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Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History Dr Louise Raw 9781441114266
€35.50This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum 9781984899507
RRP: €20.23€10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899507Author Anne ApplebaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Through the Leopard's Gaze by Njambi McGrath
RRP: €11.89€8.58In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780199535712
RRP: €5.94€4.82The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged... -
A History of British Prime Ministers (Omnibus Edition): Walpole to Cameron by Dick Leonard 9781137574381
RRP: €237.99€85.57Fifty-two men and one woman have held the post of Prime Minister during the past three centuries - from Sir Robert Walpole to David Cameron. In this omnibus edition, which includes Eighteenth-Century British Premiers, Nineteenth-Century British Premiers,... -
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression by Kevin Mazur
RRP: €36.88€31.86How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows... -
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
RRP: €20.22€13.73The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?Philip Shenon, a... -
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by John Grindrod 9780571348145
RRP: €13.08€8.97A captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.***TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'A punchy polemic ... Highly readable.''A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account... -
Just the Job, Lad: More Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby Mike Pannett 9781444708936
RRP: €13.08€9.06After ten years with the Metropolitan Police, Mike has returned to his North Yorkshire roots. Working a rural beat in God's Own Country he finds that life and crime in the countryside continue to throw up fresh challenges.When a drug dealer targets the... -
An Introduction to Thermal Physics by Daniel Schroeder 9780192895554
RRP: €46.99€44.27Thermal physics deals with collections of large numbers of particles - typically 10 to the 23rd power or so. Examples include the air in a balloon, the water in a lake, the electrons in a chunk of metal, and the photons given off by the sun. We can't... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: €15.46€11.11'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
RRP: €21.42€20.93Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and... -
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick 9781451667882
RRP: €15.46€14.53The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of,... -
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
RRP: €17.84€13.03A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house... -
Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World: Demystifying Enduring Traditions and Dynamic Constraints by Jean Dong 9789819964529
RRP: €33.31€26.28This book addresses one of the most pressing geopolitical inquiries of our era: how will China's ambition manifest on the global stage? To address this question, the book considers China’s long tradition of statecraft. By doing this, it provides a unique... -
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €20.22€15.09An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thoughtIn sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are... -
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu 9781399803786
RRP: €23.80€14.08'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actorA memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was... -
Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability Regenesis Group 9781118972861
RRP: €76.10€66.29The evolution of sustainability, with a practical framework for integration Regenerative Development and Design takes sustainability to the next level, and provides a framework for incorporating regenerative design principles into your current process... -
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin
RRP: €29.75€24.63Since 1843, the Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has the liberal message evolved? Liberalism at Large presents a history of liberalism on... -
Grand Corruption: Curbing Kleptocracy Globally Robert I. Rotberg 9781032719337
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of grand corruption, showing how it can be assessed, measured, and attacked from within and without.The volume brings together in a single, definitive text some of the best analyses on how to... -
Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal by Gordon E. Cherry 9780631199946
RRP: €45.16€41.01This book examines town and country planning policy in twentieth-century Britain as an important aspect of state activity. Tracing the origins of planning ideals and practice, Gordon Cherry charts the adoption by state, both at the central and local... -
The Closure of the International System: How Institutions Create Political Equalities and Hierarchies by Lora Anne Viola 9781108711760
RRP: €30.93€27.64As global governance appears to become more inclusive and democratic, many scholars argue that international institutions act as motors of expansion and democratization. The Closure of the International System challenges this view, arguing that the... -
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Hilary McD. Beckles 9789766402686
€51.27Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement... -
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown
RRP: €15.46€11.11* UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR *CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable. Within... -
Seeing Things Politically - Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini Pierre Manent 9781587318139
RRP: €28.56€23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318139Author Pierre ManentFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)... -
The State Debate by Simon Clarke 9780333548592
RRP: €118.99€106.95The 1990s promise to be a period of rapid political change, as old political boundaries dissolve and new political forces emerge. These changes throw into question our understanding of capitalism and socialism, of the character of the nation state, and... -
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University) 9780521316439
RRP: €44.02€40.40Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each... -
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux by Tom Fletcher
RRP: €11.89€8.00'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way... -
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide by Miranda Devine
RRP: €23.80€17.27As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret.When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in... -
The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate by Kenneth S. Stern 9781487507367
RRP: €32.12€28.18The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today's college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel's right to exist racist, and disrupt their events... -
Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction by Carrie Menkel-Meadow 9780198851400
RRP: €10.70€7.91Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but... -
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: €11.89€8.21With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential candidates circa June 2015, through his come-to-Satan moment with Hillary and the Beginning of End Times in November 2016, to the current shape... -
Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way by Paul Lever
RRP: €19.03€15.05In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe - and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national... -
Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland's radical history - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising by Kenny MacAskill 9781785905704
RRP: €23.80€17.97The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh's New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its... -
An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations Ramon Pacheco Pardo 9781912127177
RRP: €7.74€7.49Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau's watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes... -
The Third Unconscious: The Psychosphere in the Viral Age by Franco Berardi
RRP: €17.84€15.17The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
RRP: €63.06€59.90This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the... -
K9 Personal Protection: A Manual for Training Reliable Protection Dogs by Resi Gerritsen
RRP: €33.31€26.87Create a safe, successful K9 training program that results in reliable protection dogs. Learn how to: Select the optimal breeds, temperament and physical and mental characteristics for protection work. Master the obedience-training techniques that form... -
The British War on Terror: Terrorism and Counterterrorism on the Home Front Since 9-11 by Steve Hewitt 9780826499004
RRP: €27.36€27.19Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, the topic of terrorism has been almost continually front-page news in the United Kingdom. The subsequent 'war on terror', including the invasion of Iraq, has only heightened interest in the matter. With the London... -
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict by Naomi Cahn
€47.73Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly appear as soldiers, commanders, casualties, and civilians. Women, by contrast, are invisible as combatants, and, when seen, are typically pictured as victims. The...