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The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims by Robert Hume 9781526738608
RRP: $41.98$29.99Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognisable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians... -
Big Data and Analytics Applications in Government: Current Practices and Future Opportunities by Gregory Richards 9781032476636
RRP: $90.28$78.94Within this context, big data analytics (BDA) can be an important tool given that many analytic techniques within the big data world have been created specifically to deal with complexity and rapidly changing conditions. The important task for public... -
The Left Case for Brexit: Reflections on the Current Crisis by Richard Tuck 9781509542284
RRP: $31.48$28.52Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what's left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. Richard Tuck's ongoing commentary on the... -
The Dark Cloud: how the digital world is costing the earth by Guillaume Pitron 9781914484445
RRP: $42.00$28.27A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. If digital technology were a country, it would be the third-highest consumer of... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: $35.68$25.79The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these changes has emerged the merciless cruelty of Islamic... -
Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City by Zachary Levenson 9780197629253
RRP: $53.53$48.20A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any... -
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic 9780674987593
RRP: $52.40$42.61A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold. We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: $84.00$62.98Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's biography... -
With Liberty and Justice For Some by Glen Greenwald 9780805092059
$45.84From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a... -
Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril by Stefan Berger 9780367757069
RRP: $79.78$70.10This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. ... -
Does ASEAN Matter?: A View from Within by Marty Natalegawa 9789814786744
RRP: $94.40$57.96Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN's quest for security and... -
Kennedy's Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 & JFK's Assassination by Michael E Salla 9780982290262
RRP: $23.73$20.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev 9781509536054
RRP: $37.78$33.68Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used... -
The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money, and the State by Simon Chadwick
RRP: $79.78$70.10This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport - the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world.Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the global response,... -
Red Tory: How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It by Phillip Blond
RRP: $31.48$20.58Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: $35.68$24.51This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
How to Give Up Plastic: Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet by Will McCallum
RRP: $14.68$10.77'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish... -
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
RRP: $23.08$16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARDDavid Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain - a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life filled with picket lines, militant trade unions, solidarity... -
Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century by Michele Dillon
RRP: $75.50$75.24The revised third edition of the text that combines classical and contemporary theories of sociological theory Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of an Introduction to Sociological Theory offers an in-depth introduction to classical and... -
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree
RRP: $20.98$14.93SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties by Darryl W Bullock 9781787602311
RRP: $42.00$30.85Winner of the prestigious Penderyn Music Book Prize 2022 In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of... -
Let This Radicalize You: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba
RRP: $31.48$24.93What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe... -
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083380Author John KeaneFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Radical Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: $42.00$38.30Calls for an imaginative surge to fix our battered societies, fusing bold ideas and practical experiment. As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a... -
The State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408870Author Dan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Pride, Pop and Politics: Music and the Fight for LGBT Rights, 1970-2022 by Darryl W Bullock
RRP: $42.00$30.85Author of the Penderyn Prize-winning The Velvet Mafia Fifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the... -
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev
RRP: $16.78$11.76Thirty 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... -
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A guide to building a better world by Klaus Schwab
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum contribute significantly to one of the most important issues of our time-how to move forward in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' -Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba GroupWorld Economic Forum Founder and... -
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media by Marc Owen Jones
RRP: $63.00$56.60You are being lied to by people who don't even exist. Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an... -
Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts: A Multidimensional Approach of Traits, Techniques, and Targets by Noel Hendrickson 9781442272316
RRP: $111.30$98.11The goal of Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts is to address the three distinct dimensions of an analyst's thinking: the person of the analyst (their traits), the processes they use (their techniques), and the problems they face (their targets). Based... -
Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire by Thomas F. Martin
RRP: $60.88$45.61Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French... -
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes
RRP: $20.98$17.16There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centres, and in union... -
Cheers, MR Churchill!: Winston in Scotland by Andrew Liddle
RRP: $42.00$28.27In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a 'life... -
Political Liberalism by John Rawls 9780231130899
RRP: $46.20$37.30This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one... -
Seven Deadly Economic Sins: Obstacles to Prosperity and Happiness Every Citizen Should Know by James R. Otteson 9781108824385
RRP: $31.48$26.36You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are economic sins as well. And they, too, wreak havoc on... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester 9780691163086
RRP: $73.50$59.09A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls's A Theory of Justice In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half... -
Peace: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver P. Richmond 9780192857026
RRP: $18.88$13.55Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The concept of peace has always attracted radical thought, action, and practices. It has been taken to mean merely an absence of overt violence or war, but in the contemporary era it is often used... -
Decolonizing and Reconstructing Africa: An Afro-Feminist-Legal Critique by Sylvia Tamale 9781988832494
RRP: $60.88$40.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832494Author Sylvia TamaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja Press -
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover by Athan Theoharis 9780929587677
RRP: $39.88$30.91Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. A grimly fascinating-and profoundly disturbing-self-exposure by one of the false... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $33.58$24.38________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering...