Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. Set the Boy Free
By: Johnny Marr
2.50
Format: 32 pages, ebook
The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more
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2. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
By: Owen Jones
4.09
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more
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"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
3. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
By: Owen Jones
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more
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- economics
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4. The Gallows Pole
By: Benjamin Myers
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more
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5. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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6. Harvest
By: Jim Crace
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a… read more
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7. Aesthetics and Politics
By: Fredric Jameson , Bertolt Brecht , György Lukács , Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare … read more
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8. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
By: David Harvey
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
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10. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
11. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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12. This Is Memorial Device
By: David Keenan
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more
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13. Reflections on the Guillotine
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An essay on capital punishment by the 1957 Nobel Prize winner. read more
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14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
15. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
16. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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17. The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri… read more
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18. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
19. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
20. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
21. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By: Peter Apps
4.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The truth about Grenfell at long last. It is hardly possible to admit it. That the biggest tower bl… read more
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22. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
By: Molly Smith
4.61
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more
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"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
23. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
24. Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
By: Nick Bano
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A radical new intervention into the housing debate in the UK, and what we can do about it Why do l… read more
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25. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right
By: Oliver Eagleton
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more
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26. Tenants
By: Vicky Spratt
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN'Tenants should be … read more
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27. For a Left Populism
By: Chantal Mouffe
3.58
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Wes… read more
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28. The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics
By: Jess Phillips
4.15
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in… read more
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29. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more
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30. Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
By: Matthew Brown
3.70
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up wit… read more
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31. The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis
By: Isaac Rose
4.62
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that… read more
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