Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography Ariella Aisha Azoulay 9781804292594
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls... -
Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?: In Praise of Socialism Ken Livingstone 9780860918028
Booksplease Price: £15.23Ken Livingstone is a product of the political changes that have already taken place in the Labour Party. As Leader of the Greater London Council he has provided a voice and a vision for tens of... -
The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany by Colin Mooers 9780860915072
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.74This defence of the concept of bourgeois revolution reasserts the importance of basic historical materialist precepts to an understanding of the rise of European capitalism. In a wide-ranging... -
The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris Justinien Tribillon 9781804294048
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's paintings to the cinematic violence of La Haine,... -
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State Danny Dorling 9781804295847
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further... -
Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work Craig Gent 9781839768552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by... -
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property Adam Raz 9781804295151
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45During the 1948 war, looting was a general and widespread phenomenon whereby Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian property - including homes, shops, businesses, and farms - left... -
Engaging Erik Olin Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias by Michael Burawoy 9781804294727
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45When the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished project intended to forge a connection between class... -
Politics and Letters: Interviews with "New Left Review" by Raymond Williams 9780860917359
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.94Raymond Williams has made a central contribution to the culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by members of the...