Super Summer Sale - US

Alt-Right

From 4chan to the White House

Mike Wendling

A sharp investigation into the dark path of the Alt-Right.

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Rojava

Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds

Thomas Schmidinger

The history and politics of Syrian Kurdistan, with a special focus on the revolution in Rojava.

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A Suffragette in America

Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change

E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Katherine Connelly

The story of one of Britain's most famous radicals visiting the 'Land of the Free'

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Manufacturing the Enemy

The Media War Against Cuba

Keith Bolender

How has the US media constructed our understanding of Cuba?

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Overripe Economy

American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy

Alan Nasser

This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism

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Long Road to Harpers Ferry

The Rise of the First American Left

Mark A. Lause

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

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The Educated Underclass

Students and the Promise of Social Mobility

Gary Roth

What's the point of a university education in a world without enough jobs?

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The Syrian Revolution

Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death

Yasser Munif

A contemporary history of political violence and grassroots struggles in Syria since 2011

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Talking to North Korea

Ending the Nuclear Standoff

James Glyn Ford

There are many roads to war, but only one path to peace in North Korea

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Martin Monath

A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers

Nathaniel Flakin

The fascinating story of a young Jewish socialist who risked everything to foment revolution amongst German soldiers in occupied France.

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A Jewdas Haggadah

Rabbi Geoffrey Cohen Rabbi, Jewdas

A satirical, political and downright hilarious take on a Jewish tradition

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A People's History of the German Revolution

1918-19

William A. Pelz, Mario Kessler

A myth-busting popular history of the German Revolution focusing on the roles of women, workers and ordinary people

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Under the Cover of Chaos

Trump and the Battle for the American Right

Lawrence Grossberg

A cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.

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Selling Apartheid

South Africa's Global Propaganda War

Ron Nixon

Tells the story of South Africa's shocking propaganda campaign which sold apartheid across the world

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Disarming Doomsday

The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima

Becky Alexis-Martin

A radical geography of nuclear warfare.

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Solidarity

Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights

Steve Striffler

The first comprehensive history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the present day.

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Partisan Ruptures

Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia

Gal Kirn, Borut Praper

A history of twentieth-century Yugoslavia and the ruptures that shaped it

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Keenie Meenie

The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes

Phil Miller

An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.

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Surplus Citizens

Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis

Dimitra Kotouza

How grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisis

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Mohandas Gandhi

Experiments in Civil Disobedience

Talat Ahmed

A new critical biography highlighting the contradictions in Gandhi's non-violent philosophy.

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When Protest Becomes Crime

Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies

Carolijn Terwindt

How our political and legal systems criminalise protesters

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Digital Demagogue

Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Christian Fuchs

An analytical intervention into Trumpology, Twitter and authoritarianism.

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Brazil

Neoliberalism versus Democracy

Alfredo Saad-Filho, Lecio Morais

A political analysis of the paradox of modern-day Brazil, charting the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism.

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Monitored

Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

Peter Bloom

The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them?

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Deepening Divides

How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World

Didier Fassin

A non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.

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Sara

Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Sakine Cansiz, Janet Biehl

The second instalment of the iconic memoirs of one of the first female fighters of the PKK

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What's Wrong with Rights?

Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

Radha D'Souza

A critique of liberal rights exposing the paradox between 'good' capitalism and the reality of its actions.

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Gadget Consciousness

Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media

Joss Hands

Investigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.

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Making Workers

Radical Geographies of Education

Katharyne Mitchell

Shines a light on how modern education shapes students into becoming compliant workers.

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Small is Necessary

Shared Living on a Shared Planet

Anitra Nelson

Amidst crisis and fragmentation, the need for sociable, practical and sustainable housing is manifest.

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Shut Down the Business School

What's Wrong with Management Education

Martin Parker

A clarion call to shut down the business school!

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The Unchosen

The Lives of Israel's New Others

Mya Guarnieri Jaradat

An intimate look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel

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England's Discontents

Political Cultures and National Identities

Mike Wayne

How England's political cultures are being eroded by neoliberalism

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Outsourced Empire

How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

Andrew Thomson

The full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.

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The Message is Murder

Substrates of Computational Capital

Jonathan Beller

A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.

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Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans

Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse

James Crossley

Christianity's multifaceted role in English political discourse.

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Cracks in the Wall

Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel

Ben White

A sharp analysis of the widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars of support

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Faith and Resistance

The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon

Sarah Marusek

How is decolonial resistance evolving in Lebanon and the Middle East?

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Egypt

Contested Revolution

Philip Marfleet

A compelling account of the years of political struggle in Egypt unfolding from January 2011 to the summer of 2015

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Resist the Punitive State

Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons

Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener, Rich Moth

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

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The Privatization of Israeli Security

Shir Hever

Charts the rise of neoliberal Israel to show how Israeli security elites turn violence into a commodity.

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Ground Down by Growth

Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Vikramaditya Thakur, Jayaseelan Raj

How do India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global economy?

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Durkheim

A Critical Introduction

Kieran Allen, Brian O’Boyle

A critical introduction to the sociology and politics of Emile Durkheim

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John Maclean

Hero of Red Clydeside

Henry Bell

A literary biography of one of the early heroes of radical Scottish Independence.

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Cruel Harvest

US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade

Julien Mercille

The argument against narco-terrorism in Afghanistan

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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque

A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace

Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah, Bart Klem, Benedikt Korf, Kalinga Tudor Silva

A study of the contradictory role of religion in Sri Lanka as a force that is both stabilising whilst also acting as a source of conflict.

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Decent Capitalism

A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies

Sebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr, Christian Kellermann

Sets out realistic alternatives to the neoliberal capitalism that caused the global crisis

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Partitioning Palestine

Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

John Strawson

Argues that the plight of Palestine remains a colonial issue, and that legal tools are used to undermine Palestinian self-determination.

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Making the World Safe for Capitalism

How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed

Christopher Doran

A fresh take on the causes of the 2003 Iraq war. Provides a radical new perspective based on analysis of trends in global political economy.

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The African American Experience in Cyberspace

A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History

Abdul Alkalimat

Pocket-sized guide to the best websites on Black interest and culture

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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq

Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, Tareq Y. Ismael

Argues that destruction of Iraqi culture was aimed at remaking Iraq into a US client state

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James Baldwin

Living in Fire

Bill V. Mullen

The biography of one of the world's most influential African-American writers

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The Capitalist University

The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945

Henry Heller

Unique and accessible history of higher education in the US which reveals its intimate relationship with American capitalism

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Cabin Crew Conflict

The British Airways Dispute 2009-11

Phil Taylor, Sian Moore, Robert Byford, Duncan Holley, Len McCluskey

A compelling oral history of the 2009-11 strike action carried out by cabin crew workers against British Airways.

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Faith and Charity

Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa

Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Louis Audet Gosselin, Steven Watts

An innovative perspective on the relationship between religion, civil society and development through the prism of faith-based NGOs in West Africa

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Anthropologies of Value

Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South

Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez, Geir Henning Presterudstuen

An edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life

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Long Time Passing

Mothers Speak About War and Terror

Susan Galleymore

A remarkable portrait of a mother in a time of war

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The Kurds in Turkey

EU Accession and Human Rights

Kerim Yildiz

With an introduction by Chomsky, this is the most up-to-date analysis of the problems faced by Kurds in Turkey.

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Alt-Right

From 4chan to the White House

Rojava

Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds

A Suffragette in America

Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change

Manufacturing the Enemy

The Media War Against Cuba

Overripe Economy

American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy

Long Road to Harpers Ferry

The Rise of the First American Left

The Educated Underclass

Students and the Promise of Social Mobility

The Syrian Revolution

Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death

Talking to North Korea

Ending the Nuclear Standoff

Martin Monath

A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers

A Jewdas Haggadah

A People's History of the German Revolution

1918-19

Under the Cover of Chaos

Trump and the Battle for the American Right

Selling Apartheid

South Africa's Global Propaganda War

Disarming Doomsday

The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima

Solidarity

Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights

Partisan Ruptures

Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia

Keenie Meenie

The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes

Surplus Citizens

Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis

Mohandas Gandhi

Experiments in Civil Disobedience

When Protest Becomes Crime

Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies

Digital Demagogue

Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Brazil

Neoliberalism versus Democracy

Monitored

Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

Deepening Divides

How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World

Sara

Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

What's Wrong with Rights?

Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

Gadget Consciousness

Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media

Making Workers

Radical Geographies of Education

Small is Necessary

Shared Living on a Shared Planet

Shut Down the Business School

What's Wrong with Management Education

The Unchosen

The Lives of Israel's New Others

England's Discontents

Political Cultures and National Identities

Outsourced Empire

How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

The Message is Murder

Substrates of Computational Capital

Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans

Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse

Cracks in the Wall

Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel

Faith and Resistance

The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon