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Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady (Abridged)
Paperback,
07/05/2009,
£14.99
£5.99
In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party to her eleven tumultuous years in Downing Street and her eventual removal from power.
Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S.
Hardback,
03/10/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Fearless Labour MP Jess Phillips inspires us to speak out against injustices.
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive hospital diaries from the author of million-copy hit This is Going to Hurt
Hardback,
15/10/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
From the multi-award-winning and million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, a brand new gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.
Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Hardback,
24/10/2019,
£7.99
£7.19
'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial TimesThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£10.99
£9.89
If we care about inequality, we have to talk about private schools
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Paperback,
16/11/2006,
£13.99
£12.59
Writing for a wide audience, Harvey here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. He constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for more socially just alternatives.
Times World Atlas Puzzle Book: Put your knowledge of the world to the ultimate test
Paperback,
19/09/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
The ultimate geographical challenge from the world's leading atlas makers. World mapping quizzes and puzzles to test how well you know your countries, flags and capital cities
Capital and Ideology
Hardback,
10/03/2020,
£31.95
£28.76
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system.
Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
Hardback,
29/11/2019,
£31.95
£28.76
Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls.
Injustice: Vintage Minis
Paperback,
05/04/2018,
£3.50
£3.15
In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago, and unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death - to paint a portrait of insurmountable oppression.
War: Vintage Minis
Paperback,
05/04/2018,
£3.50
£3.15
Selected from the books Birdsong, A Possible Life and A Week in December by Sebastian FaulksVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Home by Salman RushdieFatherhood by Karl Ove KnausgaardWork by Joseph HellerDreams by Sigmund Freud
Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor
Paperback,
26/10/2011,
£27.20
£24.48
Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor
Principle of Hope: Volume 1
Paperback,
26/05/1995,
£45.00
£40.50
This text is part of a three-volume critical history of the utopian vision and an exploration of the possible reality of utopia. This first volume lays the foundations of the philosophy of process and introduces the idea of the "not-yet-conscious."
Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner
Hardback,
06/02/2020,
£16.99
£15.29
A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons
Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival
Paperback,
12/03/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE
'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVER
I'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say.
Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Paperback,
13/11/2018,
£35.00
£31.50
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. It searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections.
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?
Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class View
Paperback,
29/09/2017,
£14.00
£12.60
Sonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside.
1312: Among the Ultras: A journey with the world's most extreme fans
Hardback,
12/03/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme fandom and politics is also one of the largest youth movements in the world.
Fair Play
Paperback,
10/10/2011,
£27.99
£25.19
Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media, this reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice.
The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-truth Politics
Hardback,
11/06/2020,
£21.99
£19.79
The Reimagined Party: Democracy, Change and the Public
Paperback,
10/06/2020,
£17.99
£16.19
This book offers unprecedented insight into what the public want from parties. Presenting new data on public perceptions and desires, it diagnoses a wish for re-imagined parties, and considers how parties may wish to respond. -- .
The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
Paperback,
18/06/2020,
£12.99
£11.69
Angrynomics
Paperback,
17/06/2020,
£12.99
£11.69
A book for anyone anxious, worried - or angry - about the mismatch between how they experience the world with its increasing day to day pressures, and the model used by economics to explain and justify it.
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
Paperback,
01/09/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
We feel more divided than ever.; This riveting analysis tells you why.
Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory: Martyrdom, Revolution, and Forging National Identities
Paperback,
06/08/2020,
£21.99
£19.79
Green Political Thought 4ed
Paperback,
15/03/2007,
£37.99
£34.19
Describes and assesses the political ideology of 'ecologism', and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the 'environmentalism' of mainstream politics. This book presents an examination of the relationship between ecologism and other political ideologies, the philosophical basis of ecological thinking, and others.
Debating Empire
Paperback,
30/10/2003,
£13.99
£12.59
This text draws together all the debate surrounding Hardt and Negri's "Empire", which has been hailed as a latter day "Communist Manifesto" and as a turning point for the left, with the authors responding to their questions and criticisms.
History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Paperback,
23/04/2000,
£31.25
£28.13
Focuses on medieval and Renaissance thinkers and includes a discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates.
History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity
Paperback,
22/04/2000,
£34.25
£30.83
Janet Colemana s two volume history of European political theorising, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction which many have been waiting for.
Modern Political Ideologies 3ed
Paperback,
31/03/2009,
£34.25
£30.83
"A marvellous achievement. It traces a wide constellation of overlapping ideas, theories, arguments and thinkers, producing a comprehensive map of modern ideologies, but with the concerns of political theory at its core. It will serve as a central text for undergraduate courses and a distinctive point of reference for political theorists.
Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Marx
Paperback,
10/05/2002,
£36.99
£33.29
The interpretive literature in the history of political thought is now vast, complex and esoteric, posing as much a barrier to the understanding of the undergraduate student as it offers assistance.
Political Ideologies: A Reader and Guide
Paperback,
01/02/2005,
£34.99
£31.49
This volume contains a large and diverse collection of the political writings and texts that have been central to the major ideological traditions in Western political life. These passages are interspersed with editorial commentaries that offer a general historical introduction to each thinker and the particular text, and highlight key thematic features of the passages.
Political Ideology Today 2ed
Paperback,
10/11/2001,
£10.99
£9.89
Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism. -- .
Political Thinkers 3ed
Paperback,
18/05/2017,
£34.99
£31.49
The most comprehensive introduction to the greatest political thinkers written by a team of international experts.
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