Political Science

Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly...

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in...

Known as the official handbook of the federal government, this annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038054Author Michel KorinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in...

The Panama Papers demonstrated that the superrich hide their wealth from the rest of us. Dirty Secrets shows that this was not by accident, but by design. It was the result of a powerful alliance of the wealthy, their advisers and the state that has...

Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern...

Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal"Neiberg is one of the...

This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived...

A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270755Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes's intellectual development, and...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250781284Author How Markets FailFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.The history of Russian espionage is soaked in...

Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice? Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this original...

A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! "Essential reading." -Antonio Carreno, Brown University "A watershed in scholarship." -Raphael Israeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Desperately, desperately needed as a counter to the mythology that...

A decade into the 21st century, our world is more interconnected than ever before. Yet even as the global community becomes increasingly more complex and competitive, the world is changing at a rapid pace. Just consider some of the major events of the...

Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these...

Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers...

This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the...

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"An essential read."-The Washington Post"Essential... This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of Doubt, Dark Money, and Kochland." -Roy Scranton, author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene"The petroleum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993465444Author Tom GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Scotview PublicationsPublisher Scotview PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g

An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901382Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

What shapes our sexuality? Is it a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have concepts of sexuality and sexual norms changed over time? How have feminist theories, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? Focusing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908702937Author Neil GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Red Robin BooksPublisher Red Robin BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland...

Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts...

Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means...

This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power...

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do...

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'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if we let them.' TIM HARFORDEven if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time...

Concepts have a particular importance for students of politics and international relations. Political argument often boils down to a struggle over the legitimate meaning of terms and enemies may argue, fight and even go to war, each claiming to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644535Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732932821Author Laurie StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scuppernong EditionsPublisher Scuppernong EditionsWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation... indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and...

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why...