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Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution Max Eastman 9781138712638
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The result of 10 years' worth of painstaking research, this volume, originally published in 1926 is a sympathetic critique of certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Among other... -
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism Alexander Anievas 9780745336152
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.20*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International... -
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his... -
Methodology of Social Sciences Max Weber 9781412813198
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Edited and with a new introduction by Robert J. Antonio and Alan Sica.Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and... -
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy by James Vigus
Booksplease Price: £83.04This book investigates how Laurence Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction. It reveals that Shandean humour is a... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Tagore 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 Evolution of Modern Economic Theory: And Other Papers on the History of Economic Thought Carl Cone 9780202309194
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The long paper which gives the title to this collection and which has never before been published as paperback was initially an attempt to promote international academic understanding. The Economics... -
Experiential Education in the College Context: What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters by Jay W. Roberts
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Experiential Education in the College Context provides college and university faculty with pedagogical approaches that engage students and support high-impact learning. Organized around four... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all... -
Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City by Yat Ming Loo 9781138267008
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban... -
The Scope of Understanding in Sociology by Werner Pelz 9781138791862
Booksplease Price: £43.01In their efforts to emulate the methodology which had proved so successful in the natural sciences, the social sciences - including sociology - have not yet faced the question as to what constitutes... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies Karl Popper 9781138126800
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.99'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that,... -
Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge 9780091888985 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
Marx and Engels and the English Workers: And Other Essays by W. O. Henderson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Published in the year 1989, Marx and Engels and the English Workers is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.Book InformationISBN 9780714633343Author W. O. HendersonFormat PaperbackPage... -
A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals Peter Osborne 9780415115063
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23A Critical Sense brings together in a single volume the leading figures of contemporary radical theory. Moving freely between philosophy, politics and cultural studies, it offers a fascinating... -
Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine Richard Brilliant 9781138246768
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.14This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and... -
The Metaphysics by Aristotle 9780140446197
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated from the with an... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
The Portable Karl Marx by Karl Marx
Booksplease Price: £16.33This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas... -
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia David Ownby 9781563241994
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.About the AuthorDavid Ownby, Mary F... -
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions: Promoting Environmental and Social Sustainability? Michael Luck 9781138967038
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with... -
The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis by William H. Swatos 9781594510991
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by... -
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.49Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to... -
Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila by Gavin Shatkin
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is... -
History and Society: Essays by R.H. Tawney by R. H. Tawney
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
Understanding Weber Sam Whimster (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9780415370769
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Understanding Weber provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the central issues of Weber's work. Using the most recent scholarship and editions of Weber's writings, Sam Whimster... -
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter by Boris Nicolaievsky
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.58Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book's first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger 9780552773324 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the Author by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was... -
The Economic Ideas of Marx's Capital: Steps towards post-Keynesian economics by Ludo Cuyvers
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theories can still be felt. However, since the... -
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void Patricia Garcia (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781138547766
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how... -
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the author of Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo's How the West was Lost explores how the 'first world' has its wasted inheritance with flawed economic policy - and what can be done to reverse the decline. ... -
Production and Distribution Theories George Stigler 9781560007104
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Production and Distribution Theories became a landmark in the study of economics when it was published in 1941. Nobel Laureate Stigler's book was the first to trace the development of theories... -
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations by Raju J Das 9781032248813
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84Marx's Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State examines the capitalist state in the abstract, and as it exists in advanced capitalism and peripheral capitalism, illustrating the ideas with...