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Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe by Daniel Trilling
RRP: £9.99£7.11Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' GuardianA mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what... -
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake 9780198846017
RRP: £31.49£21.94A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last... -
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
RRP: £25.00£14.66In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism wasn't always considered evil. Indeed, such venerated... -
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens 9781538765401
RRP: £30.00£17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538765401Author Stuart StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 23mm -
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class – a Memo by B Latour
RRP: £9.99£6.80Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism... -
Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country by Adam Kinzinger 9780593654163
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593654163Author Adam KinzingerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Open FieldPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by Alex Berenson 9781982103675
RRP: £10.99£7.00In "a brilliant antidote to all the...false narratives about pot" (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused... -
Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle by Neil Gray 9781786605757
RRP: £41.00£37.85The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. ... -
Political Ideologies by Paul Wetherly
RRP: £42.99£40.80Political Ideologies provides a broad-ranging introduction to both the classical and contemporary political ideologies. Adopting a global outlook, it introduces readers to ideologies' increasingly global reach and the different national versions of these... -
Jailbirds: Lessons from a Women's Prison by Mim Skinner
RRP: £8.99£6.20AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFASTStep inside one of Britain's most renowned prisons...During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met people from all walks of life - what united them, was that they had committed a serious crime. But Mim's job was not to judge... -
Where God Does Not Walk by Luke McCallin 9781843449744
RRP: £18.99£13.23** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER ** THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918 Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then... -
Britain'S Korean War: Cold War Diplomacy, Strategy and Security 1950-53 by Thomas Hennessey 9780719097386
RRP: £25.00£22.19Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War. The interaction... -
George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp
RRP: £21.99£18.10For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Party Politics in Japan: Political Chaos and Stalemate in the 21st Century by Ronald J. Hrebenar
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Japanese political system is a parliamentary democracy and was the first western style government in Asia when the parliamentary system was adopted in the 1880s. It has a multiparty system, free elections, and a parliament that functions much the... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: £24.00£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576587Author Jeremy W. PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Devil's Ransom by Brad Taylor 9781837933259
RRP: £9.99£7.11Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America's most treasured secrets. THE WORLD'S SECRETS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE WRONG HANDS . . . Afghanistan has fallen. Taskforce operative Pike Logan's mission is to... -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
RRP: £20.99£18.34Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,... -
Pursuing Moral Warfare: Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency by Marcus Schulzke 9781626166585
RRP: £48.00£42.41During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus... -
India Transformed: Twenty-Five Years of Economic Reforms by Rakesh Mohan
RRP: £35.00£31.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736615Author Rakesh MohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm)... -
Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War by Frank McDonough 9780719048326
RRP: £19.99£17.82Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £16.99£16.66In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
No Tradesmen and No Women: The Origins of the British Civil Service by Michael Coolican 9781785904523
RRP: £20.00£14.29Is our civil service fit for purpose? Michael Coolican takes John Reid's damning statement about the Home Office as his point of departure for a comprehensive overview and evaluation of the machinery behind the government and the people who make public... -
Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler by Mary Fulbrook 9781785330278
RRP: £27.95£22.58For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural... -
Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management by Caroline Logan 9781800081987
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081987Author Caroline LoganFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g -
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova 9780062741585
RRP: £24.99£12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062741585Author Nadia TollokonnikovoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £18.99£13.15History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominids,... -
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
RRP: £11.99£10.15A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious... -
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy by Anthony Giddens
RRP: £15.99£14.41The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and... -
Public Policy: A New Introduction by Christoph Knill
RRP: £36.99£36.93A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of... -
Breaking: Trauma in the Newsroom by Chris Lindsay 9781908518699
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908518699Author Chris LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick House -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: £20.00£16.83Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun,... -
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by The Guardian
RRP: £10.99£7.32*New and Updated edition*It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £7.99£5.41From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
£13.22In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and... -
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim
RRP: £18.99£14.01Avi Shlaim's Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace is the first major account one of the most important figures in the turbulent history of the Middle East. Peace-broker, statesman, charismatic ruler and master of realpolitik,... -
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
RRP: £20.00£13.50Chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Financial Times and the Telegraph.Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing'Compelling, powerful and necessary.' Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism'Fascinating'... -
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume 9789353422868
RRP: £10.00£8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353422868Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 7mm -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics, and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
RRP: £38.00£30.41For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
The Selfish Capitalist: Origins of Affluenza by Oliver James 9780091924164
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world. He met those suffering from it and demonstrated how their obsessive, envious tendencies made them...