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Mao's America: A Survivor’s Warning by Xi Van Fleet 9781546006305
RRP: €29.75€19.49Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But... -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780198815136
RRP: €17.84€13.03Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today -- and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient... -
What Is at Stake Now – My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth by Gorbachev
RRP: €15.46€10.51Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
€17.41Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History"... -
Masha And The Firebird by Margaret Bateson-Hill 9781907825453
RRP: €11.89€7.87Masha is a little girl who loves to paint. The Firebird asks Masha to help hide her eggs from the witch, Baba Yaga. Masha paints them to match the four elements - earth, water, air and fire - but has to do even more when Baba Yaga gets her hands on the... -
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers in Britain ask: What's Next? by Yomi Adegoke
RRP: €9.51€6.55An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices... -
The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life by Lauren Berlant 9780226043777
RRP: €26.18€25.25Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: €11.89€8.71'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is 'A... -
Climate--A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: €21.41€14.66Apologies 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. -
Reclaiming the Revolution: Extraordinary Adventures in Politics and Leadership at the Inflection Point of Industry 4.0 by Stephen Barber 9781915643773
RRP: €20.22€15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643773Author Stephen BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Investing To Save The Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference by Alice Ross
RRP: €17.84€13.03'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a more sustainable world. Together, we can and must act now' Al Gore, former Vice President of the United... -
Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World by Simon Dalby 9781788216517
RRP: €23.79€22.37We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: €5.95€5.46George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Everyday Activism: How to Change the World in Five Minutes, One Hour or a Day by Rachel England
RRP: €10.70€7.27Y O U C A N M A K E A P O S I T I V E D I F F E R E N C E This inspiring, easy-to-use guide will help kickstart any activist's journey. From supporting independent businesses and amplifying... -
The January 6 Report by The January 6th Committee
RRP: €17.84€12.33The instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original... -
Decolonising the University Gurminder K. Bhambra 9780745338200
RRP: €20.22€13.73In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: €22.60€16.45The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new... -
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta
RRP: €17.84€11.85New York Times Bestseller"Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but... -
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen
€17.95The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.This is a book about a team of scientists and... -
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians by Thucydides
RRP: €28.55€25.39Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power... -
Responses to 7 October: Law and Society by Rosa Freedman 9781032805535
RRP: €22.60€20.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict by Marieke Brandt 9781911723424
RRP: €29.75€26.63Tribes and Politics in Yemen tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the lenses of either the... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: €23.80€17.49When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition Charles Eisenstein 9781623175764
RRP: €26.18€18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175764Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Advanced Health and Social Care for NVQ and Foundation Degrees by Frances Sussex
RRP: €77.34€69.21The modern course companion for health and social care studies at Levels 4 and 5 - completely updated in response to the needs of students. Totally revised to reflect the latest legislation, occupational standards and best practice - so candidates have... -
U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual by Captain (Retd.) Dick Couch
RRP: €16.65€13.84Experts agree that the next terrorist attack on our soil will not come in the same form as September 11. The possibility of nuclear, chemical or biological attack is increasingly likely. The U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Chemical and Biological... -
Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights by Rosa Freedman
RRP: €26.18€23.23Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop... -
Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians by Matt Walsh
RRP: €20.22€13.01What Would You Surrender for God?Christians in the Middle East, in much of Asia, and in Africa are still being martyred for the faith, but how many American Christians are willing to lay down their smartphones, let alone their lives, for the faith?Being... -
Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose 9781035004249
RRP: €20.22€14.84As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA vividly told yet reflective account of a year as a volunteer police officer, examining the nature of policing, its impact on those who are policed... -
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East by Nigel West 9781785905186
RRP: €11.89€8.71As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan
€23.80A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: €26.17€24.49Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of... -
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire by David Graeber 9781904859666
RRP: €17.85€12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859666Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g -
Economics for the Many by John McDonnell 9781788732239
RRP: €15.46€13.29Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, are the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of... -
City Planning: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: €10.70€8.12City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that... -
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms by Cristina Bicchieri 9780190622053
RRP: €45.21€33.92In Norms in the Wild, distinguished philosopher Cristina Bicchieri argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place too much stress on rational deliberation. In fact, she says, many choices occur without much deliberation at all. Two... -
How to Be a Government Whip by Helen Jones 9781785900624
RRP: €15.46€11.31One of the most misunderstood and oft-caricatured jobs in British politics, whips are the unseen, unsung heroes of the parliamentary system, without whom governments would doubtless crumble and legislative business would almost certainly grind to a halt... -
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh 9781595589125
RRP: €26.17€19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589125Author Peter KornbluhFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 865g -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: €17.84€13.03Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of... -
Nobody Lives Here: A Jewish Childhood in the Occupied Netherlands by Lex Lesgever 9781803993225
RRP: €22.60€17.04'I was on the street and I was free - but what now?'This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of wartime Amsterdam, the only survivor of his large family. He was just 11 when the Germans invaded in May...