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Prospect of an End: Darwin, and the Natural History of Capitalism and our Climate Crisis by Joel Wainwright 9781804299418
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Karl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, Capital, in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species had shattered humanity's conception... -
Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel by Tariq Ali 9781836743705
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet-Tariq Ali's much lauded series of historical novels, over twenty years in the writing, which has been translated into a dozen languages... -
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara 9781786636942
Booksplease Price: £17.19The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a... -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
Booksplease Price: £14.52What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not... -
The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man's Struggle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman
Booksplease Price: £23.65In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along... -
The Beginning of the End by Angelo Quattrocchi
Booksplease Price: £14.59In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution. Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi is complemented by Tom Nairn's cool and elegant appraisal to... -
Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone by Heiner Flassbeck
Booksplease Price: £13.26On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the... -
The Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti
Booksplease Price: £22.20Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is... -
Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre
Booksplease Price: £29.33In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx's revolutionary thought for philosophy. Metaphilosophy is conceived as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a... -
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.66In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating... -
Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua by Jing Wang
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.35Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film, and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an... -
Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics by B.J.Moore- Gilbert
Booksplease Price: £19.96Much controversy has recently come to surround the status and value of postcolonial modes of cultural analysis. Postcolonial theory has been challenged on several fronts: on its interdisciplinary... -
The Idea of Communism: The Seoul Conference: Volume 1 by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Booksplease Price: £20.70In 2009 Slavoj Zizek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The... -
Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson 9780860915379
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.90In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a... -
Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England by Christopher Hill 9780860919971
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860919971Author Christopher HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Anton Jäger 9781804292488
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also... -
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics by Kevin Ochieng Okoth 9781839767371
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary... -
Race, Politics, and Economic Development: Community Perspectives by James Jennings 9780860915898
Booksplease Price: £18.20In April 1992, the world witnessed a renewal in South-Central Los Angeles of the urban violence that had exploded there over a quarter of a century earlier. As in the Watts rebellion of 1965, the... -
NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson M. Pollock 9781844675395
Booksplease Price: £23.92Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of... -
African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop by Manning Marable 9780860918844
Booksplease Price: £25.62What explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes-some calling themselves "socialist"-in contemporary African and Caribbean politics?One of America's leading black scholars assesses the... -
European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by Victor G Kiernan 9781804291078
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of... -
The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization by Mohamed Amer Meziane 9781804291771
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand... -
Teachers, Writers, Celebrities by Regis Debray 9780860910398
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860910398Author Regis DebrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
Booksplease Price: £18.79Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the... -
Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection by Andrew Berry 9781859844786
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.38Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at the age of thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently on the theory of natural... -
Politics: A Selection by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781859841310
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.09This book, a selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volume Politics, presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative... -
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...