Political Science

Forrest Galante, host of Extinct or Alive and the world's #1 rare species expert, takes readers along with him through the deepest wilderness and most remote and dangerous parts of the world to find all the animals we thought were extinct. In the course...

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government policies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643773Author Stephen BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032249Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value...

Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an...

Mobilizing existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and other social services. These are common themes in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much...

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are...

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary...

How do Black women experience education in Britain? Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely absent, male-dominated or American-centric. Due to the lack of attention paid to Black female students,...

Civil Liberties and Human Rights provides a straightforward and stimulating account of this fascinating area of law. This essential textbook covers all the key topics on undergraduate human rights modules including crucial areas such as police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120315Author David RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing...

A fully revised, new edition of Person-centred Active Support self-study guide, including new video. This book is designed to provide the learner with knowledge about what active support is, why it is important, what it looks like in practice, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905720Author Catrin EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's Press

'A masterly account...the best survey of global affairs I have read for some time' Sunday TimesWITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORThe West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a...

In recent decades, private jets have become status symbols for the world's wealthiest, while quick and easy flights have brought far-flung destinations within the reach of everyone. But at what cost to the environment? Around the world, flying emits...

During 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422530Author Daniel A. SjursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing...

"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe...

The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the...

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse...

In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World: Theories and Practices, second edition, twenty-three respected scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary diplomacy and its future theoretical and practical directions. Filling a gap...

Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) is a massive figure in the history of western thought and of the Catholic church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson (whose modern rendition of Augustine's City of God has already been widely...

What would you do if Jesus appeared to you in a dream and told you to follow Him? What if these visions continued for over thirty days? And what if you were Muslim?Pastor Tom Doyle has spent eleven years as a full-time missionary in the Middle East and...

Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year"A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us."-Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of BooksHow did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A...

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor...

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and...

Kate Fox's new collection The Oscillations explores distance and isolation in the age of the pandemic, refracted through the lenses of neurodiversity and trauma in poems that are bold, often frank and funny. Dazzling and open-hearted poems of...

See 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...

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's...

Beloved and award-winning author Anne Fine returns with a touching, musical story of patience, practice and courage. Everyone's always telling Will to stop making so much noise. That is, until he meets music teacher Mr Brand. He thinks Will's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230843Author Donald RumsfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in discourse, treaties and in domestic jurisdictions. However, as this study shows, the debate around this development is actually about...

Realpolitik is approaching its 160th birthday, though it has existed as a form of statecraft for centuries and is arguably as old as the conduct of foreign affairs itself. Associated with great thinkers from Machiavelli to Kissinger, it is deeply rooted...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993560729Author John Wilson FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Belcouver PressPublisher Belcouver PressWeight(grams) 551g

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe...