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The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape (Pluto Press, Australia) 9780730397533
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730397533Author Scott PapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty Jairo Lugo-Ocando 9780745334417
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of... -
The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan by Saadia Toor
Booksplease Price: £29.55This book tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of... -
Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act Heather Brooke 9780745325828
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.94Have you ever wanted to know: - Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? - If MI5 has a file on you? - The actual number and type of crimes that happen in your... -
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today by Steven Salaita
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America's involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America... -
Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing by Lesley J. Wood
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and... -
The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts Catherine Lutz 9780745328324
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04This book examines US military bases across the globe including those in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. It documents the massive political, economic and environmental impacts that these outposts... -
Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions Diana Johnstone 9780745319506
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. ... -
The Battle For China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution Mobo Gao 9780745327808
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30--Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens-- "A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a... -
Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance by Jim E. Thatcher 9780745340081
Booksplease Price: £85.65In recent years, popular media has inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their... -
The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 by Wendy Kristianasen 9780745331874
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.90Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals. Published monthly in French and English, it brings together a diverse range of high-calibre writers from across the... -
New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization by Boris Kagarlitsky 9780745315515
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.06In this radical and controversial overview of the post-communist world, Boris Kagarlitsky argues that the very success of neoliberal capitalism has made traditional socialism all the more necessary... -
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups by Janice J. Terry 9780745322582
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Millions of dollars are spent every year by companies and special interest groups attempting to influence government policy. They work behind the scenes, lobbying politicians to represent their... -
The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right by David Renton 9780745338170
Booksplease Price: £85.65All across the world, right-wing politics is shifting, with conservatives and supporters of the far right allying. From Donald Trump to Marine Le Pen, these figureheads agree on issues that would... -
Citizenship and Social Class T. H. Marshall 9780745304762
Booksplease Price: £29.55Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in post-war Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal... -
The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume II Kees van der Pijl 9780745323169
Booksplease Price: £66.05How do we think about international relations? There is no question that society is based upon its cultural foundations, yet this mode of understanding the world is seemingly absent from IR. The... -
Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice by John Laughland 9780745326351
Booksplease Price: £33.50Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in 2006 during a four-year marathon trial at The Hague for war crimes. John Laughland was one of the last Western journalists to meet him. He followed the trial from... -
The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China Behzad Yaghmaian 9780745332307
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.68In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities. ... -
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? Bassam Haddad (George Mason University) 9780745333243
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.19This is a one-stop introduction to the multifaceted phenomenon of the 'Arab Spring', from the writers of Jadaliyya. Covering the full range of issues involved in these historic events, from... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles 9780745334127
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor 9780745336985
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike,... -
Kicking Off Around The World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics by Ramon Usall 9780745348797
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88'A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe' Mehreen Khan, The Times and co-host of the 'Heroes & Humans' podcast 'Brings us closer to... -
Suspect Community: People's Experiences of the Prevention of Terrorism Act by Paddy Hillyard 9780745307268
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.90'This book sheds valuable light on the darker side of the operation of the act in Britain' Steven Greer, Fortnight 'Written in an accessible style, this should be an invaluable reference tool for... -
The Great Reporters by David Randall 9780745322964
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted... -
Cosmopolitan Ireland: Globalisation and Quality of Life by Carmen Kuhling 9780745326504
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Ireland is going through a period of unprecedented economic and cultural growth and renewal. These changes are due in part to neoliberal policies that have attracted foreign investment. The... -
The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century by Iain Bruce 9780745327365
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to begin building a successful socialist state, but Western... -
Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic by Mobo Gao 9780745399829
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our understandings of China produced? From West to East,... -
Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism by Franz Jakubowski 9780745303895
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Ideology and Superstructure was written at a time - in the inter-war years - when Marxism existed almost entirely in its Stalinst form. Franz Jakubowski set out to reintroduce the centrality of the... -
A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire Donny Gluckstein 9780745328034
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of historical accounts have focused on the regular armies of the allied powers, however, the... -
On the Game: Women and Sex Work by Sophie Day 9780745317588
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day... -
Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis by Douglas Dowd 9780745329437
Booksplease Price: £33.50Inequalities of income, wealth and of power have been with us for millennia. This book is a critique of the counter-productivity of growing economic inequality from the 1980s to today. Douglas Dowd... -
Bolivia: Refounding the Nation by Kepa Artaraz 9780745330891
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30The election of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) to power in Bolivia in 2006 marked a historic break from centuries of foreign domination and indigenous marginalisation. Evo Morales, leader of the... -
Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures by Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro 9780745340401
Booksplease Price: £85.65More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the critique of state socialism is still used to deny alternatives to capitalism, irrespective of global capitalist ecological and social... -
The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat 9780745344232
Booksplease Price: £85.95A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black studies programs are taught at more than 1,300 universities... -
Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy by Ted Honderich 9780745321332
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04This book raises important questions about the uses and ethics of political violence - questions that are all the more pertinent in the light of recent events and the 'war on terror'. What can be... -
Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction by A. Robert Lee 9780745306469
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.86Britain may have ceded empire and colonies, but its colonial past permeates every corner of the land - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation 'immigrant' communities -... -
The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital by Massimo de Angelis 9780745320359
Booksplease Price: £33.50Francis Fukuyama may declare the 'end of history', and neoliberal capital embraces this belief. However, the diverse struggles for commons and dignity around the planet reveal a different reality:... -
In and Against the State: Discussion Notes for Socialists by London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group 9780745341804
Booksplease Price: £85.65Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary... -
What is Islamophobia?: Racism, Social Movements and the State by Narzanin Massoumi 9780745399584
Booksplease Price: £85.65As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater. Critiquing... -
State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives by Christian Krohn-Hansen 9780745324418
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state. The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions...