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Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group by Brixton Black Women's Group 9781804291979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.81"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?"Speak Out brings together the... -
The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781844677726
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.20In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a... -
The Red Fez: On Art and Possession in Africa by Fritz Kramer 9781786637253
Booksplease Price: £22.66Kramer sets out to show that African images of Europeans-in sculpture, masquerades and above all spirit possession-are the reverse and also the counterpart of European images of the Other as savage,... -
Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Since 1975 by Grant Evans 9780860915010
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.38The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.Book InformationISBN 9780860915010Author Grant EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint -
Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique by David McNally 9780860916062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In this book, McNally develops a critique of market socialism by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy. He ranges from Adam Smith to Malthus and concludes with an incisive... -
Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union by Catherine Hoskyns 9781859840788
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37During 1996-97, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference is reviewing the competence, institutional structure and working methods of the Union. This book seeks to make an intervention in the... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9780860916758
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.21"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural... -
Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings by Slavoj Zizek 9781844677146
Booksplease Price: £28.31The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for a monumental catastrophe that left an indelible mark on all of... -
In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey 9781859849491
Booksplease Price: £26.01Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel 9781859840771
Booksplease Price: £35.76In this widely acclaimed book, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. He argues rather that we live in an expanding historical... -
Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson 9780860917106
Booksplease Price: £31.78The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates... -
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450 - 1800 by Lucien Fevre 9781844676347
Booksplease Price: £61.35The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont 9781804298480
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the... -
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times by Stephen Frosh 9781804299197
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32How to be Real tackles one of the most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world that is so troubling and confusing? We are constantly being told that we must be 'authentic' and 'real' whilst... -
A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger 9781804298565
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to migrant laborers? Why are... -
Collected Works, Volume 4 by V I Lenin 9781839767807
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.99Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich... -
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Juliet Mitchell 9781836740049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Psychoanalysis and Feminism presents a profound and groundbreaking case for Freud's writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. As Juliet Mitchell argues, if we are truly interested in... -
The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot 9781804296189
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Why do neoliberal policies continue to be implemented and supported by electoral majorities, despite their obvious economic failures and the ever-increasing tensions they produce in society?To... -
Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing by Alva Gotby 9781804297179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing - domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to... -
Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth 9781804298947
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting... -
Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class by Tom Cutterham 9781836741459
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Empire Ablaze tells the story of James Aitken - housepainter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant - as he wandered the colonies on the eve of the American Revolution, and his dramatic mission... -
Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Oliver Gloag 9781836742708
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Olivier Gloag recalls Camus's visceral attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life, which runs through his three major novels, The Stranger, The Plague and The First Man. It examines his... -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
Booksplease Price: £14.66What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not... -
The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man's Struggle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman
Booksplease Price: £23.65In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along... -
The Beginning of the End by Angelo Quattrocchi
Booksplease Price: £14.73In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution. Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi is complemented by Tom Nairn's cool and elegant appraisal to... -
Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone by Heiner Flassbeck
Booksplease Price: £15.05On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the... -
The Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti
Booksplease Price: £21.88Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is... -
Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre
Booksplease Price: £29.02In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx's revolutionary thought for philosophy. Metaphilosophy is conceived as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a... -
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.87In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating... -
Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua by Jing Wang
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.51Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film, and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an... -
Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics by B.J.Moore- Gilbert
Booksplease Price: £21.71Much controversy has recently come to surround the status and value of postcolonial modes of cultural analysis. Postcolonial theory has been challenged on several fronts: on its interdisciplinary... -
The Idea of Communism: The Seoul Conference: Volume 1 by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Booksplease Price: £20.70In 2009 Slavoj Zizek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The... -
Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson 9780860915379
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.90In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a... -
Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England by Christopher Hill 9780860919971
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860919971Author Christopher HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Anton Jäger 9781804292488
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.38After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also...
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics by Kevin Ochieng Okoth 9781839767371
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary...
Peace Through Non-Alignment: The Case for British Withdrawal from NATO by Ben Lowe 9780860918820
Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBen Lowe is author of a book on NATO published in Spain as part of the campaign for Spanish withdrawal...
Race, Politics, and Economic Development: Community Perspectives by James Jennings 9780860915898
Booksplease Price: £18.30In April 1992, the world witnessed a renewal in South-Central Los Angeles of the urban violence that had exploded there over a quarter of a century earlier. As in the Watts rebellion of 1965, the...
NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson M. Pollock 9781844675395
Booksplease Price: £23.65Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of...
African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop by Manning Marable 9780860918844
Booksplease Price: £23.65What explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes-some calling themselves "socialist"-in contemporary African and Caribbean politics?One of America's leading black scholars assesses the...