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The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People: A Practical Handbook by Priscilla Alderson
RRP: €46.40€38.35A practical guide to carrying out ethical research with children and young people, this practical handbook examines the ethical questions that arise at each stage of research, from first plans to dissemination and impact. Illustrated with case studies... -
Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future by Seth J. Frantzman
RRP: €26.18€16.72Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance-leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran. Who will be the next drone superpower?In the battle for the streets of Mosul in... -
Fire Engines, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated guide to fire trucks around the world and a history of firefighting in 700 photographs by Neil Wallington 9780754835486
RRP: €17.85€14.43This newly updated encyclopedia of fire engines from all over the world charts their history from Roman times to the super-advanced firefighting machines that we rely on today. An A-Z of fire engine manufacturers depicts each type, from General Motors in... -
The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect Noreena Hertz 9781529329254
RRP: €23.80€16.60'If I could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.' Guardian 'Destined to be a classic' Nouriel Roubini'Fascinating' Sathnam Sanghera, The Times'A hopeful book that couldn't be more important or timely' Philippa Perry... -
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum: Political Letters to The Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead 9781472121547
RRP: €17.84€11.96Telegraph letter writers, that most astute body of political commentators, are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years. The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to... -
The Art of Investigative Interviewing by Inge Sebyan Black
RRP: €74.96€66.85The Art of Investigative Interviewing, Fourth Edition, builds on the successes of the previous editions providing the reader guidance on conducting investigative interviews, both ethically and professionally. The book can be used by anyone who is... -
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan 9780062913685
RRP: €29.75€20.03Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns?Most countries and companies are... -
On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service by Eric Thompson
€18.61During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.Eric... -
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin by Sherard Cowper-Coles
RRP: €15.46€10.36In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In 1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard Cowper-Coles entered the hallowed portals of the Foreign Office... -
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
RRP: €15.46€10.36From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: €28.55€25.66The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial... -
Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy by David Cannadine 9780192889188
€11.60Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: €15.46€11.95'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell
RRP: €45.21€28.23Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and... -
Hobbes: On the Citizen by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: €33.31€28.88De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father,... -
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Liam Campling
RRP: €23.80€20.03Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €13.08€8.97A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New... -
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid
RRP: €15.46€14.03Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented... -
Cross-Border Logistics Operations: Effective Trade Facilitation and Border Management Andrew Grainger 9781789666724
RRP: €77.34€64.44With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations. At every port and border international freight operations are exposed to trade... -
Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" by Aristotle
RRP: €41.65€40.35For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric... -
Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters by Eric Protzer 9781509548125
RRP: €17.84€16.40Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not... -
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin 9780008274993
RRP: €11.89€8.14The International Bestseller The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal... -
Station 43: Audley End House and SOE's Polish Section by Ian Valentine
RRP: €15.46€11.75Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at the stately home undertook a series of arduous training... -
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
RRP: €26.17€18.58For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded... -
Modi's India:: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9789391234843
€34.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391234843Author Christophe JaffrelotFormat PaperbackPage Count 639Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications... -
Marxists against Stalinism by Ernest Mandel 9780902869578
RRP: €17.85€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869578Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Principles of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism by John Stuart Mill
RRP: €13.08€9.51This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of abiding concern, particularly the... -
Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth by Lord David Sainsbury
RRP: €23.80€17.27Is neoclassical economics dead? Why have the biggest industrial economies stagnated since the financial crisis? Is the competitive threat from China a tired metaphor or a genuine danger to our standard of living? Lord David Sainsbury draws on his... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: €20.22€14.26With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
Diamond Handbook: How to Identify & Evaluate Diamonds by Renee Newman 9780929975535
RRP: €24.98€16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929975535Author Renee NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint International Jewelry Publications,U.S.Publisher International Jewelry Publications,U.S... -
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady by John Campbell
RRP: €20.22€14.61'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and turn of her political life is here' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEARIn this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime... -
Origins of the French Revolution by Professor William Doyle
RRP: €61.88€57.88First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide to what brought about the French Revolution, and to the debates of historians about the issue. It combined a full critical account of recent controversies with a... -
Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars Neil Samworth 9781529092448
RRP: €22.60€16.45A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors. Including a preface powerfully read by the author, Neil Samworth.Neil 'Sam'... -
Callaghan by Harry Conroy 9781904950707
RRP: €11.89€8.65Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the Winter of Discontent', laying the foundations for Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1979Book InformationISBN 9781904950707Author Harry ConroyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: €27.37€22.02"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich Rowland Atkinson 9781788737975
RRP: €20.22€17.04How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and... -
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
RRP: €15.46€11.11Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond, Chris Patten creates a meditation on personal and... -
Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public by Donald R. Kinder
RRP: €27.37€26.33Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government... -
The Corpse Walker by Yiwu Liao
RRP: €17.84€11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388377Author Liao YiwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm *...