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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han 9781804298428
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75Byung-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,... -
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait... -
Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Sub-urbs by Matt Hern 9781788738170
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world lives... -
Making Space: Women and the Mandmade Environment by 9781839765711
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.80Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality... -
Against Creativity by Oli Mould
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving... -
The Fall and Rise of the British Left by Andrew Murray
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80The remarkable advance of "Corbynism" did not emerge from nowhere. It is the product of developments in socialist and working-class politics over the past forty years and more. The Thatcher era... -
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: from J.P. Morgan to Blackrock by Scott Aquanno 9781839765261
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.89The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan's vast empire to the rise of finance... -
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the ... -
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern 9781788739818
Booksplease Price: $37.77Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies... -
Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism Jennifer Pan 9781804294222
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But five years on, it has mainly served to strengthen the ruling class and... -
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling 9781786637437
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV... -
Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel by Paul Buhle 9781804293492
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.09Under the Banner of King Death is a tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, bringing to life an itinerant community of outsiders behind today's legends. This graphic novel breaks new... -
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot 9781786632883
Booksplease Price: $51.22A toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that... -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.58In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured... -
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our... -
Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Yen-Yi Fong 9781804290170
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics-across the board,... -
Set My Heart on Fire Izumi Suzuki 9781804293300
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25Hope I'm in for a good time, I thought. Even if it's just for tonight.Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties... -
The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $13.19In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was... -
Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
Booksplease Price: $74.38Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working... -
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism by Markus Wissen
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western... -
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service by Melissa Benn
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.73It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the most clear sighted and vocal campaigners for improving our schools. She shows here... -
Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest by Maurice Godelier 9781804292341
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called... -
Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis by Donald Sassoon
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $33.92The deadly coronavirus spread across societies already riddled with political ills: rampant xenophobia and corruption, privatisation run amok, Brexiteer vainglory of 'a global Britain', a Euroland... -
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right. Movements like Bernie Sander, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have emerged in the midst of the... -
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam... -
The Intervals of Cinema by Jacques Ranciere 9781788736602
Booksplease Price: $34.06The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Ranciere relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most... -
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias,... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province... -
The New Poverty by Stephen Armstrong 9781786634658
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official... -
Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal 9781786631558
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism,... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching... -
Thirst: The Global Quest to Solve the Water Crisis Filippo Menga 9781804290712
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32A sense of urgency about the global water crisis has entered the political and corporate discourse, and in humanity's quest to solve it, we are all called to rise to the challenge. However, solutions... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 9781786632623
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $39.48The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream... -
The The Red Years: Theory, Politics, Aesthetics in the Japanese '68 by Gavin Walker
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.89The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan. It is also the... -
The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe by Romain Felli
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to the... -
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by Laura Kipnis
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78Feminism is broken: the current attempts to protect women from sexual abuse on campus, and on line. Regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults... -
Classes by Erik Olin Wright 9781804290484
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don't always know what is meant. Is class about income or affect or... -
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties Tariq Ali 9781804297131
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32The 1960s were a time of tumult and radicalism. Street Fighting Years captures the era's mood and energy, its hope and its passion. In this, the first of his memoirs, Tariq Ali tracks the growing...