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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Pablo Sendra
RRP: $20.98$20.75In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: $10.50$9.28George 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... -
The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie" by Major Garrett
RRP: $58.78$39.08When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington correspondent Major... -
A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism by Alston Chase 9780393325560
RRP: $50.40$44.54This is a radically new interpretation of the life and motives of the infamous Unabomber. Alston Chase's gripping account follows Ted Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard, where he was subject not only to the despairing... -
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
RRP: $41.98$25.49A masterful and eye-opening examination of Trump and the coercive control tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters written by "an authority on breaking away from cults...an argument that...bears consideration as the next election... -
Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans by Augustine 9780521468435
RRP: $88.18$79.63This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative, and... -
Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered by Jon Davis 9780198862819
RRP: $31.48$23.00Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'... -
The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura 9781913394578
RRP: $27.28$18.06From Leonardo Padura-whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana-'The Transparency of Time' sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. Mario Conde is... -
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: $75.50$60.82In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives... -
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi 9780231150750
RRP: $46.20$36.46This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the... -
No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade by Nicholas Gilby 9781906523176
RRP: $16.78$11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523176Author Nicholas GilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
RRP: $33.58$30.39In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us... -
Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: $31.48$25.47Written by one of the leading figures in SIAbout the AuthorSir Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Previously he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation... -
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State by Gargi Bhattacharyya
RRP: $35.68$28.52'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of... -
The Oxford Handbook of War by Julian Lindley-French 9780199676958
RRP: $73.48$72.01The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The... -
God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin 9780486224831
RRP: $13.63$9.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486224831Author Mikhail BakuninFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $31.48$20.58The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832,... -
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass 9781839132506
RRP: $16.78$12.43A New York Times bestseller Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch... -
The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka: Care for the Soul by Jan Patocka
RRP: $54.58$44.56Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains... -
The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital by Karl Marx
RRP: $16.78$11.76The unabridged versions of these definitive works are now available together in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with an introduction by Marx in Soho actor Bob Weick. Considered to be one of the most influential political writings, The Communist... -
Esc. by Marie Le Conte
RRP: $35.68$24.70'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year... -
Current Intelligence: How the CIA's Top-Secret Presidential Briefing Shaped History by David Charlwood
RRP: $42.00$31.58A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS AND CIA SECRETSEvery day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency.Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump hardly... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
$44.04The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
RRP: $57.73$41.33History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533022
$63.34How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US... -
Athenian Hoplite vs Spartan Hoplite: Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $29.38$20.48The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most powerful Greek city-states in the wake of... -
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore 9781399810173
RRP: $42.00$28.04'America's greatest living essayist . . . Wonderful' Fintan O'TooleA panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore. The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New... -
Haughey by Gary Murphy
RRP: $58.78$44.54With exclusive access to the Haughey archives, Gary Murphy presents a reassessment of Charles Haughey's life and legacy. Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the... -
Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity by David Campbell
RRP: $41.98$37.42A seminal text in the growing area of critical approaches to security.. The first edition, published in 1991, was well-received and widely reviewed. The book is a key text on many course reading lists.About the AuthorDavid Campbell is Professor of... -
Guerrilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance: Making A Better World Through Craftivism by Sayraphim Lothian
RRP: $41.98$32.82# 1 Best Seller in Crafts & Hobbies, Stenciling Resistance CraftsCraftivism can be your voice of resistance: Craftivism is a non-threatening form of activism that gives people a voice when they feel voiceless and power where they feel powerless. It... -
How to Win a Marginal Seat by Gavin Barwell
RRP: $27.28$19.45During the 2015 general election, the contest in Gavin Barwell's constituency of Croydon Central was by any measure - the amount of money spent, the frequency of visits by ministers, the volume of literature delivered or the number of political activists... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $14.68$10.77Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823275939
RRP: $46.18$40.30Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of... -
The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève by Jeff Love
RRP: $46.20$36.46Alexandre Kojeve (1902-1968) was an important and provocative thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most of his life in France. His interpretation of Hegel and his notorious declaration that history had come to an end exerted great influence on French... -
DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. by Noor Hindi
RRP: $27.28$18.12What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and... -
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees by Matthew J. Gibney 9780521009379
RRP: $56.68$50.57Asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries, raising a host of difficult ethical and political questions. What responsibilities do the world's richest countries have to refugees arriving at their borders? Are states... -
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman 9780099526278
RRP: $35.68$25.79In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as... -
The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty 9780674504806
RRP: $50.30$40.19Thomas Piketty-whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate-wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic... -
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
RRP: $23.08$16.32The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles... -
London of the Future by Peter Murray 9781858947105
RRP: $84.00$63.71The proposals in London of the Future aim to predict and prescribe how the metropolis might be governed, organized, and designed in years to come and to provoke debate among planners, architects, and developers. Over the course of eighteen essays,...