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Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari 9781839762260
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari's accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in... -
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia by Malise Ruthven 9781839760112
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80In recent years, the de facto head of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social... -
Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination by Jeremy Harding 9781804295946
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.54Africa is a convenient abbreviation for 54 countries in which more than a thousand languages are spoken. This book offers a side-long glance, one that complicate the idea of a single continent by... -
Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic by Hossam el-Hamalawy 9781804297605
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51The agents of coercion in Egypt - its military, police, and intelligence services - have been locked in a perennial struggle for power since their inception. Each institution has vied for dominance,... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy 9781784780944
Booksplease Price: $14.56In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country' s 100 richest people own assets worth one... -
Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven 9781804298077
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51In August 9-10, 1969, ex-convict, musician, and charismatic leader Charles Manson ordered members of his countercultural "family" to kill some of Hollywood's wealthy, white, "beautiful people." He... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social... -
Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall by Paul Gilroy
Booksplease Price: $39.89Stuart Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. His early work on the media, his influential use of Gramsci in understanding Britain in the late 1970s, his unique and... -
Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an "age of riots" as... -
Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship by Erdmut Wizisla
Booksplease Price: $32.03Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin-acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist-and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's... -
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
Booksplease Price: $39.90One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time... -
Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality by Malcolm Bull
Booksplease Price: $36.17The multiplicity of the self and the inaccessibility of truth are commonplaces of contemporary thought. But in Seeing Things Hidden they become key features of a philosophy of history that reunites... -
The Retreat from Class: New True Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Booksplease Price: $23.18A survey of influential trends in contemporary Marxist theory which examines the relationship between class, politics and ideology. The introduction discusses the relevance of the text in a... -
Contraventions: Editorials from New Left Review by Susan Watkins
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51From 9/11 to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, the eurozone crisis to the Brexit vote, the Great Recession to the Arab Spring, the rise of China to the annexation of Crimea, the passage from... -
Police: A Field Guide by Tyler Wall 9781839765872
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80This book armed activists on the streets-as well as the many who have become concerned about police abuse-with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The... -
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge... -
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot 9781784784164
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded,... -
To Sin Against Hope: Life and Politics on the Borderland by Alfredo Gutierrez 9781781680872
Booksplease Price: $27.75Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown--the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the... -
The Making of the Second Cold War by Fred Halliday 9780860918547
Booksplease Price: $30.51We are living through the Second Cold War, yet what is it? Millions in East and West now fear a nuclear conflict, yet confrontation and panic continue to obscure understanding of the processes that... -
What is Subjectivity? by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781784781378
Booksplease Price: $19.65In 1961 the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers such as Enzo Paci,... -
Abortion and Women's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky 9781804294833
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37This prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the... -
Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy by Domenico Losurdo 9781784787318
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.90The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers' movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. John Stuart Mill, for example, argued that... -
Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday: v.2 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671922
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.90Henri 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... -
Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz 9781839767227
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of... -
This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy Adewale Maja-Pearce 9781804291801
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89In this groundbreaking work the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country... -
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil Saul Friedländer 9781804296783
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.54Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedländer began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was... -
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade Jeff Schuhrke 9781839769054
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51There is power in a union. Not only the power to secure pay raises and employee benefits, but the power to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the... -
The History of Disruption: Social Struggle in the Atlantic World Mehmet Dösemeci 9781804293904
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.03Why do we think of social struggles as movements? Have struggles been practiced otherwise? Not as motion but as, interruption, occupation, disturbance, arrest? If so, what are struggles trying to... -
What Is Cultural Criticism? by Francis Mulhern 9781804293379
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern's account of what he terms... -
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World Antony Loewenstein 9781839762093
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingShortlisted for the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian... -
Lula: A Biography Fernando Morais 9781804294925
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51Lula is among the greatest political figures in Brazilian history. The only president in the country with a working-class background, combined with a party that was profoundly original in its roots,... -
Salvage #14: Shrouded in Darkness by Salvage 9781804298848
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.16Issue 14 of Salvage magazine, featuring essays from Sophie Lewis, Alberto Toscano, The Zetkin Collective and many others“Shrouded in Darkness,” the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Salvage... -
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan by Alenka Zupancic 9781859842188
Booksplease Price: $30.51The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-establishment of fear. In attempting to interpret sucha a revcolutionary... -
The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine by Iain Bamforth 9781781686287
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $37.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781686287Author Iain BamforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics by Ross Barkan 9781804299388
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804299388Author Ross BarkanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
On Screens by Joanna Walsh 9781839765391
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89As platforms constantly expect us to update and post, our status as 'artists' is often overlooked. The internet has become a world of appearances where aesthetics trumps ethics - it is more important... -
How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy by Cédric Durand 9781804294390
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In... -
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion by Seyda Kurt 9781804298107
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois homes. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists'... -
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire by Pankaj Mishra 9781788737340
Booksplease Price: $25.43Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even... -
Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century by Jean-Luc Mélenchon 9781804297957
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a New Popular Front of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon...