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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill
    What We Owe The Future - by William MacAskill

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861546138 | ISBN 10: 086154613x

    The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it.  In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively inf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal
    Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care - by Lynne Segal

    £17.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804292945 | ISBN 10: 180429294x

    What's left to say, to keep hope alive today?  Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?  Questions of care, intimac ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn by Michael Chessum
    This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn - by Michael Chessum

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780755641284 | ISBN 10: 0755641280

    The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives. Looking to escape a future of rising debt, falling living standards and climate meltdown, a set of movements were born across the globe, led by students, workers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence by Wende Marshall & Matt Meyer
    Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence - by Wende Marshall & Matt Meyer

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781988832999 | ISBN 10: 1988832993

    Insurrectionary Uprisings is a compendium of essays that explore what it will take to win a world based on love and justice. From historical writing, including Thoreau, Gandhi and Arendt, to essays that address the multiple crises we face in the 21s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yoga as Resistance: Equity and Inclusion On and Off the Mat by Dr Stacie CC Graham
    Yoga as Resistance: Equity and Inclusion On and Off the Mat - by Dr Stacie CC Graham

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786786401 | ISBN 10: 1786786400

    This book's mission is to empower yoga practitioners and professionals to align their practice on the mat with their lives off the mat. Yoga as Resistance outlines a dynamic programme of social justice reform within the yoga industry.   The m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope is a Verb: Six Steps to Radical Optimism When the World Seems Broken by Emily Ehlers
    Hope is a Verb: Six Steps to Radical Optimism When the World Seems Broken - by Emily Ehlers

    £12.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911668176 | ISBN 10: 191166817x

    For readers of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, a gift book for an era of global anxiety.  When the world feels uncertain, we need hope, humour and meaningful action. Hope Is a Verb is the ideal handbook for anyone freaked out about th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Rules for Rebellion: Let
    Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World Ourselves - by Sophie Walker

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785786860 | ISBN 10: 1785786865

    Had enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.   Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard) Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to inco ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
    How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division - by Elif Shafak

    £4.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788165723 | ISBN 10: 1788165721

    It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?  In this beautifu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dare To Be Great: Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World by Polly Higgins
    Dare To Be Great: Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World - by Polly Higgins

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780750994101 | ISBN 10: 075099410x

    'I know it may not yet look like it, but we are sowing the seeds of greatness for countless generations to come. That is the Great Work of our times. Yours and mine.'  This is a book unlike any other.  It does not tell you what you mu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
    Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being - by Paul Mason

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141986722 | ISBN 10: 0141986727

    A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism.  How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whose Story is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
    Whose Story is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters - by Rebecca Solnit

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783785438 | ISBN 10: 1783785438

    Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own cent ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee
    There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years - by Mike Berners-Lee

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781108439589 | ISBN 10: 1108439586

    Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Know There Are So Many of You by Alain Badiou
    I Know There Are So Many of You - by Alain Badiou

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509532605 | ISBN 10: 1509532609

    The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms - by Harry Leslie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472123473 | ISBN 10: 1472123476

    Don't Let My Past Be Your Future, Harry Leslie Smith's follow-up to Harry's Last Stand, is both a survival guide for today's generations and a memoir about persevering through difficult times with one's dignity and optimism intact.  THIS A CA ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal
    Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy - by Lynne Segal

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786631558 | ISBN 10: 1786631555

    What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together.   Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek
    The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously - by Slavoj Žižek

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986098 | ISBN 10: 0141986093

    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.   Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have ... 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 No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
    No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics - by Naomi Klein

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986791 | ISBN 10: 0141986794

    Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age.  Remember ... more

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  • Cover image of book Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters by Various artists
    Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters - by Various artists

    £21.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781616896928 | ISBN 10: 1616896922

    The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
    Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783723 | ISBN 10: 1784783722

    Hold Everything Dear is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, it is a profound meditation on what po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous by Marco Deseriis
    Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous - by Marco Deseriis

    £20.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780816694877 | ISBN 10: 0816694877

    The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation.   Bridging gaps among the history of the labor movement, cinema stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Open Tribe by Sue Goss
    The Open Tribe - by Sue Goss

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909831100 | ISBN 10: 1909831107

    This book asks whether or not it is possible to combine the values of solidarity and belonging with curiosity and openness towards difference. Is it possible to create an ‘Open Tribe’?   As markets become global, and social welfare is cut back ... more

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  • Cover image of book Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We
    Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy - by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781577319726 | ISBN 10: 1577319729

    The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny
    Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent - by Laurie Penny

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745332086 | ISBN 10: 0745332080

    In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppress ... more

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  • Cover image of book Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappe
    Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad - by Frances Moore Lappe

    £11.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780979414244 | ISBN 10: 0979414245

    Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappé — author of sixteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet — distills her world-spanning exp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The State of the World Atlas: The Bestselling Survey of Current Events and Global Trends by Dan Smith
    The State of the World Atlas: The Bestselling Survey of Current Events and Global Trends - by Dan Smith

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844075737 | ISBN 10: 1844075737

    Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.  * The world's car population has grown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in the World is Restoring Grace, Justice & Beauty... by Paul Hawken
    Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in the World is Restoring Grace, Justice & Beauty... - by Paul Hawken

    £15.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780143113652 | ISBN 10: 0143113658

    Across the planet groups ranging from neighborhood associations to well-funded international organizations are confronting issues like the destruction of the environment, the abuses of free-market fundamentalism, social justice, and the loss of indig ... more

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