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The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.22In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator Grace Blakeley theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 9781786632623
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.38The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream... -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal 9781788732291
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.90THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian... -
Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When It's Gone by Astra Taylor 9781788738262
Booksplease Price: £25.62Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide... -
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller 9781788730921
Booksplease Price: £16.99Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanization. At the same time it is difficult... -
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse... -
Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Yen-Yi Fong 9781804290170
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics-across the board,... -
The The Red Years: Theory, Politics, Aesthetics in the Japanese '68 by Gavin Walker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan. It is also the... -
Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
Booksplease Price: £33.16Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working... -
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism by Markus Wissen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western... -
Thirst: The Global Quest to Solve the Water Crisis Filippo Menga 9781804290712
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32A sense of urgency about the global water crisis has entered the political and corporate discourse, and in humanity's quest to solve it, we are all called to rise to the challenge. However, solutions... -
Girl Online: A Users' Manifesto by 9781839765353
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to... -
Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship by Tariq Ali 9781786635372
Booksplease Price: £17.74The story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is yet another proof that the revolutionary moment was global. In that year, following a long period of tumult, a radical... -
The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People-of any and no gender-have... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most... -
The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.54In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was... -
The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe by Romain Felli
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to the... -
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias,... -
Daring to Hope: A Memoir of the 1970s by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women's liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province... -
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Malm
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.45The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social... -
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service by Melissa Benn
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the most clear sighted and vocal campaigners for improving our schools. She shows here... -
Classes by Erik Olin Wright 9781804290484
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don't always know what is meant. Is class about income or affect or... -
Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism, and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment by Ronald Suny 9781788730747
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were... -
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties Tariq Ali 9781804297131
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The 1960s were a time of tumult and radicalism. Street Fighting Years captures the era's mood and energy, its hope and its passion. In this, the first of his memoirs, Tariq Ali tracks the growing... -
The New Poverty by Stephen Armstrong 9781786634658
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official... -
Levi-Strauss by Maurice Godelier 9781784787066
Booksplease Price: £80.53One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropologyAs a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Levi-Strauss's assistant. Since then, Godelier has... -
Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West by Deborah Cook 9781788730822
Booksplease Price: £23.94Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period in our history. To assess... -
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism Lucio Magri 9781786635549
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.40The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italian... -
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by Laura Kipnis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Feminism is broken: the current attempts to protect women from sexual abuse on campus, and on line. Regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults... -
Napoleon's Cursed War: Spanish Popular Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808–14 by Ronald Fraser
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition -... -
Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal 9781786631558
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism,... -
Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest by Maurice Godelier 9781804292341
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching... -
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have... -
Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Júnior
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one... -
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources -... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.37But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and... -
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Lbe) by Kojin Karatani 9781788737791
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.28Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political... -
Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife by Colin McFarlane 9781839760549
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most...