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Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel by Dominique Edde
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.72In 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: $23.45The 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.90Michael 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: $33.89Historically, 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: $27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $35.10How 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.20The 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $17.81"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: $42.56Booksplease Price: $31.22In 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: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.42The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.Book InformationISBN 9780860915010Author Grant EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint -
Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique by David McNally 9780860916062
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.65In 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... -
Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union by Catherine Hoskyns 9781859840788
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.70During 1996-97, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference is reviewing the competence, institutional structure and working methods of the Union. This book seeks to make an intervention in the... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9780860916758
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.91"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural... -
Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings by Slavoj Zizek 9781844677146
Booksplease Price: $36.52The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for a monumental catastrophe that left an indelible mark on all of... -
In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey 9781859849491
Booksplease Price: $33.55Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings... -
Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson 9780860917106
Booksplease Price: $41.00The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont 9781804298480
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.19"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the... -
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times by Stephen Frosh 9781804299197
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89How to be Real tackles one of the most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world that is so troubling and confusing? We are constantly being told that we must be 'authentic' and 'real' whilst... -
A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger 9781804298565
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to migrant laborers? Why are... -
The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot 9781804296189
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81Why do neoliberal policies continue to be implemented and supported by electoral majorities, despite their obvious economic failures and the ever-increasing tensions they produce in society?To... -
Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing by Alva Gotby 9781804297179
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing - domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to... -
Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth 9781804298947
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting... -
Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class by Tom Cutterham 9781836741459
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89Empire Ablaze tells the story of James Aitken - housepainter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant - as he wandered the colonies on the eve of the American Revolution, and his dramatic mission... -
Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Oliver Gloag 9781836742708
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Olivier Gloag recalls Camus's visceral attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life, which runs through his three major novels, The Stranger, The Plague and The First Man. It examines his... -
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney 9781836742524
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book,... -
The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Bhaskar Sunkara 9781839768637
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $17.54Socialism, the pundits insist, is at best a noble delusion. Good in theory - maybe - but provendisastrous by over a century of experimentation. The Blueprint will present a vision for socialist... -
Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard
Booksplease Price: $18.32Closely 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: $17.11In 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: $27.13In 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: $33.55In 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: $27.54In 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Half 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... -
Justice: The Miners’ Strike, 1984-85 by Dennis Skinner
Booksplease Price: $14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRadical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn (1925-2014) is the pre-eminent... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.36At 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.32Galvano 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.54Big 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 Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV: Political Writings 2, On Revolution 1906-1909 Rosa Luxemburg 9781804290408
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $27.72This 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: $22.96In 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: $20.91Throughout 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... -
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell 9781839762802
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44In 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...