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The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Stuart Hall was one of the most insightful and incisive critics of the Thatcher era. In this essential selection of his essays during the period, he elaborates both how Thatcher's rise to power... -
How I Became A Socialist by William Morris 9781788736916
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.58William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly... -
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn 9781839766190
Booksplease Price: £27.58The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the... -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal 9781788732307
Booksplease Price: £25.80Since the 1970s, Washington has been secretly funding some of the worst terrorists in the Middle East. America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden... -
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of... -
In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44In Praise of Disobedience draws on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose - the year he came into maturity as an artist... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and... -
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser 9781839765117
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis - ecological, political, social - which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging... -
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance John Berger 9781804298251
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold... -
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett 9781839764080
Booksplease Price: £17.19When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968... -
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography by J. P. Nettl 9781788731676
Booksplease Price: £56.42This biography, first published half a century ago, remains the most detailed and comprehensive study of Rosa Luxemburg. Nettl's extensive knowledge of the social and political context of the... -
The Reform of Europe: A Political Guide to the Future by Michel Aglietta
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51The Eurozone crisis since 2010 has instilled political disunity and generated a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as... -
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic... -
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton 9781839762574
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24The Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognises that how populations govern themselves is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple... -
Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by R. Trebor Scholz 9781839764554
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform-an internet... -
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop 9781804292884
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.93The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over... -
False Prophets: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Norbert Guterman 9781788736961
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51A classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik 9781788731607
Booksplease Price: £27.64In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These... -
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... -
Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England by Christopher Hill 9781786636218
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that... -
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial... -
Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance by John Gastil
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.49Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem... -
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Kojin Karatani
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Originally 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... -
Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This... -
Balzac's Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan 9781839767258
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with... -
Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis by Adrienne Buller
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset... -
The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting by Alexander Vasudevan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit,... -
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Longlisted for The Millions Best Translated Book Awards for FictionLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureFour siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a... -
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.89Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political... -
Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It by Vivek Chibber 9781839762703
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize around... -
The Monster Enters by 9781839765650
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes. Now in this expanded edition of that 2005 book, Davis... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential... -
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy and How to Rebuild it Michael McCarthy 9781788730662
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up... -
Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt by Richard Langston 9781788735179
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory...