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Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee 9781839766619
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Through 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... -
No Nonsense: A History of the Dutch Neoliberal Turn by Merijn Oudenampsen 9781804294192
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08'Holland isn't a country, it's a business at best,' the French author Houellebecq wrote in his bleak 2019 novel Serotonin. Internationally, the Netherlands has a reputation as a frugal nation. Yet... -
Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Oliver Gloag 9781836742708
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Olivier 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... -
Theory of Immediate World Revolution: A Handbook for the Avant-Garde by Marcel Mariën 9781788733656
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96In 1958, Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën drafted a plan to topple capitalism on a global scale-achievable in a single year, in any place, at any time. The catch? It required three hundred... -
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois 9781839764073
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70"I have been in the world, but not of it," W.E.B. Du Bois begins this book, a continuation of the project he began in his celebrated work The Souls of Black Folk, describing the devastation of... -
What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader’s Guide by Mazzino Montinari 9781804295014
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Mazzino Montinari's classic introduction to Nietzscheis remarkable for its clarity, precision, and critical depth translated into English for the first time. The product of years of archival research... -
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal 9781804293195
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, education,... -
Red Triangle: Workers, Loyalists and Partition – A North of Ireland History by Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh 9781836741879
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Set in the tumult leading up to Irish Independence and Partition, Red Triangle tells the story of the wave of working-class militancy in 1918-19 that saw Protestant and Catholic labourers 'with... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social... -
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Booksplease Price: $24.36The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by... -
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group by Brixton Black Women's Group 9781804291979
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.51"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... -
On Screens by Joanna Walsh 9781839765391
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51As platforms constantly expect us to update and post, our status as 'artists' is often overlooked. The internet has become a world of appearances where aesthetics trumps ethics - it is more important... -
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert 9781804296387
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51In 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... -
How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy by Cédric Durand 9781804294390
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.94The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In... -
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion by Seyda Kurt 9781804298107
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois homes. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists'... -
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham 9781836742531
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51In 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... -
The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In America by Lauren O'Neill-Butler 9781804296363
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic... -
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha 9781836743507
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96From the beginning of the Zionist enterprise to find a Jewish national home, or state, in Palestine, Zionists have been confronted with what was called the "Arab problem" - the fact that the "Land of... -
A Painter of our Time by John Berger 9781804298756
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a... -
Involution: A Worker Inquiry Amid China's Youth Unemployment Wave by Gonglao Collective 9781836742951
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Involution is the first book to present a detailed account of how the people coming of age in China's post-miracle moment navigate job searches, exploitation, educational competition, and familial... -
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean 9781788735025
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade". Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi... -
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.56An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge... -
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot 9781784784164
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded,... -
What is Subjectivity? by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781784781378
Booksplease Price: $20.41In 1961 the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers such as Enzo Paci,... -
Abortion and Women's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky 9781804294833
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08This prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the... -
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell 9781839762802
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.85In 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... -
Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics by Ross Barkan 9781804299388
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804299388Author Ross BarkanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times by Stephen Frosh 9781804299197
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51How 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... -
The World and Us by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781804293621
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.48In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is the relation between transcendence and finitude in human experience: how everything in our... -
The No-nonsense Guide to International Migration by Peter Stalker 9781859843543 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.38Booksplease Price: $3.34Goods and money can move easily in free markets, but not people. Almost every day there are news reports of would-be migrants locked in cargo holds, foundering in small boats or discovered in trucks... -
Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms by Nada Elia 9781804297056
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22Nadia Elia tells the long-suppressed story of Palestinian women's organizing from 1929 to today. From Matiel Mogannam confronting British imperialism through the Arab Women's Congress, to Jean... -
Lady Insurrectionists: Women, Reform and Revolution in Victorian Britain by Judy Cox 9781836741909
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.81Lady Insurrectionists tells the story of the iconoclastic women who helped ignite Chartism, the largest democratic movement of the nineteenth century. In this ground-breaking history, Judy Cox brings... -
The Sense of Sight by John Berger 9781804298695
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.26The Sense of Sight is about our deeply political and human engagement with the visual world. Berger encourages us to question the way we see things, perceive them and ultimately judge what we see. He... -
A History of the Barricade by Eric Hazan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan's native Paris, where they were... -
The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas 9781839767845
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.18The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The Pandemic Crisis has... -
New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés 9781839762987
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which... -
Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths by Alex Bollen 9781804297544
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Good Mother myths find mothers at fault whatever they do. Alex Bollen proposes 'motherdom', a new way to live. Motherdom values and respects the different ways people raise their children, shifting... -
The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation by Frederic Gros
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08The genealogy of the idea of security from ancient Greece to the war on terrorism In The Security Principle, French philosopher Fr d ric Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of "security,"... -
Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?: In Praise of Socialism Ken Livingstone 9780860918028
Booksplease Price: $20.41Ken 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 Zone: An Alternative History of Paris Justinien Tribillon 9781804294048
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22In 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,...