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  • Cover image of book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781847927279 | ISBN 10: 1847927270

    Capitalism is dead. The #1 bestselling economist shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.  ‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Everyone should read it. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH  In his boldest and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet... by Nancy Fraser
    Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet... - by Nancy Fraser

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761232 | ISBN 10: 1839761237

    A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world.  Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and ra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
    Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion - by Tansy E. Hoskins

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745346618 | ISBN 10: 0745346618

    *Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*  Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) by Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
    Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) - by Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786633149 | ISBN 10: 1786633140

    How did we come to live in a world dominated by big tech and finance?   Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?   We cannot change an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller
    The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism - by Adrienne Buller

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526162632 | ISBN 10: 1526162636

    Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing t ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer by Lori Fox
    This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer - by Lori Fox

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551528779 | ISBN 10: 1551528770

    A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical.   Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? by Brett Christophers
    Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? - by Brett Christophers

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739757 | ISBN 10: 1788739752

    How did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?   In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, provides a forensic examination of twenty-first-century capitalism. Bret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
    Automation and the Future of Work - by Aaron Benanav

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761324 | ISBN 10: 1839761326

    A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market.  In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
    Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - by James Davies

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786499875 | ISBN 10: 1786499878

    A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and Dope Sick.  In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Phil Jones
    Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - by Phil Jones

    £10.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839760433 | ISBN 10: 1839760435

    The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.   We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
    Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745340913 | ISBN 10: 0745340911

    'Work hard, get paid.'   It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.   For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
    The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World - by Kehinde Andrews

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241437445 | ISBN 10: 024143744x

    The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - by Cory Doctorow

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781736205907 | ISBN 10: 1736205900

    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism was first published online in August, where it was an instant hit with readers, scholars, and critics alike.   For years now, we've been hearing about the ills of surveillance capitalism - the business o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
    Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance - by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241482612 | ISBN 10: 0241482615

    An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'.   Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Against Amazon and Other Essays by Jorge Carrion
    Against Amazon and Other Essays - by Jorge Carrion

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781771963039 | ISBN 10: 1771963034

    A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.   Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese
    The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy - by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

    £19.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745341484 | ISBN 10: 0745341489

    Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us by David Whyte
    Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us - by David Whyte

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526146984 | ISBN 10: 1526146983

    We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable.   Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
    Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto - by Aaron Bastani

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632

    A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.  In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu
    Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism - by Wendy Liu

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912248704 | ISBN 10: 1912248700

    Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good.   Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. Wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
    Capital and Ideology - by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

    £31.95   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780674980822 | ISBN 10: 0674980824

    The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.  Thomas Piketty’s bestselli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin by Silvia Frederici
    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin - by Silvia Frederici

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637068 | ISBN 10: 1629637068

    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements — all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a v ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine

    £3.50      (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781621065265 | ISBN 10: 162106526x

    When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
    Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation - by Grace Blakeley

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912248377 | ISBN 10: 1912248379

    For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.   In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
    How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century - by Erik Olin Wright

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788736053 | ISBN 10: 1788736052

    What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?  Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values — equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, commun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
    Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance - by Raquel Rolnik

    £19.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788731607 | ISBN 10: 1788731603

    How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis.   The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperat ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)
    After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response - by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339580 | ISBN 10: 0745339581

    On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by gov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee
    Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence - by Kristen Ghodsee

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529110579 | ISBN 10: 1529110572

    The argument of this book can be summed up succinctly: unregulated capitalism is bad for women, and if we adopt some ideas from socialism, women will have better lives.  If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labour co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705756 | ISBN 10: 1784705756

    Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world.  Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Battle For Paradise Puerto Rico: Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein
    The Battle For Paradise Puerto Rico: Takes on the Disaster Capitalists - by Naomi Klein

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608463572 | ISBN 10: 1608463575

    "We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations - by Radha D'Souza

    £19.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745335414 | ISBN 10: 0745335411

    Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the le ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
    The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - by George Monbiot

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786632890 | ISBN 10: 1786632896

    Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? by Peter Dauvergne
    Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? - by Peter Dauvergne

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509524013 | ISBN 10: 1509524010

    Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy - by Jonathan Taplin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509847709 | ISBN 10: 1509847707

    LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD   Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Much Stuff: Capitalism in Crisis by Kozo Yamamura
    Too Much Stuff: Capitalism in Crisis - by Kozo Yamamura

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447335696 | ISBN 10: 1447335694

    Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and increased money supply, produce only wider income disparity and inequality?   We now live in a n ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
    How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System - by Wolfgang Streeck

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786632982 | ISBN 10: 1786632985

    The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper.  After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today by Jay Naidoo
    Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today - by Jay Naidoo

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781776091805 | ISBN 10: 1776091809

    Unless there is significant change, the world is heading for an explosion. The growing gap between rich and poor is dangerous and unsustainable. The plundering of resources is damaging our planet. Something has to be done.   In this book, Jay ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and its Critics by Anselm Jappe
    The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and its Critics - by Anselm Jappe

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785355813 | ISBN 10: 1785355813

    The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately brin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thomas Piketty
    Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction - by Stephan Kaufmann and Ingo Stützle, translated by Alexander Locascio

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784786144 | ISBN 10: 1784786144

    An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work.   US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major intern ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
    And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784704117 | ISBN 10: 1784704113

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER � The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe�s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, �the emerging rock st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
    Platform Capitalism - by Nick Srnicek

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509504879 | ISBN 10: 1509504877

    What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
    One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization - by Peter Singer

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780300196054 | ISBN 10: 0300196059

    One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World.  Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
    The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being - by William Davies

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780951 | ISBN 10: 1784780952

    Why are we so interested in measuring happiness?   What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world’s leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a ‘chief happiness officer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women
    Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression - by Christine Delphy

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782504 | ISBN 10: 1784782505

    Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism.   Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
    Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work - by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786229 | ISBN 10: 1784786225

    A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work.  Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
    The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay - by Guy Standing

    £17.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900440 | ISBN 10: 1785900447

    There is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but have constructed the most unfree market system ever. It is corrupt because income is channelled to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
    Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future - by Paul Mason

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141975290 | ISBN 10: 0141975296

    From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - eco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations by Brandon L. Garrett
    Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations - by Brandon L. Garrett

    £16.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780674659919 | ISBN 10: 0674659910

    American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
    The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - by John Perkins

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033841 | ISBN 10: 1785033840

    False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
    The Country and the City - by Raymond Williams

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784870829 | ISBN 10: 178487082x

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRISTRAM HUNT   Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
    Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782061 | ISBN 10: 1784782068

    How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
    Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism - by Sven Beckert

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141979984 | ISBN 10: 0141979984

    Winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize Finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature  For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Understanding Class by Erik Olin Wright
    Understanding Class - by Erik Olin Wright

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689455 | ISBN 10: 1781689458

    A leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism.   Few ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
    Capitalism: A Ghost Story - by Arundhati Roy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780944 | ISBN 10: 1784780944

    An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracya nation of 1.2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buddha on Wall Street: What
    The Buddha on Wall Street: What's Wrong with Capitalism and What to Do About it - by Vaddhaka Linn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909314443 | ISBN 10: 1909314447

    After his Enlightenment the Buddha set out to help liberate the individual, and create a society free from suffering. The economic resources now exist to offer a realistic possibility of providing everyone with decent food, shelter, work and leisure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Drop: The Politics of Water by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes
    The Last Drop: The Politics of Water - by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334912 | ISBN 10: 0745334911

    Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are tes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power by Susan George
    Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power - by Susan George

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745697826 | ISBN 10: 0745697828

    Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished by Steve Tombs & David Whyte
    The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished - by Steve Tombs & David Whyte

    £25.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780415556378 | ISBN 10: 0415556376

    Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future by Derek Wall
    Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future - by Derek Wall

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335070 | ISBN 10: 0745335071

    There is no alternative has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley
    Drug War Capitalism - by Dawn Paley

    £13.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849351935 | ISBN 10: 1849351937

    The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control. In Drug War Capitalism, Dawn Paley lays bare the mechanisms through which state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies by Michael Parenti
    Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies - by Michael Parenti

    £15.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781612056623 | ISBN 10: 1612056628

    From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care, from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global environment these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary economic life that Profit Pathology takes on. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming
    The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself - by Peter Fleming

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334868 | ISBN 10: 0745334865

    There was once a time when work was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of l ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
    The New Prophets of Capital - by Nicole Aschoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688106 | ISBN 10: 1781688109

    A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah.   As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has becom ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
    This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241956182 | ISBN 10: 0241956188

    Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain
    Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists - by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262574 | ISBN 10: 1780262574

    Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusio ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell
    A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain - by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099578314 | ISBN 10: 009957831x

    Q. Whats worth 2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britains influence industry   The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory its happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj iek
    Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj iek

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241004968 | ISBN 10: 0241004969

    In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.   There is obviously trouble in the global capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism and Its Alternatives by Chris Rogers
    Capitalism and Its Alternatives - by Chris Rogers

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780327365 | ISBN 10: 1780327366

    The global economic crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organizing production, distribution and exchange. Political elites have argued that capitalism is not fundamentally pernicious or crisis-prone and can be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Intelligent Woman
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism - by George Bernard Shaw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847493330 | ISBN 10: 1847493335

    As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were "c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity by Deric Shannon (Editor)
    The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity - by Deric Shannon (Editor)

    £18.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849351867 | ISBN 10: 1849351864

    The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book SOS Alternatives to Capitalism by Richard Swift
    SOS Alternatives to Capitalism - by Richard Swift

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780261706 | ISBN 10: 1780261705

    Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism by Michael Albert
    Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism - by Michael Albert

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780325620 | ISBN 10: 1780325622

    Something is profoundly wrong with capitalist globalization, as neo-liberal policies continue to vastly increase the disparity between rich and poor. 'What is the alternative?' is a question challenging activists around the world.  Michael Alber ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy by John Bellamy Foster
    The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy - by John Bellamy Foster

    £17.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781583674413 | ISBN 10: 1583674411

    In 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital, a monumental work of economic theory and social criticism that sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of their time. Their theory, and its continuing elaboration by Sweezy, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Culture and Resistance in a Post-Crash World by Max Haiven
    Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Culture and Resistance in a Post-Crash World - by Max Haiven

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329529 | ISBN 10: 1780329520

    Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Capitalism Failed the Arab World by Richard Javad Heydarian
    How Capitalism Failed the Arab World - by Richard Javad Heydarian

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329574 | ISBN 10: 1780329571

    Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of yo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism by Ole Bjerg
    Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism - by Ole Bjerg

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781682654 | ISBN 10: 1781682658

    What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes it? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? "Explosive ... an absolutely indispensable guide through the labyrinth of economics."(Slavoj iek) I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
    Utopia or Bust - by Benjamin Kunkel

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683279 | ISBN 10: 1781683271

    "For anyone who cares about historical necessity, the crisis of capitalism, and our fate."(Rachel Kushner) After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism
    Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity - by Walden Bello

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780320458 | ISBN 10: 1780320450

    In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All by Costas Lapavitsas
    Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All - by Costas Lapavitsas

    £20.00   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681411 | ISBN 10: 1781681414

    Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing defines financialization in terms of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism by Kieran Allen and Brian O
    Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism - by Kieran Allen and Brian O' Boyle

    £18.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745334011 | ISBN 10: 0745334016

    Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the countrys ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.   In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
    The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire - by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681367 | ISBN 10: 1781681368

    A groundbreaking account of America's role in global capitalism.   The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anticapitalism: A Beginner
    Anticapitalism: A Beginner's Guide - by Simon Tormey

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780742502 | ISBN 10: 1780742509

    The financial crisis, bank bailouts, and the dash to austerity have breathed new life into protest movements across the globe, and brought anti-capitalist ideas to the mainstream. But what does it mean to be anti-capitalist? And where is anti-capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska
    From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland - by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska

    £15.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781583672969 | ISBN 10: 1583672966

    In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to really-existing socialism that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themse ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accidental Capitalist: A People
    The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China - by Behzad Yaghmaian

    £22.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332307 | ISBN 10: 0745332307

    In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.  Through months of sustained interpersonal conta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Structural Genocide by Garry Leech
    Capitalism: A Structural Genocide - by Garry Leech

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780321998 | ISBN 10: 1780321996

    In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Obama
    Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few - by Jack Rasmus

    £21.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332185 | ISBN 10: 0745332188

    Three years after his election, Barack Obama presides over a deep economic malaise. Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration has failed to deliver economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals whi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
    Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain - by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961049 | ISBN 10: 0241961041

    'Dial M for Murdoch uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman
    Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies - by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman

    £24.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331652 | ISBN 10: 0745331653

    The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book 23 Things They Don
    23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - by Ha-Joon Chang

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141047973 | ISBN 10: 0141047976

    In 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in.  There's no such thing as a 'free' market   Globalization isn't making the worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton
    Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society - by Will Hutton

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349121482 | ISBN 10: 0349121486

    The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. Thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism by Kieran Allen
    Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism - by Kieran Allen

    £19.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330020 | ISBN 10: 0745330029

    If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult by Sasha Lilley (Editor)
    Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult - by Sasha Lilley (Editor)

    £14.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780850366778 | ISBN 10: 0850366771

    Capitalism is stumbling, the empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing.  Many people want to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. This book gets to the heart of the matter: the nature of capi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ecological Rift: Capitalism
    The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth - by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York

    £14.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781583672181 | ISBN 10: 1583672184

    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
    Living in the End Times - by Slavoj Zizek

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677023 | ISBN 10: 1844677028

    Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the four riders of the apocalypse. There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Inc. - How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff
    Life Inc. - How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back - by Douglas Rushkoff

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099516699 | ISBN 10: 0099516691

    A timely, provocative and urgent look at how our world has become slowly but surely corporatised.  Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the respons ... more

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  • Cover image of book Global History: A View from the South by Samir Amin
    Global History: A View from the South - by Samir Amin

    £14.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906387969 | ISBN 10: 1906387966

    Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, this book looks at the ancient world system and how i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Social Work in a Globalizing World by Lena Dominelli
    Social Work in a Globalizing World - by Lena Dominelli

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745640891 | ISBN 10: 0745640893

    This inspiring and stimulating book confronts contemporary challenges facing social workers. Many of the forms of human, social and environmental degradation addressed arise from social problems that have persisted over time, such as social works ow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World by Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
    Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World - by Kolya Abramsky (Editor)

    £18.00   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849350051 | ISBN 10: 1849350051

    As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector - and for what purposes - is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book ZERO by Chris O
    ZERO - by Chris O'Connell

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781840028812 | ISBN 10: 1840028815

    'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?' Chaotic, fast, and furious, ZERO is the new play fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women
    Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World - by Hester Eisenstein

    £31.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781594516603 | ISBN 10: 159451660x

    In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the worlds ruling elites utilize womens labor and the ideas of womens liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crack Capitalism by John Holloway
    Crack Capitalism - by John Holloway

    £24.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745330082 | ISBN 10: 0745330088

    Crack Capitalism argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of 'cracks' in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction by Franois Houtart
    Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction - by Franois Houtart

    £27.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745330129 | ISBN 10: 0745330126

    Since they were heralded as a key weapon in the fight against climate change, agrofuels have been criticised heavily for doing more harm than good due to deforestation and stealing agricultural land essential to farmers in the developing world. This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World by Alex Callinicos
    Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World - by Alex Callinicos

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745648767 | ISBN 10: 0745648762

    Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Money and Soul: The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Captialism by Per Espen Stoknes
    Money and Soul: The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Captialism - by Per Espen Stoknes

    £12.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781900322461 | ISBN 10: 1900322463

    Many people feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche (or soul) are bitter enemies do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? This book traces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the feelings that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil and Piero
    Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide - by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil and Piero

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848310551 | ISBN 10: 1848310552

    Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships.   Tracing capitalism from its beginning to the pres ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives by David Craig and Matthew Elliott
    The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives - by David Craig and Matthew Elliott

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847945709 | ISBN 10: 1847945708

    As the June 2009 EU Elections approach, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name.  The EU costs us over GBP700 billion a year - an incredible GBP1500 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola by Mark Thomas
    Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola - by Mark Thomas

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091927042 | ISBN 10: 0091927048

    Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, and even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. F ... more

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  • Cover image of book Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State by Colin Leys
    Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State - by Colin Leys

    £11.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780850365900 | ISBN 10: 0850365902

    The dream of contemporary capitalism is that everything should become a terrain of profitable enterprise, including most of what has been seen hitherto as the business of government.   Like total war, total capitalism demands the subordinatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great City Academy Fraud by Francis Beckett
    The Great City Academy Fraud - by Francis Beckett

    £30.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780826495136 | ISBN 10: 0826495133

    This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why It Matters by Andrew Simms
    Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why It Matters - by Andrew Simms

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845295110 | ISBN 10: 1845295110

    You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, direc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman
    The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower - by Charles Fishman

    £11.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141019796 | ISBN 10: 0141019794

    Wal-Mart is the biggest company on earth, ever. Around 7.2 billion people shop there in a year more than one visit for every person on the planet. Its expanding across the globe from Brazil to Eastern Europe. And it has the power to change our wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ripped and Torn: Levi
    Ripped and Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Bue Jean Dream - by Amaranta Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091900847 | ISBN 10: 0091900840

    When Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America - her brief to befriend local teenagers and report back on their lives - she saw it as a means to explore a continent she loved. But as time passed and she witnessed first-hand ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations by David E. Lowes
    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations - by David E. Lowes

    £24.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842776834 | ISBN 10: 1842776835

    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher D. Cook
    Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us - by Christopher D. Cook

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580849 | ISBN 10: 1595580840

    If we are what we eat, then we are not in good shape - as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful investigation of the food industry. Diet for a Dead Planet takes us beyond fast food and GMOs to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Field Guide to the Global Economy by Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh
    Field Guide to the Global Economy - by Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh

    £15.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849563 | ISBN 10: 1565849566

    This fully-updated and expanded second edition of Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy. Illustrated throughout with charts, graphs, and cartoons, the book docume ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
    The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141011455 | ISBN 10: 0141011459

    Until 2001, Enron could do no wrong. Feared by rivals and worshipped by investors, its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer named Bethany McLean wrote an article entitled 'Is Enron overpriced?' - and the company fell apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning by Donald G. Reid
    Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning - by Donald G. Reid

    £27.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780745319988 | ISBN 10: 074531998x

    Tourism is booming worldwide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
    Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World - by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

    £25.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781844070244 | ISBN 10: 1844070247

    The world's most fundamental and indispensable resource - fresh water - is becoming scarcer, fast. It is now big business and a preserve of the wealthy."In this book, we tell the story of the world's growing fresh water crisis, the corporate assault ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trust Us, We
    Trust Us, We'Re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future - by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber

    £12.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781585421398 | ISBN 10: 1585421391

    The book that unmasks the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data and manufactured facts. "A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effe ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ashwin Desai
    We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa - by Ashwin Desai

    £15.95   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781583670507 | ISBN 10: 1583670505

    When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material i ... more

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