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The Political Economy of Narcotics by Julia Buxton 9781842774472
Booksplease Price: £33.49This book explores the origins, history and organisation of the international system of narcotic drug control with a specific focus on heroin, cannabis and cocaine. It argues that the century-long... -
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T. Huber
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As... -
The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might... -
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch 9781642598834
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £32.30A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis. Now with 50% more socialism! Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction... -
Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy by Molly McClain 9781496216656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support... -
The Global Police State by William I Robinson
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.61As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But... -
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Andrew E. Hunt 9780814736357
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in... -
What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 by Neil Davidson 9781642599152
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that... -
Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav 9781839761294
Booksplease Price: £13.74Silicon 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... -
The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth by Blake Gumprecht 9780801866425
Booksplease Price: £32.35Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the... -
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx by Eagleton Derrida
Booksplease Price: £21.81With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided... -
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments Jeffrey N Wasserstrom 9780415213288
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking... -
Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century by Rob Sullivan
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick... -
Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams by John Feffer
Booksplease Price: £21.67In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in... -
Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn 9781859844090
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.74Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision. A work of unique scope, it traces the origins and development of the pension idea, from the days of the French... -
The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh by 9781849045223
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a... -
Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles by Vincent Brook
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £101.40Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers-think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli-Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process... -
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies by Ginger Strand 9781416546573
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape... -
Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity by Adam Jones 9781842771914
Booksplease Price: £47.04Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized... -
California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History by Richard White 9780393243062
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.26"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so... -
Global Cities and Urban Theory by Donald McNeill 9781446267073
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £39.79Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the world's major cities, working with concepts such as smart cities, volumetric urbanism, and... -
Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities by Kees Koonings 9781780324562
Booksplease Price: £26.90Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has... -
Introduction to Management by Colin Combe
Booksplease Price: £71.99This brand new textbook covers all of the core topics found on Introduction to Management modules, and the author's clear, accessible writing style guides students through the world of management... -
Big Has AWAY Hasan Semay 9780008603755
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.35'Jam-packed full of incredible food from his travels around Turkey, this is Has at his best - bold, honest, beautiful, and full of heart' - Jamie Oliver ... -
I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land Peter Navarro 9781648212017
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.36When former White House adviser Peter Navarro stood on principle, he never imagined it would land him behind bars. Navarro stood up for a right long protected by Democrats and Republicans alike, and... -
Splinterlands by John Feffer 9781608467242
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52John Feffer's striking new dystopian novel takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multi-ethnic great powers like Russia and China have... -
The National Archives History Toolkit for Primary Schools by Ms Clare Horrie
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £31.42The ultimate companion to teaching history in primary schools. With instant access to genuine historical sources that can be downloaded from a companion website, accompanied by exciting lesson... -
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? by 9781608460670
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.95In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how globalised societies of the present are the result of a contested,... -
Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots by Sean Mitchell 9781608466788
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against... -
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Rebecca Solnit 9781782119074
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of... -
The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.92This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in... -
22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World's Foremost Thinkers by Piotr Dutkiewicz 9781479860982
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the... -
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro by Richard Lapper
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's... -
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro by Richard Lapper 9781526149015
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's... -
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer 9780252031090
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £81.32Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the... -
Constructions of Neoliberal Reason by Jamie Peck 9780199580576
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £66.52Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with... -
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought, and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles by Paul Haddad 9781595801272
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city's... -
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari 9780300270389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30WINNER OF THE 2022 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD (NONFICTION) A BLOOMBERG BEST NONFICTION BOOK "Does not pull its punches."-The Independent "Enthralling."-New York Times "A compelling story of racial and... -
Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico by Jake Kosek
Booksplease Price: £31.63Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States... -
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots by Brenda Stevenson 9780190231019
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £24.99Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992,...