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London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: £14.99£10.95London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's... -
Climate--A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £17.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172480Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Report From Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin 9781439123119
RRP: £9.99£9.29Claiming to be of the contents of a "secret government report" until it was proven false by the investigative work of journalist and scholars, Report from Iron Mountain outlines the social structure changes that would come with world peace in the 1960s... -
The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist by Dani Rodrik
RRP: £12.99£9.49For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are... -
Securing the State and its Citizens: National Security Councils from Around the World by Paul O'Neill
£25.15The global security situation is challenging and constantly changing. Responding to threats requires the effective coordination of the various levers of national power. These must now go beyond the traditional diplomatic, information, military and... -
A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence by Jack O'Connor 9781032566948
RRP: £41.99£36.75A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence explains the newest form of intelligence used by governments, commercial organizations, and individuals. Geospatial intelligence combines late 20th century historically derived ways of thinking and early... -
Humanism and Terror by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £17.99£16.04First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror is a vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. Attempting to understand what he called the "dislocated world" that followed immediately... -
K9 Behavior Basics: A Manual for Proven Success in Operational Service Dog Training by Resi Gerritsen 9781550594515
RRP: £27.99£19.61Understand dog behavior to work with, not against, your K9 s instincts. Learn how to: Recognize and interpret your K9 s expressions, gestures and signals. Use operant conditioning to efficiently and humanely train K9s. Plan and execute effective K9... -
Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history ... Eye-opening, engrossing'Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut,... -
War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
RRP: £10.99£8.72'Insightful and immersive' Sunday Times'An intellectual non-fiction thriller' Financial TimesA riveting expose of the hidden philosophical movement that drives the populist right around the worldSteve Bannon in the United States. Aleksandr Dugin in... -
Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism by Aseem Prakash 9780521664875
RRP: £30.99£28.28Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt environmental policies which go beyond legal requirements. It employs a new-institutionalist... -
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation by Gene Sharp 9781854251046
RRP: £7.99£6.69A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing military dictatorships by passive means. This work shows how nonviolent action grows from the fact that all... -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post'He was a... -
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights by Lara Montesinos Coleman 9781478025566
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial... -
Bromley's Family Law by Nigel Lowe 9780198806691
RRP: £48.99£47.49Relied on by generations of students and practitioners alike, Bromley's Family Law remains the definitive guide to the subject. Updated by experts in the area, Nigel Lowe, Gillian Douglas, Emma Hitchings, and Rachel Taylor provide an accurate and... -
Israel's National Security, the Arab Position, and Its Complicated Relations with the United States by Ehud Eilam 9781666907506
RRP: £81.00£71.06During the Syrian civil war in late 2013, Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, which almost brought the United States into the war. However, this was prevented by an agreement that disarmed Assad from most of his chemical weapons. This showed the... -
Hutton and Butler: Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power by W. G. Runciman 9780197263297
£18.67These essays offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years. Never has the path to a British war been mapped so fully and swiftly as the road to Baghdad in 2002-3. Between them,... -
Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder by Michael Burleigh 9781529030174
RRP: £12.99£8.78'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes' - The Times 'Book of the Week'In Day of the Assassins, acclaimed... -
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order by Mark Neocleous
£17.13The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power... -
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas 9780141034492
RRP: £19.99£14.28Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South... -
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
RRP: £22.99£17.77Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they... -
The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy and the Future of Meat by Rob Percival
RRP: £18.99£13.15Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation, by geopolitical tensions and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to the status quo - pandemics and economic strife, the... -
Understanding Privacy by Daniel J. Solove
RRP: £25.95£20.64Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many... -
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
£11.35Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous... -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era by Mark A. Pinksy
RRP: £23.99£7.59The U.S. financial system is a source of enormous conservative power. Yet most progressive people and organisations trust it with their money and so help fund their conservative opposition. Until progressives achieve a financial system that works for... -
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero by Jay D. Aronson
RRP: £35.95£29.36After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify... -
A Community of Character: Towards a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by Stanley Hauerwas
RRP: £27.99£24.14Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century. Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what... -
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509528608
RRP: £9.99£6.80Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom... -
Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £27.00£21.06"We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. Craig Calhoun, a sociologist who witnessed the... -
Falling Down: Parliamentary Conservatism and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge
RRP: £18.99£15.65Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780197541302
£40.71Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political... -
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman 9780691160252
RRP: £17.99£11.95In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the... -
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order by Bruno Macaes
RRP: £14.99£13.64China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy... -
Survival Driving: Staying Alive on the World's Most Dangerous Roads by Robert H. Deatherage, Jr.
RRP: £53.99£46.87Survival Driving: Staying Alive on the World's Most Dangerous Roads, Second Edition was written to inform and protect: to keep people alive by making them more situationally aware.Any person is a potential target, either from a criminal or a terrorist... -
Aberfan: Government and Disaster by Iain McLean 9781860571336
RRP: £19.99£17.61On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of Aberfan below. It is a moment that will be forever etched in the memories of many people in Wales and... -
High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis by David Rudlin
RRP: £40.00£33.18The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became... -
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left by Simon Hannah
RRP: £14.99£9.80*A Guardian Book of the Day* The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn's famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.' For... -
Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation by Elizabeth Pearson 9781787389465
RRP: £45.00£39.82Misogyny and 'toxic masculinity' are increasingly implicated in radicalisation. From the men's incel ('involuntary celibate') movement online, to jihadist groups like Islamic State, to radical right 'Free Speech' protests -radicalisation spans ideologies... -
Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science by Gregory Wawro
RRP: £30.00£23.29How to study the past using dataQuantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science advances historical research in the social sciences by bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Gregory Wawro and Ira Katznelson argue for an... -
Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body-language of Politics by Max Atkinson
RRP: £35.99£31.69`Max Atkinson presents a neat blend of applied political psychology and communications theory that is bound to be read closely in the corridors of power. His study of the art of effective political persuasion will revolutionize - for the better -...