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Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives by Annie Lowrey
RRP: £12.99£9.09Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited GBP1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and... -
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen
RRP: £16.99£14.10Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical... -
Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence by David Omand 9780198785590
RRP: £26.49£18.61The question of how far a state should authorise its agents to go in seeking and using secret intelligence is one of the big unresolved issues of public policy for democracies today. The tension between security and privacy sits at the heart of broader... -
The Africans by David Lamb 9780394753089
£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394753089Author David LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making by Yountae An 9781478025108
RRP: £20.99£18.37In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter,... -
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? by John L. Esposito
RRP: £17.99£13.64Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-American religion has gripped the minds of Western governments and media. But these perceptions,... -
Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest
RRP: £20.00£16.83Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian." As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute... -
The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us by Sanne Blauw
RRP: £9.99£6.80NOW WITH NEW PROLOGUE ABOUT DEMYSTIFYING CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS, DONALD TRUMP AND WHY STATISTICS MATTER MORE THAN EVER'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
RRP: £14.99£12.15"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Globalization and the Crucible of Global Banking by Patrick M Wood 9780986373930
RRP: £12.95£10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986373930Author Patrick M WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Coherent PublishingPublisher Coherent PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 9780156701532
RRP: £24.99£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156701532Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement by A.S. Francis 9781913546373
RRP: £15.00£14.35This book recovers the neglected history of Gerlin Bean, an activist and community organiser in the Black radical movement of the 1960s-1980s. Gerlin Bean was one of the movement's most active participants, but like many such women little is documented... -
The Rights of Man: or, What Are We Fighting For? by H.G. Wells 9781913724702
RRP: £5.99£5.18In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made international waves. Wells, a socialist and prominent political thinker as well as a first-rate novelist, set down in The Rights of Man a stirring manifesto,... -
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan
RRP: £12.99£9.09A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere... -
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
RRP: £20.00£10.32Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently... -
How Change Happens by Cass R. Sunstein
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Finalist in the Next Big Ideas Club for Spring 2019 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780262538985Author Cass R. SunsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691236032
RRP: £16.99£13.71From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of... -
Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 by Neil R Storey
RRP: £25.00£17.62Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. ... -
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 Years After 9/11 by Deepa Kumar
£13.22In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "War on Terror." Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as... -
The Mismeasure Of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form by Patrick Murray
RRP: £45.00£34.40Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. In probing Marx's dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital,... -
The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts by Axel Honneth 9780745618388
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.About the AuthorAxel Honneth is a professor of philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt... -
Beyond A Fringe by Andrew Mitchell 9781785907616
RRP: £12.99£9.26A Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year A Guardian Political Book of the Year An Independent Political Book of the Year Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the... -
The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence by Loch K. Johnson 9780199929474
RRP: £57.00£54.57The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with... -
Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893 by Charles W Calhoun 9780805069525
RRP: £31.00£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069525Author Charles W. CalhounFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Introduction to International Relations by Joseph Grieco
RRP: £38.99£35.60This bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and approachable guide to international affairs. Bringing together decades of combined experience in researching and teaching global politics from three acclaimed scholars, this book... -
The Church's Unholy War: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy by Nicholas Denysenko 9781666748154
RRP: £20.00£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666748154Author Nicholas DenysenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law by Julie Dickson 9780199588770
£108.52The supranational law of the European Union represents a uniquely powerful, far-reaching, and controversial instance of the growth of international legal governance, one that has forever altered the political and legal landscape of its Member States. The... -
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 9780312658861
RRP: £28.00£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312658861Author Nicholas ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer 9781847927774
RRP: £14.99£12.00Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals'Probably the single most influential document in... -
A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock
RRP: £10.99£7.77In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-systemJames Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first... -
Guantanamo Diary: Restored Edition by Larry Siems
RRP: £18.99£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316517881Author Mohamedou Ould SlahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Covert Radar and Signals Interception: The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann by Peter Jackson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication... -
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations by Samuel P. Huntington
RRP: £33.95£27.81In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of... -
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
RRP: £15.99£14.62As Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk-and in the end, threaten everyone's well-being. Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America's... -
The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: To Kill a Mockingbird by Boris Volodarsky
RRP: £25.00£17.62In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of... -
Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World by Shepherd Siegel 9781631957307
RRP: £13.95£12.26Comedian Richard Pryor narrated the George Floyd murder in 1979, forty years before it occurred. A murder no one is laughing about. Yet when Pryor tells the story in very raw terms, and with his comic talent, the audience laughs. As a time-traveling... -
Politics: A complete introduction by Peter Joyce
RRP: £16.99£11.54Politics is a complex subject, but it doesn't have to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to having a firm grasp of the main topics in politics and... -
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society by Binyamin Appelbaum
RRP: £9.99£7.27'A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.' The Economist 'A highly readable, exhilaratingly detailed biographical account.' Sunday Telegraph As... -
When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House by Jeffrey A. Engel 9780190650759
RRP: £41.99£32.19What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped... -
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond by Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101
RRP: £15.99£13.42A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021,...