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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are... -
The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56'I started reading this and couldn't stop. It's a remarkable piece of work, and very revealing. A stirring rendition of a people's revolution'- Noam Chomsky'The deepest and most comprehensive account... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid... -
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 9781851685554
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. 'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian... -
Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba by Keith Bolender
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.60Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban... -
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu 9781408705353 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.23In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour... -
Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth Professor Selina Todd 9781784740818
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $14.07Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made... -
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being by Richard Wilkinson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing increasing levels of mental illness and distress?... -
The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that... -
Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David van Reybrouck
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Democracy is in bad health. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy.Fear-mongering populists, distrust in the establishment, personality contests instead of reasoned debate:... -
How To Change It: Make a Difference by Joshua Virasami
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.38Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides._______________________________________________________How to Change It:... -
A Call for Revolution by The Dalai Lama
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES. This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us... -
All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It by Danny Dorling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all going to come crashing downHousing was at the heart of the... -
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre by Dana Thomas
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dana Thomas's Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre goes deep inside the workings of today's world of profit margins and market share to discover the real meaning of 'luxury'. Fashion may be fabulous,... -
Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom by Brett Scott
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is... -
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom /]Cby Grace Blakeley by Grace Blakeley 9781982180867
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982180867Author Grace BlakeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
The End of Imagination Arundhati Roy 9781608466191
Booksplease Price: $23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608466191Author Arundhati RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint -
The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy 9781405966818
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back'I try to create... -
Red Line: The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing true story of the mission to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS - only to lose control of both.'Presents... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins 9780753512456 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.51He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political... -
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie,... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.62* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that... -
Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken 9780141017808 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.55Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush... -
The Great Shame Thomas Keneally 9780749386047
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as... -
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.63'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl LevyA magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial... -
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.02In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the... -
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.05THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches... -
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War,... -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny 9780281079193
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.77Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has... -
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Booksplease Price: $16.66Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers... -
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis by Martin Wolf
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis... -
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John BergerWhy rebel?Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,... -
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the... -
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. ... -
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's... -
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.88Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history.It's time. This is our last... -
The Return of Depression Economics Paul Krugman 9781846142390
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.In...