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World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of... -
Amartya Sen by Lawrence Hamilton 9781509519859
RRP: £17.99£16.04Amartya Sen is one of the world's best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has also contributed almost without peer to the study of economics, philosophy and... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: £16.99£15.31According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the... -
Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance and the Limits of Privacy by John Gilliom
RRP: £23.00£22.13In Overseers of the Poor, John Gilliom confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best-the watched. Arguing that the current public conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife... -
Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age by Alexander Galloway
RRP: £16.99£14.10Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today, and the fascinating people who brought these machines to life. With an eye to both the computable... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: £18.99£12.75"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
AI for School Teachers by Rose Luckin
RRP: £22.99£20.16What is artificial intelligence? Can I realistically use it in my school? What's best done by human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence, and how do I bring these strengths together? What would it look like for me, and my school, to be AI Ready?AI... -
The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederstrom 9780745655611
RRP: £15.99£14.41Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £23.99£21.24Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety... -
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo 9780745340661
RRP: £16.99£11.54During the summer of 2018, numerous members of the Labour Party were accused of anti-Semitic behaviour by their detractors. The controversy reached fever pitch amid claims that the Labour Party had become 'institutionally racist' under the leadership of... -
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy: History, Politics, Society by Andrea Mammone 9781138589575
RRP: £47.99£42.21The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from many leading scholars in the field, this Handbook is comprised of 28 chapters which are... -
Impactful Inclusion Toolkit – 52 Activities to Help You Learn and Practice Inclusion Every Day in the Workplace by Steele
RRP: £26.99£17.59Practical, hands-on strategies to increase inclusion, diversity, and equity in your workplace In Impactful Inclusion Toolkit: 52 Activities to Help You Learn and Practice Inclusion Every Day in the Workplace, accomplished diversity, equity, and inclusion... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown 9781935408543
RRP: £17.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408543Author Wendy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: £13.99£12.45The security services have played a central,and often mysterious,role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theatre siege, to the war in Chechnya and the... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: £22.99£22.43Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts 9780674245952
RRP: £30.95£24.82A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Fortune Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the YearAn essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the... -
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface by Philip Mirowski
RRP: £25.95£20.64Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made... -
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization by Fabian Scheidler
RRP: £19.99£17.37The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states,... -
Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners by Josh Davidson 9781849355216
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355216Author Josh DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
The Good Assassin: Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
RRP: £10.99£7.25Before the Second World War, Herbert Cukurs was a world-famous aviator and a hero in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. During the war he joined the SS, led a militia and was responsible for the genocide of 30,000 Latvian Jews. By the 1960s the man who became... -
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.09A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a... -
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts by Victoria Kahn
RRP: £24.00£23.03In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological... -
Understanding theories and concepts in social policy by Ruth Lister 9781861347930
RRP: £24.99£24.91A central theme of this lively and accessible text is that theory helps us to understand policy, politics and practice. The book combines an in-depth exploration of selected theoretical perspectives and concepts with the student-friendly format of the... -
The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide by Pamela Cooper-White
£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Political/Social Sciences) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781506482118Author Pamela Cooper-WhiteFormat PaperbackPage... -
How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers by Tiger Cox 9781787081178
RRP: £16.99£11.54A practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers. Mountaineers, seafarers, astronauts, cyclists, hikers, divers, gliders, aviators even the most famous and... -
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
RRP: £10.99£7.77Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?How should we exercise power?Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where... -
Overreach: China, America, and the New Cold War by Susan Shirk
RRP: £24.49£21.18For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in... -
Why We Hate Politics by Colin Hay 9780745630984
RRP: £50.00£49.86Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and undue... -
The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings & Islamic Militancy in Nigeria by Helon Habila
RRP: £13.99£9.75An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terroristsOn 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world's deadliest terror group... -
Terrorism: How to Respond by Richard English 9780199590032
RRP: £16.99£12.28The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this book argues that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international terrorism. Recent policies have ignored the lessons of the past.Terrorist : How to Respond seeks to remedy... -
War Primer by Bertolt Brecht
£13.85In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a... -
British Generals in Blair's Wars by Mr Jonathan Bailey
RRP: £39.99£35.46British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning. The chapters embrace all the UK's major operations... -
Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
RRP: £20.00£13.65Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.04Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
RRP: £10.99£7.77At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever.Before... -
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Always fascinating and very funny, Alyssa's book is full of juicy stories from one of the world's most glamorous jobs' Mindy KalingIf your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes... -
Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside their Secret World by Jean Sasson 9781851689019
RRP: £12.99£9.09As the western world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden has fought to keep his personal life a mystery - loyalty and fear keeping those who know him from speaking out - until now. For the first time, two of Osama's closest family members, his... -
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
RRP: £9.99£7.11For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Has the time come to move beyond it? Using his unrivalled knowledge of the subject, Harvey lays bare the follies of... -
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
RRP: £14.99£10.95A 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... -
Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History by Amy Buller
RRP: £15.00£9.80Hitler gave voice to a cry that came from the heart of a nation. Originally published in 1943, Darkness over Germany is a poignant and timely reminder of how high youth unemployment and the disenfranchised working class gave Hitler a savage worship. ...