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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
RRP: $46.18$32.78For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded... -
War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of Isis, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: $39.88$28.12In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and... -
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions by Neta C. Crawford
RRP: $63.00$40.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047487Author Neta C. CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Limits of Human Rights by Bardo Fassbender
RRP: $115.50$114.91What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
$153.64Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind... -
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . And You Too! by Chelsea Handler
RRP: $31.48$18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511793Author Chelsea HandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order by Samuel Helfont
RRP: $54.58$46.18The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat for the liberal international order. In Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont offers a new narrative... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: $42.00$30.41When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Low-Volume Road Engineering: Design, Construction, and Maintenance by Robert A. Douglas
RRP: $130.18$112.58"Everything that sustains us - grown, mined, or drilled - begins its journey to us on a low-volume road (Long)." Defined as roads with traffic volumes of no more than 400 vehicles per day, they have enormous impacts on economies, communication, and... -
A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: $27.28$21.19In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough by Alex Evans
RRP: $23.08$16.32Why, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit?Why, rather than vote for the best-qualified candidate ever to stand as US President, did voters opt for a reality TV star with no political experience?In both cases,... -
Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations by Jeffrey Bachman
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and... -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
RRP: $31.48$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636448Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works by Ronen Palan 9780801476129
RRP: $54.58$47.23From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: $31.48$22.34'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller... -
Inside Trump's White House: The Authorized Inside Story of His First White House Years: 2019 by Doug Wead 9781785905568
RRP: $42.00$30.41After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here, finally, is a history of the Trump White House, with the President and his staff talking openly and on the record. In Inside Trump's White House, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history... -
See No Evil by Robert Baer
RRP: $20.98$14.93See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of the... -
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression by Christine Delphy
$37.99Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether "bourgeois" and... -
Conversations with Rbg: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen 9781250235169
RRP: $58.80$33.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250235169Author Jeffrey RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
The Letters of Margaret of Anjou by Helen E Maurer 9781783276820
RRP: $56.68$56.36New study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of... -
The Execution of the Hangman of Riga: The Only Execution of a Nazi War Criminal by the Mossad by Anton Kuenzle
RRP: $35.60$34.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035251Author Anton KuenzleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman
RRP: $39.88$35.43Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only... -
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst 9780571237425
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Throughout its short existence, it... -
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson
RRP: $31.48$20.58The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeThis book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of... -
The Unconscious in Social and Political Life by David Morgan
$81.63Traumatic events happen in every age, yet there is a particularly cataclysmic feeling to our own epoch that is so attractive to some and so terrifying to others. The terrible events of September 11th 2001 still resonate and the repercussions continue to... -
Poets of the Chinese Revolution by Gregor Benton
RRP: $42.00$34.50This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China's early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu's disciple and, like him, a... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky 9781804943878
RRP: $16.78$12.16The words of a man. The message of a people.Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly... -
Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive by Ben Thompson
RRP: $27.28$14.93In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school,... -
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan
$59.60Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the... -
Theory and Practice of Leadership by Roger Gill
RRP: $132.30$107.50Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Praise for the first edition: 'At last a well-written, balanced and insightful British book on leadership. It is probable that every theory and assertion of consequence is commented upon. A... -
Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS by Gavin Esler 9781912454358
RRP: $18.88$12.22'Punchy, pithy and short.' - POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST 'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' - PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC The broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler reveals the long-lasting... -
Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century by Hugo Slim
RRP: $35.68$32.15War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving fast--'big aid' demands more and more money, while aid... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: $39.88$28.58The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780099540748
RRP: $12.58$9.37WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised... -
Inclusion, Equality and Diversity in Working with Children by Sue Griffin
RRP: $77.26$70.75This book provides an integrated answer to addressing inclusion, equality and diversity in today's childcare settings.It explains, in a sensitive and easy-to-follow way, how to turn good intentions into effective anti-discriminatory practice when working... -
UK Politics by Andrew Blick 9780198825555
RRP: $90.28$85.68One of the first introductory UK politics textbooks to publish since Brexit and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book combines foundational understanding and critical perspectives to provide a clear overview of the UK political system. UK... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
RRP: $20.98$14.93*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's... -
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey T. Richelson 9780393329827
RRP: $29.38$27.83A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more than sixty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952... -
The Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: $23.08$16.32'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means' Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century. A religious and... -
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff
RRP: $48.30$47.31When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and...