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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
RRP: £12.99£10.12THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is dizzying. Here Thomas L. Friedman reveals the tectonic movements that are reshaping our world, how to adapt to... -
Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, power, and how politics really works by Marie Le Conte
RRP: £16.99£11.76'The politics book to be seen with in these febrile times' - The i Newspaper'How facts, rumour and mischief-making become the news we all obsess over' - Tim Shipman'A cracking read! Treat yourself...' - John CraceEver wondered why the indiscretions of... -
Foster on EU Law by Nigel Foster 9780192897961
RRP: £39.99£38.05Foster on EU Law offers an incisive account of the institutions and procedures of the EU alongside focused analysis of core substantive areas. This clear three-part structure provides students with a solid foundation in the mechanisms and applications of... -
AQA AS/A-level Politics Student Guide 2: Politics of the UK by Nick Gallop
£12.69Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: PoliticsFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)Written by experienced teachers Nick Gallop and Paul Fairclough, this Student Guide for Politics:-Identifies the key content... -
Magic of Crystals and Gems: Unlocking the Supernatural Power of Stones by Cerridwen Greenleaf 9781633535336
RRP: £13.99£11.78#1 Best Seller in Crystals Unlock Supernatural PowerIf you like The Crystal Bible or Crystals for Healing, you'll cherish The Magic of Crystals and Gems Practice Practical Magic: Did you know that wearing an amulet of green jade on an interview will help... -
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective by Jacqueline Bhabha
RRP: £35.00£30.74In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice-be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities-has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm,... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: £15.99£11.61There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life... -
The Land Of Short Sentences by Stine Pilgaard 9781912987306
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912987306Author Stine PilgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint World Editions LtdPublisher World Editions Ltd -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522155
RRP: £12.99£8.48A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the... -
Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming by Dr Jessica Taylor 9781472135483
RRP: £16.99£11.94'The kind of book that has you screaming "Yes! Yes! Yes! Now I get it!" on almost every page' Caitlin Moran'Dr Taylor sets out a compelling case . . . gives voice and agency to women who have experienced trauma and violence' Morning StarShe asked for it... -
International Law of Human Rights by Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade 9780192893499
RRP: £49.99£47.80The only textbook in the area to take a Global South perspective, drawing on the expertise of the authors and bringing in perspectives from a leading judge in the field. International Law of Human Rights takes students through a rigorous exploration of... -
If They Come in the Morning by Angela Davis
RRP: £10.99£8.94The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £25.99£24.16'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us by Hadas Weiss
RRP: £14.99£12.55Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this... -
The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke 9780300059434
RRP: £14.95£13.01Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary... -
NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed - and How We Can Save It by Raymond Tallis
RRP: £8.99£6.85The Coalition Government passed into law an unprecedented assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it. Now the effect of those devastating reforms are beginning to be felt by... -
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
RRP: £14.99£13.64Blood Year is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy and the subsequent rise of Islamic State. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US State Department's Bureau... -
Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek 9781509504879
RRP: £9.99£8.95What 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... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Islam And Terrorism (Revised And Updated Edition) by Mark Gabriel 9781629986685
RRP: £13.25£9.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629986685Author Mark A GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Creation HousePublisher Creation House -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: £16.99£14.05Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it by Matthew d'Ancona
RRP: £20.00£13.35'D'Ancona makes his case well... The book is well written and thoughtful' -- The Times'A heartfelt attempt to renew liberal ideals for the coming decades... How sorely our public debate needs others to express themselves similarly.' -- Henry Mance,... -
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: £12.99£9.09Can the Euro be saved? Should it be?Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe - arguing that economic stagnation is a direct result of the Euro's flawed birth, demolishing the... -
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do about It by Josh A. Lerner
RRP: £17.99£14.38Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold... -
Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Zhisui Li
RRP: £16.99£12.28For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history. In this intimate biography we... -
Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other by Claudia Aradau 9780192859624
RRP: £97.00£88.23This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Are algorithms ruling... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736336
RRP: £23.99£20.84Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set... -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin by Miguel Abensour
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity-of all social otherness-is... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £9.99£6.52"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' He has kept returning to September 11, in... -
Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds by Nick Totton
RRP: £20.99£19.69In today's Western, industrialised society, 'wild' has come to mean dangerous, savage, crazy, out of control. This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Totton argues that embracing unpredictability and... -
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer 9781787383272
RRP: £14.99£14.04For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world's stage? In Bibi,... -
British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960 by T. G. Otte
RRP: £22.99£20.66A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested on her global economic, naval and political presence; and her foreign policy operated on a global scale... -
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
RRP: £22.00£21.62From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm's length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups... -
Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings by Trevor Barnes
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE PORTLAND SPY RING was one of the most infamous espionage cases from the Cold War. People the world over were shocked when its exposure revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB 'illegals' - spies operating under false identities stolen from the... -
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Peter Coates 9781789147704
RRP: £16.99£12.28Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen wild... -
iLowerSecondary English Student Book Year 7 by David Grant 9780435200718
£24.40English teaching and learning Student Book for Year 7 (age 11/12) Works with the Workbook and Teacher Guide from the Inspire English series Full coverage of the KS3 (11-14) National Curriculum in English and the iLowerSecondary Curriculum ... -
Who Lost Russia?: From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War in Ukraine by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: £16.99£12.68A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in...