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Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life by David Dimbleby 9781399702430
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Thoughtful, very readable ... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' - The Times'Pithy and amusing' - Sunday TimesDavid Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years,... -
West and the Rest by Roger Scruton 9780826470300
RRP: £22.99£22.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863564772
RRP: £16.99£11.54"The people want ...": the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by their demands. In this landmark work, noted... -
The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present by Ali Rahnema 9780755643998
RRP: £23.99£21.08From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its... -
Eighteenth-Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt by D. Leonard 9780230284784
RRP: £44.99£44.97Following his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger... -
Peer and the Gangster: A Very British Cover-up by ,Daniel Smith 9780750993296
RRP: £20.00£15.44In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined: PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While the article withheld the names of the subjects, the newspaper reported that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had ordered an... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: £82.00£59.26Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
RRP: £16.99£12.28To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only... -
The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose by Clare Rewcastle Brown 9781527219366
RRP: £14.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527219366Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: £35.00£30.50Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it happen? How might it happen? by Brendan O'Leary 9780241995778
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Should be required reading for everyone - including unionists - who are interested in and concerned about the fate of this island' Dublin Review of Books'Compelling' Financial TimesWill Ireland really reunite?A century ago the resolution to Ireland’s... -
Billy Joel On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Lisa Torem 9781789521832
RRP: £15.99£11.61'In the beginning,' Billy Joel entertained Long Island locals, with The Hassles and Attila, prior to forging a solo career in 1971. One year later, the singer-songwriter-pianist captivated college students when 'Captain Jack' dominated the Philadelphia... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: £19.99£13.35Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. The CFA Franc was created in 1945, binding fourteen African states and... -
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum 9781982102517
RRP: £12.99£8.32A "brilliant" (Chicago Review of Books), "elegantly written, and compelling" (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Civil Rights in the USA 1863-1980 by Susan Willoughby
£32.82A study of civil rights in the USA. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift 9781906523305
RRP: £7.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523305Author Richard SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays by Ernest Mandel 9780902869417
RRP: £15.00£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869417Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of... -
Theories of International Relations by Richard Devetak
RRP: £33.99£30.29This introductory textbook on international relations theory brings together a selection of leading experts to offer an unparalleled insight into the main paradigms and latest developments in the discipline. Presenting a full range of theories, from... -
Ronny Barr Profiles - British Two Seaters of the Great War by Ronny Bar 9781911658436
RRP: £27.50£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658436Author Ronny BarrFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Raheem Kassam 9781621576808
RRP: £28.99£17.23No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"-where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away-can be attested to by its many victims. Now Raheem... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: £12.99£9.79'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
Right or Wrong: The Memoirs of Lord Bell by Tim Bell
RRP: £25.00£18.88SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR IN THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2015 Tim Bell was the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or... -
Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Macaes
RRP: £18.99£16.98A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new 'survival of the fittest'. How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a turning point in the flow of history? Before Covid, a... -
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis by Professor Omer Bartov 9781350332317
RRP: £24.99£20.44This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have... -
Spy Runner: Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the Cambridge Spies by Nicholas Reed
RRP: £10.99£8.25Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. I remember it as the day I was called up. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . . . Major Ronnie Reed... -
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order by G. John Ikenberry 9780300271010
RRP: £16.99£14.61A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs "A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism-both as a political philosophy and as a guide... -
Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions by Diana Johnstone 9780745319506
RRP: £22.99£15.17In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. Thanks to massive deception and self-deception by... -
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Commentary by Patrick Thornberry 9780198827405
£45.76The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic... -
Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Donald L. Horowitz
RRP: £32.00£25.76Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in... -
What Makes Us Stronger by Freya Lewis
RRP: £14.99£11.22The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her. Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester arena on the night of 22nd May 2017. Her best friend Nell was tragically... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: £25.00£16.13'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: £25.00£19.59This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution by Barry Asmus 9781433539114
RRP: £25.99£19.21We can win the fight against global poverty. Combining penetrating economic analysis with insightful theological reflection, this book sketches a comprehensive plan for increasing wealth and protecting stability at a national level."This book will become... -
Agent Twister: The True Story Behind the Scandal that Gripped the Nation by Philip Augar
RRP: £20.00£13.26He lived a double-life in the sixties.Faked his own death in the seventies.And retained his cover in the eighties. 'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review A period thriller with powerful political and... -
Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde Andrews, GuardianWhere is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon... -
All We Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism by Patrick Bresnihan
RRP: £19.99£15.76Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while... -
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 by Chris Mullin
RRP: £9.99£7.11On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is politics as it really is: entertaining encounters with... -
This Won't Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse by Eli Grober 9781615199990
RRP: £20.99£13.96In this laugh-out-loud collection of witty observations from a world that’s falling apart, Eli Grober leads readers into a comical house of horrors. With more than 75 new pieces and many of Grober’s most viral New Yorker and McSweeney’s humour essays,... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman 9780063078314
RRP: £14.99£9.70A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed...