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Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire by Brian Martin 9780742540866
Booksplease Price: £44.76Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating... -
Demolition Agenda: The Dismantling American Government . . . And How We Can Stop It by Thomas O. McGarity 9781620979860
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Now in paperback, a comprehensive account of the first Trump administration's efforts to destroy our government institutions, and what we can do before it's too late"Demolition Agenda presents... -
The Art of Complaining: Canada's Consumer Action Guide by Phil Edmonston 9781459719415
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.07Defective cars, contaminated food, insurance company abuses, botched vacations, or government errors and indifference. The Art of Complaining evens the playing field. Most people hate to complain and... -
Learning Responsive Web Design by Clarissa Peterson 9781449362942
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.20Deliver an optimal user experience to all devices - including tablets, smartphones, feature phones, laptops, and large screens - by learning the basics of responsive web design. In this hands-on... -
No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality by Paul Adler 9780812253177
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.50Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader, organizations of lawyers and experts worked... -
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke 9781608466290
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.27This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne and the... -
What Workers Want by Richard B. Freeman 9780801473258
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Praise for the first edition:"This very valuable book reports the results of a large-scale and complex survey aimed at understanding the preferences of employees regarding workplace governance... -
Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad by Alan Curtis 9780742542174
Booksplease Price: £39.10Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community? This book answers these questions in a preposterous... -
Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times Charles Derber 9781138648203
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14When the Women's March gathered millions just one day after Trump's inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump's election, bringing... -
Demolition Agenda: How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It Thomas O. McGarity 9781620976395
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.79The first comprehensive account of the Trump administration's efforts to destroy our government institutions, by the man Ralph Nader says "writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about... -
Investigative Reporting: From Premise to Publication Marcy Burstiner 9781138572164
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Investigative Reporting provides a step-by-step approach for tackling any investigative story, teaching reporters the skills they need to overcome common obstacles during investigative work... -
How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan, with a New Introduction by Ken Reed 9781538176979
Booksplease Price: £19.96Many sports fans are conflicted-they may love the games, the players, and their communities, but they are often alarmed by issues such as academic corruption, athlete health, and the overarching... -
Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on TheStreet Douglas A. Kass 9781118892985
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.56Build a bulletproof portfolio with advice from a top market expert Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on TheStreet (TM) provides investment advice and guidance from one of the most renowned traders in... -
Two Parties--or More?: The American Party System, Second Edition by John F. Bibby
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the world democracies support multiparty systems? Should... -
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry by Stan Luger 9780521023610
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first... -
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People by Jeremy Gantz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four... -
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry by Stan Luger 9780521631730
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.57This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first... -
Access to Justice by Deborah L. Rhode 9780195143478
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £62.04"Equal Justice Under Law." This promise appears on courthouse doors across the land. But it by no means describes what goes on inside them. Equal access to justice is one of America's most proudly... -
United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) by Mickey Huff 9780872867673
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction."Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we... -
A Mathematical Look at Politics Jr. Robinson 9781032919461
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.59What Ralph Nader's spoiler role in the 2000 presidential election tells us about the American political system. Why Montana went to court to switch the 1990 apportionment to Dean's method. How the US... -
Privacy In The Modern Age: The Search for Solutions by Marc Rotenberg 9781620971079
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats and more. The contributors to this Privacy... -
No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress, and Provokes War Linda Pentz Gunter 9780745352107
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis-but that hasn't stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for... -
A Mathematical Look at Politics E. Arthur Robinson, Jr. 9781439819838
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34What Ralph Nader's spoiler role in the 2000 presidential election tells us about the American political system. Why Montana went to court to switch the 1990 apportionment to Dean's method. How the US... -
Mohandas K. Gandhi: A Biography by Patricia Cronin Marcello 9780313333941
Booksplease Price: £31.87Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma (great soul) Gandhi, is a revered figure worldwide for his nonviolent action to free India from British rule. His iconic status endures in the United States,... -
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History by David Armitage
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.46In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration... -
Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster by Davitt McAteer 9781938228896
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.58New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. ReichMonongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial... -
Dark Horse: A Political Thriller by Ralph Reed 9781439182413
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.69At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, California governor Robert Long got robbed. It's a tight race between Long and Senator Salmon Stanley for the Democratic nomination for president... -
Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World Charles Derber 9781612050669
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Renowned American sociologist Charles Derber imagines a surprise encounter with Karl Marx's ghost in London's Highgate cemetery, leading to a night-long conversation about the problems plaguing the... -
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy 9780822344308 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £13.84Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda... -
Surplus American: How the 1% is Making Us Redundant by Charles Derber
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant. Exploring the ongoing crisis of 'surplus people' today, authors Charles Derber... -
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda... -
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud.' Washington Post'Tom... -
The Four Freedoms Under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger from Our National Security State by Marcus Raskin 9781597972178
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68FDR's Four Freedoms-Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear-were presented to the American people in his 1941 State of the Union address, and they became the... -
Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five by Miko Peled 9781682570852
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the "Holy Land Foundation Five" ended in a hung jury. The second,... -
Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders 9781788737692
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots... -
Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity by Thomas O. McGarity 9780674545434
RRP: £50.95Booksplease Price: £32.18The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals. A big question now is how to prevent backsliding... -
Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves by Stephen J. Farnsworth 9781594512674
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often at the expense of public information and awareness... -
Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death by Michael R. Lemov 9781611477474
Booksplease Price: £51.70Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the "equivalent of war" by the Supreme... -
Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves by Stephen J. Farnsworth 9781594512681
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often at the expense of public information and awareness... -
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke 9781642591125
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £33.60The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression,...