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Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik by Roger Martin 9780262516839
Booksplease Price: £45.59This collection of essays presents an up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of linguistic theory. The book includes a new essay by Noam Chomsky as well as original contributions... -
The Establishment: And how they get away with it by Owen Jones
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a... -
Failure To Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian Howard Zinn 9781608463039
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Howard Zinn has illuminated American history and politics like none other. He wrote on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements and was one of America's best known and most beloved - or most hated -... -
Early Christian Lives by St. Athanasius
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude,... -
Palestine: Imperialism, Fossil Capitalism and Race Adam Hanieh 9781836740759
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A critical examination of the ongoing struggle in Palestine. This essential read provides clarity on the intertwined relationships of global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression, and... -
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawl Howard Zinn 9781608463053
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60As the first book to call for an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, Howard Zinn's Vietnam includes a powerful speech which he believed President Lyndon Johnson should have delivered to lay out the... -
A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan 9781398552906
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world-yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. In this vital book, historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza's... -
The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith 9781857150117
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.15Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith's celebrated defence of free... -
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Leif Weatherby 9781517919320
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01How generative AI systems capture a core function of language Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that... -
Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent Phil Scraton 9780745319629
Booksplease Price: £28.88The unprecedented and tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on world politics. Civilian deaths in horrific circumstances triggered an uncompromising response... -
A Short History of the Gaza Strip Anne Irfan 9781398536197
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.15The world's eyes are on the Gaza Strip. After more than a year of Israeli military bombardment, it is the scene of unimaginable destruction. It is also one of the most politically significant... -
Only a Voice: Essays by George Scialabba 9781804292006
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals... -
Marx In Soho: A Play on History by Howard Zinn 9781608463015
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Marx is back! The premise of this witty and insightful play on history' is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic... -
Emma Howard Zinn 9781608463077
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01With his with and unique ability to illuminate history from below, Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of a remarkable woman. Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist and free spirit, was exiled from the... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780140432077
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate... -
Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts and International fora and Coercive Power by David Barnhizer
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This title was first published in 2001: This book brings together the experiences of a diverse range of leading human rights advocates and activists to demonstrate strategies for protecting human... -
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality by David Edwards 9780745338125
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.60Do you trust the liberal media? While the tabloid and right-wing press - the Sun, The Times, the Mail and the Express - are constantly criticised for dangerous bias, outlets like the BBC and the... -
Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology by Oren Harman 9780226078373
Booksplease Price: £114.10Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences,... -
Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy by Sandra Laugier
Booksplease Price: £33.24Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and... -
The Cost of Sexism: How the Economy is Built for Men and Why We Must Reshape It by Professor Linda Scott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 FINANCIAL TIMES AND McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARAn urgent... -
Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory: Studies in Honor of Carlos P. Otero by Hector Campos
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £64.78This volume presents essays by some of the leading figures in the vanguard of theoretical linguistics within the framework of universal grammar. One of the first books to adopt the "minimalist"... -
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim 9780861548101
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once... -
Justice In Everyday Life: The Way it Really Works by Howard Zinn 9781608463022
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.08The book explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the police, the courts, prisons, housing, work, health,... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are... -
Sncc: The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn 9781608462995
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential... -
The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85'I started reading this and couldn't stop. It's a remarkable piece of work, and very revealing. A stirring rendition of a people's revolution'- Noam Chomsky'The deepest and most comprehensive account... -
Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.74What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... -
Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language by Yuliya Komska 9783319920092
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.30This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to... -
Essays by Wallace Shawn 9781608460021
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.78A collection of beautiful essays in which Wallace Shawn takes readers on a revelatory journey where the personal and the political become one. Shawn often focuses on contradictions, even when... -
Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy by Sandra Laugier 9780226829579
Booksplease Price: £24.80Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought,... -
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first... -
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, a clear-sighted and essential analysis of the political context around this region at a desperate impasseFrom the targeting of... -
The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that... -
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Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu 9781408705353 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.41In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour... -
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being by Richard Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing increasing levels of mental illness and distress?... -
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality David Edwards 9780745338118
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86Do you trust the liberal media? While the tabloid and right-wing press - the Sun, The Times, the Mail and the Express - are constantly criticised for dangerous bias, outlets like the BBC and the... -
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre by Dana Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dana Thomas's Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre goes deep inside the workings of today's world of profit margins and market share to discover the real meaning of 'luxury'. Fashion may be fabulous,... -
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.94In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel... -
Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba by Keith Bolender
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban...