Political Science

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583224908Author Eqbal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 66g

Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian,...

Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRE On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented...

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved...

Follow-the-money' approaches are increasingly being adopted to tackle organized crime, corruption, and terrorist activities. The rationale behind such an approach is oft stated: to show that crime does not pay, to reinforce confidence in a fair and...

India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997896527Author Guy MettanFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791440902Author John R. HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows...

Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new...

Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge.Two decades ago, at the height...

What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current...

The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi...

'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not...

A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from politicians, there is a widespread feeling of despair in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523004775Author Marjorie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political...

Father Brown, the fictional priest detective created by novelist G. K. Chesterton, is one of English literature's most compelling characters. In 53 short stories, published between 1910 and 1936, Chesterton's crime-solving cleric demonstrated a unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059032Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? During this period...

An expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago created a world that is addicted to mass migration. The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it...

A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to today's...

An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialismWhy was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century...

This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the academic field of security studies. It provides a tour of the most innovative and exciting news areas of research as well as major developments in established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994027Author Herbert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria's democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792052Author Joss SheldonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines...

Fiscal Crisis of the State refers to the tendency of government expenditures to outpace revenues in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but its relevance to other countries of the period and also in today's global economy is evident. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746674Author Annie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

** 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...

'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The...

We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand...

The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and...

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David...

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998694757Author Andrei MartyanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press