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Teachers, Writers, Celebrities by Regis Debray 9780860910398
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860910398Author Regis DebrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
Booksplease Price: £18.79Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the... -
Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection by Andrew Berry 9781859844786
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £26.63Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at the age of thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently on the theory of natural... -
Politics: A Selection by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781859841310
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.09This book, a selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volume Politics, presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative... -
New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés 9781839762987
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Philosophy 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... -
Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity Jodie Hare 9781804291535
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there... -
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis Peter Marcuse 9781804294949
Booksplease Price: £15.47In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. Today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making... -
Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change M.V. Ramana 9781804290002
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment. Nuclear Is Not... -
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han 9781804298428
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower,... -
State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas 9781859842744
Booksplease Price: £21.68Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of State, arguing against a general theory of state, and the identifying forms of... -
War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40 by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781859842386
Booksplease Price: £29.55During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He... -
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix 9781804298558
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.50The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and influential reconstruction of Classical Antiquity through a Marxist lens. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix explores the personality of the... -
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer 9781839768378
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms... -
Up In The Air: A History of High Rise Britain by Holly Smith 9781804297377
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Up in the Air tells the story of Britain's multi-storey council housing its beginnings to the present day. Throughout its history, high rise has been a symbol of the welfare state for better or worse... -
Berlin Childhood ca. 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9781836740148
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood... -
Pourquoi la guerre ? by Frédéric Gros 9781804296028
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804296028Author Frédéric GrosFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet by Ann Pettifor 9781804297223
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The global market in money - housed in the offshore 'shadow' banking system - holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation's taxman. Asset managers, private... -
The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots by Lisa Siraganian 9781804293447
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to... -
Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths by Alex Bollen 9781804297544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Good 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 Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell 9781836742272
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.20Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism's origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of... -
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea by Marcus Rediker 9781836741718
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Freedom Ship is a gripping history of the enslaved African Americans who stowed away on vessels that carried them to liberty. Up to 100,000 fugitives successfully fled the horrors of bondage in the... -
Washington Is Burning: Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump by Andrew Cockburn 9781836741770
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington - a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the heart of... -
Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.08Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the... -
Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution by Pascale Casanova
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.39In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary... -
Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.88In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies-particularly those of the United States,... -
European Nations: Explaining Their Formation by Miroslav Hroch
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.85In the history of modern political thought, no other topic has attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation formation, and patriotism. Because of the ever-growing body of literature tackling... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: £21.58In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a 'make do and mend' aesthetic to the growing... -
Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince by Evan Lyon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £26.97At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply... -
Critique of Taste by Galvano Della Volpe 9780860915652
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.22Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory - Critique of Taste. Della Volpe,... -
Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health by Nick Dearden 9781804291450
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60Big Pharma Puts Profits Over PeopleIn Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic... -
The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance by Peter Gowan 9781859842713
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.85The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust's, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV: Political Writings 2, On Revolution 1906-1909 Rosa Luxemburg 9781804290408
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.49This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80... -
Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation by Roman De La Campa 9781859843611
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.78In 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
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.81This 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 Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes 9781844674077
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.62In 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...