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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
RRP: $46.18$40.30WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey
RRP: $39.88$26.78A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we... -
New Corporation by Joel Bakan
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899729Author Joel BakanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Marxists In The Face Of Fascism: Writings by Marxists on Fascism From the Inter-war Period by David Beetham 9781608469765
RRP: $46.18$28.14Fascism's ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s & 30s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in history. Far from inevitable, this catastrophic defeat was resisted at every turn by Marxists of varying stripes who tried,... -
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS by Zarifa Ghafari 9780349017020
RRP: $23.08$15.54A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: $81.90$77.28Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton 9780691248479
RRP: $73.50$49.94A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at... -
Angolan War of Liberation: Colonial-Communist Clash, 1961-1974 by Al J. Venter 9781526728418
RRP: $31.48$29.36When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three... -
Proceedings Before the European Patent Office: A Practical Guide to Success in Opposition and Appeal, Second Edition by Marcus O. Muller 9781788115339
RRP: $132.20$117.60The second edition of this acclaimed and widely-used book has been thoroughly updated in light of, among others, the revised Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal, which entered into force in January 2020. It provides the first detailed... -
Revolt on the Clyde: The Classic Autobiography of Red Clydeside by William Gallacher
RRP: $27.30$26.38Tanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law.This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919.Revolt on the Clyde is William Gallacher's eye witness account of these tumultuous events - and more - in an era that... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: $52.50$37.84The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in... -
Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson
RRP: $46.18$40.30Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer 9781529111583
RRP: $23.08$16.32*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*'A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?' The TimesAmerica is in crisis. In the space of a generation... -
Flying the Buccaneer: Britain's Cold War Warrior by Peter Caygill 9781844156696
RRP: $41.98$29.99Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surfaces to increase lift when landing. The rotating bomb... -
All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Monique El-Faizy
RRP: $42.00$28.88Based on groundbreaking original reporting, an extensive new look at Donald Trump's relationships with women, revealing new accusations of sexual misconduct, exploring the roots of his alleged predatory behaviour, and illustrating how Trump's... -
Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 by David Cesarani
RRP: $35.68$25.79In May 1947 a Jewish teenager was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem. He was never seen alive again. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. Farran was... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: $23.08$16.32John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human. At the heart of all... -
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch
RRP: $27.28$18.06Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era. As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967,... -
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger
RRP: $41.90$34.69Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the... -
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations by Tuba Inal
RRP: $50.38$43.76Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of... -
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot - The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence by Lloyd
RRP: $27.28$18.06The Scottish nationalists seek to end the United Kingdom after 300 years of a successful union. Their drive for an independent Scotland is now nearer to success than it has ever been. Success would mean a diminished Britain and a perilously insecure... -
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong
RRP: $63.00$62.90On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds... -
Critique of Forms of Life by Rahel Jaeggi
RRP: $88.10$70.56For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But... -
Lobby Life: Inside Westminster's Secret Society by Carole Walker
RRP: $35.68$24.70The unassuming brown laminated card issued to Westminster lobby journalists is a VIP pass to the heart of our political world, allowing reporters to roam the corridors of power, to collar MPs for a private word. As a Political Correspondent for the BBC,... -
Imperialism and the National Question by V I Lenin 9781804292716
RRP: $31.48$26.54Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was... -
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break by Ostap Kushnir 9781498558631
RRP: $189.00$165.50This book first proves that the rationale behind Russia's aggressive actions in its neighborhood resides in its goal of achieving certain geostrategic objectives which are largely predefined by the state's imperial traditions, memories, and fears that... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Professor Daron Acemoglu 9780307719218
RRP: $69.30$41.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719218Author Daron AcemogluFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 833gDimensions(mm) 239mm *... -
INSIDERS OUTSIDERS by Mary Carter 9781912130528
$37.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912130528Author Mary CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Kirwin Maclean AssociatesPublisher Kirwin Maclean Associates -
Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker 9780691243030
RRP: $58.80$45.78How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up... -
Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left by Ben Burgis
RRP: $23.08$19.68Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called "actually existing socialism," and the long exile of even social democrats from the levers of real power, we have gotten far too used to thinking of leftism as a... -
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy by Ryan Patrick Hanley 9780691154053
RRP: $88.20$71.48Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the... -
Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism by Simon Brooks 9781786830128
RRP: $35.68$27.49Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the 'progressive'... -
The Twitmarsh Files by R. T. Fishall 9780752455044
RRP: $16.78$12.92Patrick Moore is Britain's most respected and best-loved astronomer. But under his nom de plume R. T. Fishall, he is also the scourge of bureaucratic incompetence, exposing stupidity wherever he finds it, especially amongst tax inspectors and traffic... -
Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier by John M. Hobson 9781108744034
RRP: $65.08$57.06Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional Eurocentric Big Bang theory, or the 'expansion of the West'... -
This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by William Davies
RRP: $20.98$17.16Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making: but this is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the... -
Historical Capitalism: with Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein
RRP: $25.18$22.85In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved over the centuries, and what has remained constant,... -
Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage by Peter A. Hall 9780199247752
RRP: $123.90$105.86What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: $27.28$21.67In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a... -
A Herstory of Economics by Kuiper
RRP: $115.50$100.23There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman - right? Wrong! In this book, distinguished economist...