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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... -
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world... -
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn 9781786630421
Booksplease Price: $44.45Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional... -
Flora Tristan: Feminism in the Age of George Sand: Feminist Classics by Sandra Dijkstra
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the... -
Homosexuality: Power and Politics by Gay Left Collective
Booksplease Price: $22.90After the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sense... -
A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty Three Students by Anabel Hernandez
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a... -
The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love by Andy Merrifield 9781786631077
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love.In The Amateur, thinker... -
Reformation to Industrial Revolution by Christopher Hill 9781786636188
Booksplease Price: $27.97In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250... -
The Notion of Authority by Alexandre Kojève
Booksplease Price: $18.42In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojeve uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of... -
Literature of Revolution: Essays on Marxism by Norman Geras
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44This influential collection explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist tradition. Ranging over questions of social theory, political theory, moral philosophy and literary criticism, it... -
Disobey!: A Philiosophy of Resistance by Frederic Gros
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity,... -
The Day After the Revolution by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's... -
Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi by Linda Melvern
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.28It is twenty-five years since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda when in the course of three terrible months more than 1 million people were murdered. In the intervening years a pernicious... -
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason by Thomas Lemke
Booksplease Price: $28.35Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only... -
Paris in Turmoil: A City between Past and Future by Eric Hazan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. Take for example a small... -
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.17In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism,... -
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones... -
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It by Nancy Fraser 9781804292587
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for... -
Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown by Mathew Lawrence 9781839765100
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34As we rebuild our lives in the wake of Covid-19 and face the challenges of ecological disaster, how can the left win a world fit for life? Planet on Fire is an urgent manifesto for a fundamental ... -
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery 9781786637871
Booksplease Price: $30.51A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes,... -
The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopia by Malcolm Bull
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collective emancipation in which freedom is achieved not... -
Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Ranciere has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of... -
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume III: Political Writings 1. On Revolution: 1897-1905 by Rosa Luxemburg
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $27.34This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg's life and work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain... -
The Putney Debates by The Levellers
Booksplease Price: $22.61In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in... -
The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38A revolutionary practice of production-the knowledge economy-has emerged in our time. It appears in every sector, not just in high-tech industry, but so far only as a series of insular vanguards that... -
Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich... -
![Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco "Bifo" Berardi](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/144904/8500459/9781784787448__57203.1743002823.jpg?c=1 "Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco "Bifo" Berardi")
Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is... -
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book,... -
Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.38Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and... -
Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military by Franny Nudelman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.83On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in... -
A Woman Called Moses: A Prophet for Our Time by Jean-Christophe Attias
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. Depicted there in suprising and contradicting ways, and both for and against his people, bringer of the tablets of law which he... -
Share the Wealth: How to End Rentier Capitalism by Philippe Askenazy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $4.46How can we reduce inequalities? How can we make work get better recognition and better pay?Philippe Askenazy in this new book shows that the current share of wealth is far from natural; it results... -
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists by Nandini Sundar
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.88The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed... -
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers by Ann Pettifor 9781786631350
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34According to leading economist Ann Pettifor, one of the few people to predict the 2008 financial crisis, money is not a commodity but a promise. This radical reconsideration of the power of money... -
A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros 9781804290446
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no... -
The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781788734981
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it... -
The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many... -
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the ...