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US Foreign Policy by Michael Cox
RRP: €57.11€53.99Giving students a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected, US Foreign Policy is the student toolkit for navigating the ever-changing dynamics of the subject area. Using the book, students learn how to critically assess US... -
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan
RRP: €17.84€14.09Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of... -
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World by Sheila Rowbotham
€16.41A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - social, sexual, cultural and economic - Sheila Rowbotham... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9780691018546
RRP: €47.60€39.01On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot by Colin Freeman
RRP: €13.08€8.72'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and presenter of Great British Railway Journeys'A compelling story of courage, determination and skill' Terry... -
Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: €20.22€17.93Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of... -
Women Who Love Men Who Kill: 35 True Stories of Prison Passion (Updated Edition) by Sheila Isenberg
RRP: €19.03€13.5230 years after she first asked the question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers it anew in the age of the internet, smart phones, social media, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and... -
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam 9780199606290
RRP: €24.98€21.82Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid... -
The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left by Boris Kagarlitsky 9780745350288
RRP: €29.74€19.49'A man of enormous intellect, knowledge and bravery' - Jeremy Corbyn MP 'Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space' – Open Democracy Authoritarianism is rampant across the globe. Right-wing governments from Russia to America... -
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi 9781847924230
RRP: €17.84€13.03Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In The Geopolitics of Emotion, Dominique Moisi brilliantly demonstrates that the... -
The Politics of James Connolly Kieran Allen 9780745304731
RRP: €22.60€15.40Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
RRP: €24.98€16.89Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the... -
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
RRP: €17.84€16.23Blood Year is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy and the subsequent rise of Islamic State. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US State Department's Bureau... -
Blackstone's Preparing for Police Duty by Richard Butterworth
€31.02This is a fully revised fourth edition of the successful Blackstone's Preparing for Police Duty, the invaluable introduction to the police service for new recruits or those considering a policing career. This highly practical guide informs those... -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: €41.65€36.30Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It by Harriet Johnson 9780008533106
RRP: €11.89€8.14'Outstanding' THE SECRET BARRISTER 'It's brilliant, it's comprehensive, buy it' EVENING STANDARD 'A powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read' JESS PHILLIPS MP 'Precise, heartfelt and anti-pompous' THE TIMES ... -
The World Trade Organization: A Beginner's Guide by David Collins 9781780745787
RRP: €11.89€9.10One of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world, the WTO is a lynchpin of globalization, allowing us to enjoy products and services from around the globe. However, it also lays bare the frailty of many industries, leading some... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: €20.22€14.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
€22.91Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He... -
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody War on Drugs by Antony Loewenstein 9781912854240
RRP: €20.22€14.61Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe,... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: €76.15€60.05Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting... -
The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough by Alex Evans
RRP: €13.08€9.37Why, 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,... -
Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington 9780300116205
RRP: €29.75€25.37This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the... -
When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic Amy Cortvriend (University of Northampton) 9781447368069
RRP: €17.84€14.43The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare. It brought out the good in many and the worst in others, and raised questions around what is... -
Wilfred Rhodes: The Triumphal Arch by Patrick Ferriday 9780956732187
RRP: €29.75€21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956732187Author Patrick FerridayFormat HardbackPage Count 445Imprint Von Krumm PublishingPublisher Von Krumm PublishingWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)... -
A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right by Matthew Rose 9780300268133
RRP: €16.66€14.59A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book's eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout."-Ezra... -
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould
RRP: €15.46€13.10The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found... -
Precision: A History of American Warfare by James Patton Rogers 9781526125880
RRP: €23.80€17.29We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history.As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: €16.65€13.51Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments... -
Global Political Economy by John Ravenhill
RRP: €51.16€48.55An expert team of international authors present a diverse and comprehensive selection of theories and issues, carefully brought together by experienced editor John Ravenhill. Crucially, debates are presented through a critical lens to encourage students... -
Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age by Greg Berman 9780197637043
RRP: €29.14€24.73A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are... -
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science by Ian Shapiro 9780300066364
€25.36This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice theory in political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro assess rational choice theory where it is reputed to be most... -
Northern Ireland: The Troubles: From The Provos to The Det, 1968-1998 by Kenneth Lesley-Dixon 9781526729170
RRP: €15.46€10.94It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the 'troubles', from 1969 to 2001 and beyond. What is less well known is how these units were recruited, how... -
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet by Marie Le Conte 9781788705363
RRP: €11.89€8.27Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 16 and, at 31, has just under 100,000 followers on Twitter. She spent her formative... -
The Left Behind: Reimagining the Excluded of Britain by James Morrison
RRP: €20.22€13.93'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. But... -
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Jonny Oates 9781785905728
RRP: €23.80€17.23Aged fifteen and armed with a credit card stolen from his father, Jonny Oates ran away from home and boarded a plane to Addis Ababa. His plan? To single-handedly save the Ethiopian people from the devastating 1985 famine. Discovering on arrival that the... -
The Russian View of U.S. Strategy: Its Past, Its Future Jonathan Samuel Lockwood 9780765806369
RRP: €54.73€47.75Soviet perceptions of U.S. strategy remained remarkably consistent from the post-Stalin period through the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. The consistency of the Soviet tendency to engage in the 'mirror-image' fallacy... -
The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone 9781510733428
RRP: €15.46€10.01From Oscar-winner Oliver Stone comes a first-hand look at one of the most important, powerful, and controversial leaders in the world: Vladimir Putin of Russia. The companion to the news-breaking television series, this edition has substantial material... -
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens 9781538765401
RRP: €35.70€26.04Apologies 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 -
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara 9780231158466
RRP: €35.70€28.19Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for...