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Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard
Booksplease Price: £14.12Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the... -
Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution by Pascale Casanova
Booksplease Price: £13.26In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary... -
Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis
Booksplease Price: £21.46In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies-particularly those of the United States,... -
European Nations: Explaining Their Formation by Miroslav Hroch
Booksplease Price: £25.87In the history of modern political thought, no other topic has attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation formation, and patriotism. Because of the ever-growing body of literature tackling... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: £21.35In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a 'make do and mend' aesthetic to the growing... -
Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince by Evan Lyon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.78At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply... -
Critique of Taste by Galvano Della Volpe 9780860915652
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory - Critique of Taste. Della Volpe,... -
Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health by Nick Dearden 9781804291450
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60Big Pharma Puts Profits Over PeopleIn Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic... -
The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance by Peter Gowan 9781859842713
Booksplease Price: £25.80The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust's, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV: Political Writings 2, On Revolution 1906-1909 Rosa Luxemburg 9781804290408
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.49This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80... -
Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation by Roman De La Campa 9781859843611
Booksplease Price: £17.80In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is... -
The Consul: Vol II: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time by Ralph Rumney 9781859843956
Booksplease Price: £16.21Throughout his adventurous life, Raloh Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths every avante-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members... -
Reclaiming Reality: Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy by Prof. Roy Bhaskar 9780860919513
Booksplease Price: £21.85This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. It is designed to underlabour both... -
End of the State: A Marxist Reflection on an Idea of Rousseau's by Andrew Levine 9780860918813
Booksplease Price: £18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860918813Author Andrew LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes 9781844674077
Booksplease Price: £21.64In the dozen years since the Columbine High School shootings, school violence has fallen steadily. Yet, as Annette Fuentes visits schools across America she finds metal detectors and drug tests for... -
Cultures in Babylon: Feminism from Black Britain to African America by Hazel V Carby 9781804295717
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects,... -
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell 9781839762802
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and... -
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays by Isaac Deutscher 9781786630827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.75In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he... -
Loved Egyptian Night: The Meaning of the Arab Spring by Hugh Roberts 9781839768835
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and... -
Fragments against My Ruin: A Life Farrukh Dhondy 9781804295243
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen... -
Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists and Other Essays by etc. 9780860919568
Booksplease Price: £24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860919568Author etc.Format PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and... -
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert 9781804296387
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of... -
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by Dan Hancox 9781804294499
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42*A brilliant eulogy to the power and joy of the human throng* Will Davies, author of The Happiness IndustryDespite what politicians, philosophers and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd... -
Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula by Gail Day 9781804295045
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.20This acute and overarching analysis of Allan Sekula's documentary poetics illuminates his critique of neoliberal capitalism through photography, film and prose. The authors trace surprising paths... -
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham 9781836742531
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of fem-inist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust... -
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee 9781839766619
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five... -
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm 9781804299906
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of... -
Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel by Dominique Edde
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.96In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most... -
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Booksplease Price: £18.18The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by... -
What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City by Michael Sorkin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.75Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city... -
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics by Nancy Fraser
Booksplease Price: £26.42Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focused primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of... -
The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers by John Sturrock
Booksplease Price: £21.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.14How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation... -
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group by Brixton Black Women's Group 9781804291979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.81"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?"Speak Out brings together the... -
The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781844677726
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.42In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a... -
Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Since 1975 by Grant Evans 9780860915010
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.30The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.Book InformationISBN 9780860915010Author Grant EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso... -
Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique by David McNally 9780860916062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.20In this book, McNally develops a critique of market socialism by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy. He ranges from Adam Smith to Malthus and concludes with an incisive...