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The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape (Pluto Press, Australia) 9780730397533
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730397533Author Scott PapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint John Wiley & Sons Australia... -
A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change by E. Sylvia Pankhurst 9780745339375
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's... -
Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans: Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse by James Crossley 9780745338293
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties. From the paternalistic Christianity used to justify... -
Double Crossed: The Failure of Organized Crime Control by Michael Woodiwiss 9780745332024
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24In the United States, the popular symbols of organised crime are still Depression-era figures such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky - thought to be heads of giant, hierarchically... -
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa by Luke Sinwell 9780745336534
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana... -
Storming Heaven - Second Edition: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright 9780745399911
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the... -
Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls Teresa Hayter 9780745322445
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.61Assessing the impact of the increasing severity of border controls since they were first introduced, Teresa Hayter makes the controversial case for their abolition. Focussing on postwar... -
Climate Change: Small Guides to Big Issues by Melanie Jarman 9780745325804
Booksplease Price: £15.26What are the global challenges of the twenty-first century? Heatwaves, long droughts and freak storms all indicate one thing: the world's climate is changing. This book examines the reality of... -
Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights by Steve Striffler 9780745399201
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24How and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have particular strategies, tactics, and strands of internationalism emerged or re-emerged at particular moments? And how has solidarity shaped the... -
England's Discontents: Political Cultures and National Identities by Mike Wayne 9780745399324
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24England's Discontents unpacks the genealogy of British identities over the last two hundred years as they have been shaped by the main political cultures and their interactions with cultural politics... -
Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction by Francois Houtart 9780745330129
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.21Agrofuels were heralded as a key weapon in the fight against climate change, but the deforestation and theft of agricultural land that was essential to farmers in the developing world, suggests that... -
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives by Robert Ovetz 9780745340845
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below by... -
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab 9780745337845
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.24*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a... -
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies by Stefania Maurizi 9780745347622
Booksplease Price: £88.62*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism and Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award 2022* 'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to... -
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons by Aasim Sajjad-Akhtar 9780745346670
Booksplease Price: £88.62The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of 'the... -
Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship by Ladislav Holy 9780745309170
Booksplease Price: £30.32This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific... -
After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II by Noam Chomsky 9780745335506
Booksplease Price: £21.25The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman... -
Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today by D. L. Raby 9780745324357
Booksplease Price: £31.76Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union? What is the way forward for the Left? This book argues that Cuba and Venezuela provide inspiration for anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist... -
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler 9780745325040
Booksplease Price: £29.78This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs. The UN and... -
The Democratisation of Disempowerment: The Problem of Democracy in the Third World by Jochen Hippler 9780745309781
Booksplease Price: £29.78The Democratisation of Disempowerment explores key questions on Third World democratisation. Examining local elites and social movements, violence and Western foreign policy, Islamic political... -
Pornography, Feminism and the Individual by Alison Assiter 9780745305219
Booksplease Price: £31.76A refreshing critique of liberal and radical feminist perspectives on pornography. 'One new feminist book I have welcomed is Alison Assiter's. ... It deserves careful reading.' Elizabeth Wilson ... -
The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy by Martin McQuillan 9780745326740
Booksplease Price: £31.76'In this fine collection a group of distinguished scholars have produced the best book so far about Derrida's politics of the future.' J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor, University... -
The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future by Michael Jacobs 9780745304120
Booksplease Price: £31.76Written from a green and socialist perspective, The Green Economy sets out both the theory and the practice of a sustainable economic system.About the AuthorMichael Jacobs is a former lecturer at the... -
Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World by Edouard Morena 9780745339948
Booksplease Price: £86.43In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of... -
Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka by Mark P. Whitaker 9780745323534
Booksplease Price: £31.86This is the story of the life and impact of the political activist, journalist and freedom-fighter Sivaram Dharmeratnam, who dedicated his life to helping the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. He started... -
NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics by William E. DeMars 9780745319056
Booksplease Price: £29.88Non-Governmental Organisations and their networks are proliferating in all regions of the world. They address every transnational issue from population to peace, human rights to species rights,... -
Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy by Adam David Morton 9780745323848
Booksplease Price: £36.83'Powerful and clarifying ... The book's combination of careful argument and cogent illustration will make this a landmark volume in Gramscian studies.' John Agnew, University of California, Los... -
War and an Irish Town Eamonn McCann 9780745307251
Booksplease Price: £28.88Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto was first published in 1974. It quickly became a recognised as a classic account of the feelings generated... -
Culture as Politics: Selected Writings by Christopher Caudwell 9780745337234
Booksplease Price: £86.43Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published... -
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy Aaron Jaffe 9780745340548
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.23How do we integrate the theoretical underpinnings of social reproduction theory (SRT) into our understanding of the social harms inflicted upon us? How can we use it to inform our struggles and... -
Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-1991 by Willie Thompson 9780745327112
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.99This is a history of political ideologies during the period from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, famously described by Eric Hobsbawm as 'The Age of Extremes'. By introducing... -
The Low Cost Planet: Energy and Environmental Problems, Solutions and Costs by David Toke 9780745308449
Booksplease Price: £31.76'An original and wonderfully clear synthesis ... I can’t think of a better starting point for the general public, or a better refresher for policymakers’ Conservation Law Foundation 'Well researched... -
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State's Genocide of the Yezidis by Thomas Schmidinger 9780745346069
Booksplease Price: £87.79The persecution of the Yezidis, a Gnostic religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 August 2014, Islamic State attacked the Yezidi... -
Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change by Stefania Barca 9780745343877
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.65Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle. In Workers of the Earth, Stefania... -
Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production by Maruska Svasek 9780745317946
Booksplease Price: £32.34This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them,... -
Beyond the Final Whistle: Soccer for Social Change by Vasilis Kostakis 9780745351216
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.45Beyond the Final Whistle explores a new philosophy of football, showing how sport could lead to social change instead of propping up a hyper-consumerist and collapsing society. With a light touch,... -
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison by Gultan Kisanak 9780745347097
Booksplease Price: £88.62Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique... -
Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy by Marlene Benquet 9780745347585
Booksplease Price: £88.57Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority... -
The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s by Giorgos Charalambous 9780745340517
Booksplease Price: £88.62Is today's left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late... -
Settler Colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert 9780745344973
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.66From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the...