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The Little Book of Philosophy by DK 9780241341179 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.63Learn everything you need to know about the world of philosophy- from the key thinkers to modern concepts in a brand new portable size.To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting... -
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh 9780141029696 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.16Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.Nureyev's achievements and... -
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton 9781848310865
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.About the AuthorJohn Heaton is a psychotherapist and was... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival... -
A Bunker in Kyiv by John Lyons 9781460767825
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over JerusalemLonglisted for the 2025 Walkley Award On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to the... -
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security by Elliot N. Dorff
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Is it morally acceptable to use surveillance and profiling to protect national security? Should war only be used in self-defense? Is torture in times of war morally acceptable? Contributors include... -
Deconstructing Hegemony: Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography by Eman El-Meligi 9780199408467
Booksplease Price: $21.87Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The... -
A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.82History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is a history of... -
The Psychology of Totalitarianism Mattias Desmet 9781645022756
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59'The most important book of 2022.' Dr. Robert Malone Desmet's work on mass formation theory was brought to the world's attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets... -
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.55'The most important book of 2022.' Dr. Robert Malone Desmet's work on mass formation theory was brought to the world's attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets... -
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide by R. L. Trask 9781848310889
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.75Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.About the AuthorR.L. Trask was a... -
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9798216371014
Booksplease Price: $24.08A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences TitleFrom Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."Award-winning author, scholar, and social... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Christopher Hitchens 9781836743590
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51How the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very... -
I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language by Andrea C. Moro
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood...On... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists by Robert Pollin
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.67Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists, whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. They all deploy... -
Performance and Competence in Second Language Acquisition by Gillian Brown 9780521558617 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.48Booksplease Price: $6.45This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind. You'll... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41With a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what... -
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the... -
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland 9781473675162 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $4.68'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the... -
The Culture of Conformism: Understanding Social Consent by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780822327059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $33.92"[Hogan's] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of understanding that will be of practical value to those who struggle for justice and freedom. Drawing from an impressive array of... -
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire
Booksplease Price: $31.21First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and... -
French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions: Postwar French Thought, Volume IV by Etienne Balibar 9781565848825
Booksplease Price: $53.09The fourth and final volume of The New Press Postwar French Thought series provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding the history of ideas since 1945. This anthology collects the writings of... -
The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies... -
Syntax: A Generative Introduction 4e & The Syntax Workbook 2e Set Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona) 9781119794370
RRP: $93.73Booksplease Price: $87.18Get Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, and The Syntax Workbook, Second Edition, in a combined set This set includes both the newly revised fourth edition of Syntax: A... -
The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann
Booksplease Price: $80.91The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of... -
The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - From Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a 'new Cold War' proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new study, the Cold War has been ongoing since the turn of... -
Call of the Wild, The by Jack London 9781906230777
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.37Buck, a big, powerful dog, is kidnapped from his California home and sold as a sled dog in the Arctic. In his new environment, he must learn quickly how to deal with man's club and dog's fang, or he... -
Big Questions From Little People . . . Answered By Some Very Big People by Gemma Elwin Harris
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Why is the sea salty?How far away is space?Why can't I tickle myself?Why can't we live forever?Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how are we supposed to answer them..... -
Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism by Ian G. R. Shaw
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $10.88Drawing up alternate ways to "make a living" beyond capitalism To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking... -
The University, State, and Market: The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas by Robert A. Rhoads 9780804751681 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65This volume explores the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets throughout the Americas in light of the growing influence of globalization. It offers a biting critique of... -
A History of Language by Steven Roger Fischer
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $17.61It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the... -
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein 9780520318335
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $25.90"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."-Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without... -
On the Unhappiness of Being Greek by Nikos Dimou 9781780992952
Booksplease Price: $7.89If Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal have a Greek analogue, it is Nikos Dimou, one of the most fertile minds of his generation. This book is a series of 193 mostly brief, often cutting and at times... -
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History by Michael Pembroke, Hon Justice 9781761451980
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation. Much... -
The New Mandarins of American Power: The Bush Administration's Plans for the World Alex Callinicos (University of York) 9780745632759
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In this timely book, Alex Callinicos explores the real meaning of the Bush Doctrine. He deconstructs the rhetorical justifications of the 'war on terrorism' and analyses the strategy of the... -
Short Book About Ego..., A: and the Remedy of Meditation David Edwards 9781803418162
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A Sufi tale has it that God plays a joke on us when we re born. He whispers in our ear: You are the special one! The joke is that He says it to everyone. Referring to the works of Eckhart Tolle,... -
A History of Language by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861890801
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $18.63It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his... -
The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700-1948 by Ilan Pappe 9780863564536
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family's political influence,...