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Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.The... -
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a... -
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.35Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women... -
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
Booksplease Price: $13.66A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' - David Bollier'With... -
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis by Martin Wolf
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis... -
The Blue Commons: The Political Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.44A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' - David Bollier'With... -
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John BergerWhy rebel?Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of... -
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.60Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society... -
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an... -
Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $36.95For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two... -
The Social Contract And The Discources by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857151626
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.13THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is... -
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley 9781982180850
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982180850Author Grace BlakeleyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom /]Cby Grace Blakeley by Grace Blakeley 9781982180867
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982180867Author Grace BlakeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Ha-Joon Chang 9781905211371
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory,... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.78In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in... -
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition by Greta Thunberg
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.30The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a... -
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) by Richard Layard
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become... -
More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep... -
Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World by Lily Cole
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human consumption has caused the extinction of countless species and neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a... -
Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans against machines' GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author... -
Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.21'Thrilling' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'Authoritative and furious, urgent and persuasive' Sunday Times'Compelling ... Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his... -
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade - from a former member of the African National CongressRevealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of... -
Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz by Katherine Baber
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from... -
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous... -
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky 9780141043609
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best way out. 'One would expect... -
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 9780241372548
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and... -
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would... -
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's... -
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to... -
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72John 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 Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the... -
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. ... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.66'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to... -
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard... -
Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in Tales of Hoffman are selected and translated from the German... -
The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor by John Kay
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model - unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax -... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld...