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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
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In 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... -
Tactics and ethics: 1919-1929 by Georg Lukacs
Booksplease Price: £25.79"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... -
(Per)versions of Love and Hate by Renata Salecl
Booksplease Price: £17.97Why, 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: £17.81Generating 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... -
Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.39Abbas 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: £18.35John 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: £18.45Focusing 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... -
Levi-Strauss by Maurice Godelier 9781784787073
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.49Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this rigorous study, Maurice Godelier traces the evolution of his thought. Focusing primarily... -
Political Crumbs by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780860915126
Booksplease Price: £18.15Essays cover Eurocentrism, democracy in modern Germany, economic policies, and socialism.Book InformationISBN 9780860915126Author Hans Magnus EnzensbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Verso... -
The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities Fintan O'Toole 9781859841327
Booksplease Price: £17.76The 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: £14.68This 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... -
Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel by Joseph Andras 9781804291719
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, the... -
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... -
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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... -
The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities by Dimitris J. Kyrtatas 9780860911630
Booksplease Price: £21.81The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities deals with a small number of topics which, in one way or another, have long attracted the attention of students of early Christianity. Above...