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Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service by Michael Lipsky 9780871545442
£27.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871545442Author Michael LipskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation -
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez
RRP: £13.99£11.62Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, the working-class has been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic... -
Genocide: A World History by Norman M. Naimark 9780199765263
RRP: £24.99£18.62Genocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as its departure point, this book examines the main episodes in the history of genocide from the beginning of human history to the present. Norman M... -
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organised Cybercrime - from Global Experience to Your Front Door by Brian Krebs
RRP: £15.99£11.61A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and... -
Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Stathis Kalyvas
RRP: £10.99£7.77Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy. Today, Greece can be found at the center of the economic maelstrom in Europe. Beginning in late 2008, the Greek economy entered a nosedive that would... -
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C White
RRP: £19.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner 9780063221499
RRP: £14.99£9.70#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER#1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLERJared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened... -
The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Bodenhamer
RRP: £8.99£6.45Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers... -
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control by Vili Lehdonvirta
RRP: £26.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PROSE Award - Business, Finance & Management 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780262047227Author Vili LehdonvirtaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT... -
Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
RRP: £25.00£17.92In 2021, Northern Ireland will commemorate its centenary, but Brexit, more than any other event in that 100-year history, has jeopardised its very existence. Events since 2016 have complicated political relationships within Northern Ireland and further... -
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
RRP: £10.99£7.40Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare... -
Modern Greece: A Civilization On The Periphery by Keith R Legg 9780367154790
RRP: £37.99£33.38This clear, balanced book explores the dilemma of Greece, the font of European civilization. Despite its classical past and EU membership, Greece has been unable to escape the limbo of being nearly developed. Illuminating the impact of borrowed western... -
The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 by Gary Kates
RRP: £14.99£13.58Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the... -
Fundamentals of Cancer Care by Mark Foulkes 9780995595453
RRP: £24.99£24.26As the range of successful treatments for cancer expands, demand for skilled and trained nursing teams is growing. This new text supported by the UK Oncology Nursing Society, and written by a team of over 30 experienced practitioners, provides an... -
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley 9781631492556
£21.35On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe-at least for the time being-in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their... -
Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Apocalypse Edition by Daniel W. Drezner
RRP: £17.99£14.38How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasionWhat would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other... -
Radio War: The Secret Espionage War of the Radio Security Service 1938-1946 by David Abrutat 9781781557594
RRP: £25.00£17.62During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland Britain to spy on British military activity. Monitoring and reporting of their wireless transmissions fell... -
Durruti In The Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz 9781904859505
RRP: £20.00£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859505Author Abel PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1099g -
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett
RRP: £21.99£19.19In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based... -
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century by Jeffrey A. Larsen 9780804790895
RRP: £24.99£21.67The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st... -
The Global Sexual Revolution by Gabriele Kuby 9781621381549
£17.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381549Author Gabriele KubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico Press -
Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi 9780393347333
RRP: £12.99£11.46Parkland is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History, a huge and historic account of the event and all... -
Rise and Resist: Essays on Love, Courage, Politics and Resistance from The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun 9781948016032
£17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948016032Author Rivera SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rising Sun Media, Inc,Publisher Rising Sun Media, Inc,Weight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)... -
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: £26.95£23.43Learn about the first time in history that people of color overthrew a European colonial regime to establish an independent country Describing the only successful slave revolt in world history, the newly revised Second Edition of A Concise History of... -
Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece And Turkey by Bruce Clark 9781862079243
RRP: £10.99£7.32It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were of the... -
The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams: Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity by Raymond Williams 9781786837066
RRP: £18.99£14.52In the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals'. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434148Author Elizabeth S. HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science by Paul Behrens 9781911648093
RRP: £12.99£8.60The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul... -
An Introduction to Thermal Physics by Daniel Schroeder 9780192895554
RRP: £39.49£37.20Thermal physics deals with collections of large numbers of particles - typically 10 to the 23rd power or so. Examples include the air in a balloon, the water in a lake, the electrons in a chunk of metal, and the photons given off by the sun. We can't... -
architect, verb.: The New Language of Building by Reinier De Graaf 9781839761928
£11.35No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified. When architects talk about 'Excellence', 'Sustainability', 'Well-being', 'Liveability', 'Placemaking', 'Creativity', 'Beauty' and 'Innovation',... -
Dictator's Handbook: a practical manual for the aspiring tyrant by Carmine DeLuca 9780615652429
RRP: £12.50£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615652429Author Carmine DeLucaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gull Pond BooksPublisher Gull Pond BooksWeight(grams) 431g -
Social Policy by Hartley Dean 9781509524068
RRP: £15.99£14.41How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental... -
The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century by Bryan Penprase 9780691231495
RRP: £28.00£21.80Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived... -
Last Hours of Ancient Sun: Rev by Thom Hartmann
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400051571Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The New Poverty by Stephen Armstrong 9781786634634
RRP: £12.99£11.01Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in work,... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £16.99£14.61An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain... -
The Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
RRP: £12.99£8.60An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
Markets in the Making - Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation by Michel Callon
RRP: £28.00£22.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130574Author Michel CallonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper 9781788738873
RRP: £16.99£16.97The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is... -
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen 9781849354967
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354967Author Eric LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press