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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: £37.95£36.37A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
The Histories: v. 3, Bk. 5-8 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780226801063
RRP: £24.00£23.43"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every... -
Pragmatism: An Introduction by Michael Bacon 9780745646657
RRP: £17.99£16.04Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the... -
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
RRP: £10.99£9.00The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor
RRP: £35.00£26.73'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
From the Corner of the Oval Office: One woman's true story of her accidental career in the Obama White House by Beck Dorey-Stein
RRP: £8.99£6.45_____________________________'If you've ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.' Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New... -
Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives by Ralph B. Levering 9780847694082
RRP: £30.00£26.68Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist,... -
Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe by Giovanni Capoccia
RRP: £30.50£29.72How does an established democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from legitimate political parties within the system? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia studies key European... -
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307277909Author John Milton CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role by John A. Thompson 9780801447891
RRP: £23.99£21.24Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this... -
Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time by Ben Crewe 9781349849932
RRP: £24.99£19.19This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at... -
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £32.99£29.16The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and... -
The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9780853152170
RRP: £14.00£13.46This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students.Book InformationISBN 9780853152170Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The 9/11 Dogs: The heroes who searched for survivors at Ground Zero (HarperTrue Friend - A Short Read) by Isabel George 9780008105099
RRP: £5.99£4.46Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers. Many heroes were made on 9/11 and in the weeks that followed. Not all of them showed human courage. Some of them could only show that they were truly man's best friend... -
Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence by Cecile Fabre 9780198833765
RRP: £34.49£29.67Cecile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. Espionage and counter-intelligence activities, both real and imagined, weave a complex and alluring story. Yet there is hardly any serious philosophical work on... -
Housing for Hope and Wellbeing by Flora Samuel
RRP: £21.99£19.34Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing... -
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion by Naomi Braine 9781804292068
RRP: £14.99£12.55Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, information, and support to people seeking to end unwanted... -
The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563570Author Robert KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700 by Gabriel Glickman
RRP: £30.00£29.25How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in... -
The Axis Occupation of Europe Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey 9781870067935
RRP: £39.95£33.93Winston and Gail Ramsey This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the Second World War. It would be easy to assume that the administration of each country was carried out on... -
Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us by David Whyte
RRP: £9.99£7.23We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393356977
RRP: £7.99£7.69World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche-and psychoses-of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in... -
Iran, Islam and Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change by Ali M. Ansari 9781909942981
£30.09Current developments in Iran are forcing a fundamentalreassessment of the relationship between Islam and democracyand the processes of democratization in the Muslim world.While some scholars have argued that 'Islam' and 'democracy'are essentially... -
Bringing the State Back In by Peter B. Evans 9780521313131
RRP: £30.99£26.83Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer
RRP: £38.00£30.01A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In... -
Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital by Erica Borg
RRP: £19.99£13.35Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech... -
Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines by Jamie Merisotis 9780795353482
RRP: £16.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795353482Author Jamie MerisotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £18.99£12.48In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the... -
The British Constitution by Anthony King 9780199576982
RRP: £43.99£34.94In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
RRP: £35.00£28.14Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations-a world in which self-determination was... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II by John H. Gill
RRP: £16.99£12.68In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon's progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria's invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had... -
Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC by N. Piers Ludlow 9780521595360
RRP: £30.99£28.28Britain's 1961 application was the first time that the European Community was obliged to consider a membership application from one of its neighbours. This 1997 book, based on material from the archives, challenges traditional views of the British... -
Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It by Jo Swinson
RRP: £8.99£6.08Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian)Why does power remain concentrated in the hands of men?And why do the problems of sexism sometimes feel just too big to solve?In this passionate call to arms, leader of... -
The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy by Katherine Trebeck
RRP: £14.99£12.13What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world's most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled... -
Something Has Gone Wrong: Dealing with the Brighton Bomb by Steven G. Ramsey 9781785903366
RRP: £12.99£9.26On 12 October 1984, an IRA bomb exploded inside Brighton's Grand Hotel, killing five people and injuring thirty. It was an assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, who were staying there for the Conservative party conference. While... -
Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics by Julie Burchill 9781680532340
RRP: £28.50£21.50In 2013, Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous piece in the Observer to defend her friend Suzanne Moore. Burchill had not anticipated the vitriolic reaction that her words would provoke. She was pursued by the outrage mob, and there were even calls in the... -
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable 9780393309850
RRP: £22.99£18.92How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear. The authors explain and illuminate the rift in Chilean society that widened dramatically during the Pinochet era.About the AuthorPamela Constable is a Deputy Foreign... -
New Elites: A Career in the Masses by George Walden
RRP: £9.99£8.17Far from becoming classless, Britain's elite is increasingly formed by a select group of professional egalitarians. Rather than aim to raise popular aspirations, they exploit mass taste, mass gullibility, mass spending power for their personal... -
Crisis by Sylvia Walby 9780745647616
RRP: £15.99£14.41We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which...