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Bordering on Chaos: Mexico's Roller-Coaster Journey toward Peace by Andre Oppenheimer 9780316650250
RRP: $52.48$37.04A political examination of contemporary Mexico.Book InformationISBN 9780316650250Author Andre OppenheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 431g -
Poles Apart: Why divisions deepen and societies splinter by Ali Goldsworthy
RRP: $42.00$37.00We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter... -
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook 9780745325552
RRP: $56.68$36.94This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly... -
A Sense of Inequality by Wendy Bottero 9781783487875
RRP: $81.90$75.75We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people's everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: $104.98$93.45In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American... -
Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context by Barbara Rogoff 9780195070033
$205.13In this book, the author explores the mental developmental of children. unlike Piaget, Rogoff sees learning as an apprenticeship - a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills. The... -
Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith by Istvan Hont 9780674967700
RRP: $75.50$60.82Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in... -
Means And Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States by Zoe Baker 9781849354981
RRP: $44.10$30.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354981Author Zoe BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster by Oliver Letwin
RRP: $20.98$14.07'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review'Timely' -- New StatesmanAs the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $10.50$9.28Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry Adamsky
RRP: $58.78$50.69A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics,... -
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism by Jim Stanford
RRP: $48.28$32.70Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Through clear bite-sized chapters interspersed with illuminating illustrations, this is an... -
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State & Total War by Ludwig von Mises 9780865977549
RRP: $23.00$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977549Author Ludwig von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 578g -
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea
$23.84The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical--and sometimes revolutionary--possibilities of our... -
International Human Rights by Philip Alston
RRP: $130.18$124.70International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is... -
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality by G. A. Cohen 9780521477512
RRP: $48.28$37.84In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said... -
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff 9781455582273
$46.73THIRTEEN HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. This is the story, told in incredible, spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground--in the U.S. State Department Special... -
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
RRP: $27.28$24.07A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform... -
False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World by Philip Marshall 9781439202647
RRP: $31.48$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439202647Author Philpi MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge Publishing -
America Under Covid by Lawrence Wright
RRP: $42.00$27.51'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our... -
A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland by Mark Coen
RRP: $46.18$38.01Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in... -
Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy by Callum Cant 9781509535514
RRP: $31.48$20.58What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. His vivid... -
A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke 9781611854558
RRP: $18.88$12.77P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays... -
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Hein de Haas
$86.71Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they... -
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia by Dee Peyok
RRP: $35.68$24.32In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers cycled along the... -
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
RRP: $29.38$20.81The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future--now. One recent estimate predicts 13 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next seven years-jobs that won't be replaced. In a future... -
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: Or the Realm of Shadows by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: $39.88$39.54Henri Lefebvre saw Marx as an 'unavoidable, necessary, but insufficient starting point', and always insisted on the importance of Hegel to understanding Marx. Metaphilosophy also suggested the significance he ascribed to Nietzsche, in the 'realm of... -
Introducing Swedenborg: Correspondences by Gary Lachman 9780854482160
RRP: $18.80$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482160Author Gary LachmanFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society -
Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by David Caute
RRP: $42.00$29.51In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth columnists to Soviet spies and today's domestic extremists... -
Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 by Helmut Walser Smith
RRP: $37.78$32.32For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 4: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader by Jeremy Noakes 9780859893114
RRP: $46.18$42.57Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life... -
Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention by Mona Delahooke
RRP: $52.48$34.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683730552Author Mona DelahookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint PESI Publishing & MediaPublisher PESI Publishing & Media -
How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy by Rainer Kattel
RRP: $42.00$39.65WINNER OF THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT'S 2023 GEORGE R. TERRY BOOK AWARD A groundbreaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also persevere, in order to advance technology and innovation From self-driving cars to smart grids,... -
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree-A British Agent in the French Resistance by Jonathan Ree
RRP: $25.18$21.32The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words"A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Ree. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and letters from French comrades combine to paint a... -
There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution by Marcello Tari
RRP: $27.28$18.12"A powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit of [happiness and revolution], and fuels it, and constitutes and ruptures its vagrant, open end."-Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The... -
Street Warrior: The True Story of the Nypd's Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him, as Seen on Discovery Channel's "street Justice: The Bronx" by Ralph Friedman
RRP: $46.18$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250190437Author Ralph FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK by Alex Stevens 9781529231328
RRP: $168.00$127.83How is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations - the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral... -
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288
RRP: $56.70$23.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509288Author Ibram X. KendiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems by Richard T. Pascale
RRP: $46.20$33.37Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice?... -
Working Effectively with 'Personality Disorder': Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Clinical and Organisational Practice by Jo Ramsden 9781912755974
$85.53The history of 'personality disorder' services is problematic to say the least. The very concept of 'personality disorder' is under heavy fire, services are often expensive and ineffective, and many service users report feeling that they have been lied...