Political Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394704Author Chris MikulFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Shortlisted 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...

A 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Under 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...

Apologies 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

In "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...

The 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 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...

AS 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...

** 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...

Available 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...

For 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...

THE 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 ...

The 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...

Apologies 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

Pike 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...

Why 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,...

During 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...

Apologies 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)...

Re-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...

In 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...

Is 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...

For 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

History 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,...

A 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 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Post-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,...

*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...

From 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 ...

In 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...

Avi 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,...

Chosen 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'...

Apologies 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

For 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...