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Wanna See a Llama? by Simon Philip 9780192783547
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16Do you wanna see a llama? Then come this way, as our self-described 'llama expert' takes her friend on a chase around the city. They discover wild and wacky animals around every corner - but are any... -
Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton 9781844675517
Booksplease Price: €21.19Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this... -
Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song Denis O'Hearn 9780745336336
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.14This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades,... -
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Miéville
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in... -
Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William Saunders
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.67Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative "Smart Growth" initiatives... -
Victor Serge: A Biography by Susan Weissman 9781844678877
Booksplease Price: €39.53Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident-Victor Serge is one of the most compelling figures to have emerged from the history of the Soviet Union. A dedicated activist... -
Crisis and Contagion: Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19 by Ian McKay 9781771136396
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.34Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm,... -
The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Nick Turse 9781844674510
Booksplease Price: €21.52Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama's "just war," the destination for an additional thirty thousand US troops in an effort to shore up an increasingly... -
Everything Is Now: Primal Happenings, Radical Music, Underground Movies, and the 1960s New York Avant-Garde J Hoberman 9781804290866
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.12Comparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avantgarde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. ... -
The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by David M Struthers
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational... -
Automation and the Future of Work by 9781839761324
Booksplease Price: €16.95Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as... -
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past by William Deverell 9780520246676
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six... -
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century Frederick Buell 9780415950404
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66From Apocalypse to Way of Life is a comprehensive and in depth survey of environmental crisis as it has been understood for the last four decades. Buell recounts the growing number of ecological and... -
Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded by Mustafa Dikec
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.99A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few decades, urban riots... -
Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s by Robert Brenner
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.32Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and... -
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century by Frederick Buell 9780415934077
Booksplease Price: €88.05From Apocalypse to Way of Life is a comprehensive and in depth survey of environmental crisis as it has been understood for the last four decades. Buell recounts the growing number of ecological and... -
The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles by Susanna Phillips Newbury 9781517903176
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €107.34A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life... -
Megacity Kathleen McCaul Moura 9781911343813
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.60MEGACITY brings together new writing from some of the most impenetrable corners of the world today with creativity, resilience and beautifully black humour. COVID-19 has thrived in megacities and... -
The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher
RRP: €97.57Booksplease Price: €66.70Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive ... -
The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune by Tanis C. Thorne 9780195182989
Booksplease Price: €39.73The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state... -
Another City: Writing from Los Angeles by David L. Ulin 9780872863910
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.02Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about... -
The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by David M Struthers 9780252042478
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.82A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational... -
The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles by Susanna Phillips Newbury
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life... -
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher 9781859844519
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €36.93Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible... -
Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonne by Carole Naggar
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €40.86The first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agency This fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre... -
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment Alessa Johns 9780415921763
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines... -
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements Trevor Ngwane 9780745342009
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.60Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book... -
The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929 by Isaac Deutscher 9781859844465
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €36.58Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible... -
Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City S. Harris Ali (York University, Toronto) 9781405161343
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.30A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. Presents... -
The Cultures of Cities Sharon Zukin (City University of New York) 9781557864376
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €36.07How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are... -
An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict by Daniel Bertand Monk 9780822328148
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines... -
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €23.61In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own... -
The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings Joana Carla Soares Goncalves (Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil) 9781138993488
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.69Tall buildings represent one of the most energy-intensive architectural typologies, while at the same time offering the high density work and living conditions that many believe will an important... -
Performance and Activism: Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992 by Kamran Afary 9780739133569
Booksplease Price: €133.43Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another... -
Performance and Activism: Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992 by Kamran Afary 9780739133576
Booksplease Price: €60.93Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another... -
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO by Richard Peet 9781848132528
Booksplease Price: €32.01Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it? The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the... -
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RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €9.92In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines... -
The Althusserian Legacy by Michael Sprinker
Booksplease Price: €21.98Louis Althusser remained until his death in 1990 the most controversial of the "master thinkers" who emerged from the turbulent Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. The publication of his... -
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin 9780745343174
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €78.60In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own...