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The Mythology in Our Language - Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780990505068
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.30In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental thinkers... -
The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy by Marianne Maeckelbergh 9780745329253
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. This book argues that the most promising... -
Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization by Max Haiven
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.79We imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives. From the chaos... -
The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital by Massimo de Angelis 9780745320359
Booksplease Price: £33.50Francis Fukuyama may declare the 'end of history', and neoliberal capital embraces this belief. However, the diverse struggles for commons and dignity around the planet reveal a different reality:... -
Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Credit, Money, and Social Obligation by John Weisweiler 9780197647172
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £80.49In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean,... -
Practical Strategies for Greatness in Nursing: The Nightingale Effect Matthew Wynn 9781041086123
Booksplease Price: £60.08Drawing on the writings, moral vision, and enduring influence of Florence Nightingale, this book explores timeless principles that are still relevant to nursing today. Fusing historical insight with... -
The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labour After the Avant-Garde by Stevphen Shukaitis 9781783481736
Booksplease Price: £51.20How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art, aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic spaces of... -
Debt: The First 5000 Years by Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912302239
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central... -
Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts Max Haiven (Lakehead University, Canada) 9780745340562
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its... -
The Political Thought of Abdullah OEcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence... -
Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts by Max Haiven 9780745340555
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its... -
Austerity vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery by Robert Skidelsky 9783319504384
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for... -
The Political Thought of Abdullah OEcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan 9780745399775
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.05These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence... -
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee 9780008589172
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as if... -
Stone Age Economics Marshall Sahlins 9780202010991
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six... -
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee 9780008589134
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.66'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as if... -
The Autonomous Life?: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Authority in the Squatters Movement in Amsterdam Nazima Kadir 9781784994112
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she... -
The Autonomous Life?: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Authority in the Squatters Movement in Amsterdam by Nazima Kadir
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.61The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she... -
Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar by Jennifer Jackson
RRP: £94.95Booksplease Price: £81.31Political Oratory and Cartooning An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar "Insightful, detailed, and substantial, this book has much to say to students of language and followers of... -
Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
Booksplease Price: £17.59After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main... -
Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism Roy Bhaskar 9780415583794
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Since the 1970s, critical realism has grown to address a range of subjects, including economics, philosophy, science, and religion. It has become a complex and mature philosophy. Enlightened Common... -
Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World by Alf Hornborg (Lund University, Sweden.) 9781032702179
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new phenomenon in the evolution of life that has... -
Anarchism: An Art of Living Without Law by Elena Loizidou 9781032326092
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The term anarchism derives from the Greek word meaning 'without ruler or leader, and without law'. Although the roots of the word can be traced back to Ancient Greece, anarchism as a... -
Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives Wesley Longhofer 9781032341118
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £71.14This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that "allow us to go farther into theory and to... -
Against Money J. W. Mason 9780226842530
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.10A powerful deconstruction of humanity's most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card... -
Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism Frank Adloff 9780815359258
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss's essay "The Gift" (1925) can be seen as a classic of a pragmatist,... -
The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labour After the Avant-Garde by Stevphen Shukaitis 9781783481729
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £66.83How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art, aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic spaces of... -
Bank Job by Hilary Powell 9781603589697
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The art avengers...took on toxic debt culture - and won the Guardian These artists want to blow up the whole financial system The New York Times Meet the Bonnie and Clyde of bad debt! When... -
Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea Samuel Miller McDonald 9780008462512
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better' The Guardian 'A new understanding of our past' Danny Dorling, author of... -
Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf 9780674541535
Booksplease Price: £34.25Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In... -
Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon 9780226833224
Booksplease Price: £16.75What does it mean to market yourself as a business in today's job search world? Finding a job used to be simple. Now . . . well, it's complicated. In today's economy, you can't just be an employee... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947179
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.31After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition by 9781642592627
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration... -
Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp 9781405974899
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.** FEATURED IN THE NEW BBC SERIES... -
Down and Out in England and Italy by Alberto Prunetti
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A wry, intelligent, and unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in the UK, the twenty-something-year-old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has never left... -
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times by Rob Percival
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation, by geopolitical tensions and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks... -
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics Natalie Bennett 9781032640273
Booksplease Price: £20.14Green Thinking seeks to "compost" the views of dead white men (Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Norman Borlaugh) and of some not white or dead (Francis Fukuyama, Richard Dawkins, Richard... -
Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era Giacomo D'Alisa 9781138000773
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of... -
Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism by Christine Desan
Booksplease Price: £39.86Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different...