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1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
£20.57With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros by Matt Palumbo
RRP: £17.99£10.34George Soros' web of influence is documented and exposed.No one else in modern politics has anywhere near the power and influence of George Soros, both domestically and internationally. Backed by the tens of billions of dollars he's accumulated... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781788738569
RRP: £9.99£9.88Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy... -
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden
RRP: £20.00£17.84In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called 'Kashmir' - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 9781632864123
RRP: £18.99£16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864123Author Carol AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 523g -
The Invention of Green Colonialism by Guillaume Blanc 9781509550890
RRP: £15.99£14.41The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization -... -
Urban Sketching: An artist's guide by Isabel Carmona Andreu 9781785007514
RRP: £14.99£12.55Urban sketching is centered on observing and drawing the environment around you, and sharing your drawings with like-minded groups in person and through social media. This book encourages you to get involved by picking up a pen and a sketchbook and... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
£32.30During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £14.99£10.95We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.Sweeping through the last thousand years of... -
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba by Stephen Purvis
RRP: £9.99£6.80WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had... -
Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World by Andrew Harvey
RRP: £25.00£16.24An inspiring manual for navigating humanity's collective dark night and enacting personal and planetary transformation* Explores how Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action--offers an antidote to the crises facing our... -
Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Dave Randall
RRP: £14.99£12.55Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up the... -
Political Economy for Public Policy by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita 9780691168746
RRP: £45.00£35.72This textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of the policymaking process. The book's distinct political economy approach has two virtues. By developing... -
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by John Gaddis 9780231122399
RRP: £32.00£25.16John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: £14.99£11.83An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
Space, Place and Gender by Doreen Massey 9780745612362
RRP: £18.99£16.87This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues. The book is... -
Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Bruce W. Jentleson
RRP: £12.99£9.09A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another... -
Equality: The Legal Framework by Bob Hepple
£41.96The second edition of this widely-acclaimed book about the Equality Act 2010 by one of its leading architects brings forward the story of how and why this historic legislation was enacted and what it means, to cover the first four years of its... -
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service by Melissa Benn
RRP: £8.99£7.40It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the most clear sighted and vocal campaigners for improving our schools. She shows here how we need to rethink education for life. As more and... -
'kill All The Gentlemen': Class struggle and change in the English countryside by Martin Empson 9781910885697
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885697Author Martin EmpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
American Politics and Society, 10e by David McKay
RRP: £33.95£31.58Provides an up-to-date introduction and analysis of the US political scene written from a comparative perspective, newly revised and updated throughout American Politics and Society in an accessible introduction to the main institutions of the US federal... -
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria by Sam Dagher
RRP: £14.99£11.66In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising -an act which... -
Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project by Commune or Nothing! Chris Gilbert 9781685900236
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900236Author Commune or Nothing! Chris GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S... -
Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air by Michael Alpert 9781788311182
RRP: £35.00£31.35The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new... -
Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee
RRP: £9.99£6.70*Includes updated post-election material.*The NHS devastated without so much as a by-your-leave; Gen Y hung out to dry; legal aid cut for the vulnerable; social housing on the brink of collapse . . .Cameron has been busy.Margaret Thatcher sold off the... -
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille
RRP: £12.99£9.09Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by... -
Station 43: Audley End House and SOE's Polish Section by Ian Valentine
RRP: £12.99£9.62Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at the stately home undertook a series of arduous training... -
The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: v.5: Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The CPGB 1951-68 by John Callaghan 9780853159582
RRP: £18.00£17.42This is Volume Five of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century, and covers the period from 1951 to 1968. The cold war was at its most intense during this period, and it was also the time of the dramas of 1956 -... -
Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget by Tim Weiner 9780446514521
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446514521Author Tim WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 273Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)... -
The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos by Mark Chiusano 9781668043677
RRP: £18.99£12.27From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America's most outrageous grifter-US Representative George Santos.America has grown used to larger-than-life... -
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521589260
RRP: £22.99£17.90The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each... -
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption by Phillip Brown
RRP: £29.49£19.04Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?,... -
The English Summer by Holly Hopkins 9781908058942
RRP: £9.99£6.99*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION* *A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation* Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie-faced' St George upstaged by the horse. The English Summer confronts the illusions... -
The First Afghan War 1839-42: Invasion, catastrophe and retreat by Richard Macrory
RRP: £15.99£13.33In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game - Afghanistan... -
The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series by David Lagercrantz 9780857059093
£4.76TO TIE-IN WITH THE SONY/YELLOW BIRD PRODUCTION STARRING CLAIRE FOY AS LISBETH SALANDER - RELEASED NOVEMBER 2018Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor... -
Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic by Roger Price 9781032186085
RRP: £31.99£28.73This book, first published in 1975, examines the events of the French Second Republic, the themes of protest and repression in particular. It analyses how popular discontent is mobilised and becomes political protest and revolution, and how the machinery... -
Modern Politics by C. L. R. James
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863116Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 177g -
The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781788734981
RRP: £14.99£12.55Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the... -
Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror by Halina Birenbaum 9781563247477
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to,... -
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East by Christopher Davidson
RRP: £16.99£12.68In this unparalleled investigation, Christopher Davidson exposes the true extent of Western interference in the Middle East over the past one hundred years. Drawing on the examination of hundreds of leaked and declassified documents, and interviews with...