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How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone: The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places by Rosie Garthwaite
RRP: €23.80€17.48Everyone needs this book if they want to know how to get out of difficult situations whether at home or abroad. Written by Rosie Garthwaite, whose career as a journalist started in war-torn Basra, this book combines practical advice with contributions... -
Emporium Rose Gan 9781915310088
RRP: €11.89€8.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915310088Author Rose GanFormat PaperbackImprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon Books -
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security by Andreas Fulda 9781350357020
€28.69As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People’s Republic of... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler 9781788161305
RRP: €29.75€26.41'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of... -
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America by Michael McFaul
RRP: €17.84€13.51'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'... -
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (Updated Edition) by Gary Younge 9781642599602
RRP: €17.84€12.07Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.This... -
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: from J.P. Morgan to Blackrock by Scott Aquanno 9781839765261
RRP: €23.79€19.54The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan's vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. Contrary to what is taken for common... -
Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume by Stephen Buckle 9780198240945
RRP: €66.64€63.32Stephen Buckle traces the history of theories of natural law, social order, and property through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9780198240945Author Stephen BuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Clarendon... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: €20.22€18.22According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the... -
The Honourable Ladies: Profiles of Women MPS 1918-1996: Volume I by Iain Dale 9781785902444
RRP: €35.70€25.68FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat - yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had... -
Thank You For Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich 9780593296318
RRP: €30.93€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296318Author Mark LeibovichFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Does Putin Have to Die?: The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine by Ilya Ponomarev
RRP: €26.18€16.72The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on his way to see Ponomarev when he was shot and killed... -
The Black Path: The Arctic Murders - A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery Asa Larsson 9781529432343
RRP: €13.08€9.06One of The Times' "Best Crime Novels by Women since 2000" "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews "In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as... -
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez 9781324002727
RRP: €26.17€22.07Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic... -
The Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray 9780745622590
RRP: €19.03€17.40In Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray argues that liberal thought has always contained two incompatible philosophies. In one, liberalism is a theory of a universal rational consensus, which enables the achievement of the best way of life for all... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: €11.89€8.71`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,... -
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order by Bruno Macaes 9781787380028
RRP: €29.75€26.22China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power Alex de Waal 9780745695587
RRP: €20.22€18.40The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war... -
The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization by Amrita Narlikar 9780198714774
€41.65The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its... -
Hitler's Secret War: The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies Charles Whiting 9781800325098
RRP: €15.46€9.85In the shadows was another war... An unputdownable account of the Nazi spy operation and how it ultimately failedDuring the Second World War there was, behind the scenes, a bitter conflict was stamped 'Top Secret'. It was a war of infiltration and... -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: €15.46€8.28The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,... -
International Development: Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge Michael Woolcock (Harvard Kennedy School, MA) 9781509545155
RRP: €19.03€17.15Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved. In this... -
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It by James Wilson
€27.62The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide... -
Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century by Douglas A. MacGregor 9780275957940
€46.99This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: €20.23€19.65In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
The Gulf Crisis and its Global Aftermath by Gad Barzilai 9781138184008
RRP: €44.02€38.71The crisis in the Gulf of 1990-1 affected more than just the regional powers in the area. Rippling outward, its military, economic and political effects were felt throughout the international political system, testing US steadfastness in the face of... -
Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson Ben Burgis 9781789045536
RRP: €17.84€15.51Jordan Peterson rocketed to fame in the 2010s and has preached on everything from the evils of postmodern neo-Marxism to the mating habits of lobsters ever since then. The Left has since leveled many criticisms about the Canadian psychologist,... -
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon by Stanley I. Kutler 9780393308273
RRP: €39.87€34.34"The definitive account of Watergate." -St. Louis Post-DispatchAbout the AuthorStanley I. Kutler is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin and author of several books on American constitutional history.Reviews"A... -
Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 by Tony Barnsley 9781905192649
RRP: €8.32€6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192649Author Tony BarnsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 88g -
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland 9780813349800
RRP: €70.20€61.75A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign... -
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Gripping ... revelatory ... unrivalled' Tom Holland, New Statesman'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from Connecticut to California: Graeme Wood's quest to understand the Islamic State is a round-the-world journey to the... -
Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line by David M. Farrell 9781501749322
RRP: €8.32€4.81The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around... -
The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on its way to the Old Continent Stephen Smith 9781509534579
RRP: €19.03€13.01From the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is one of the most urgent issues facing our societies today. At the same time, viable solutions seem ever... -
Judging Iran: A Memoir of The Hague, The White House, and Life on the Front Line of International Justice by Hon. Charles N. Brower 9781633310704
RRP: €32.07€24.36From a divided Berlin to the Hague, the Reagan White House, Nigeria, the forests of Costa Rica, and more, Judge Charles N. Brower shares a personal history of a life spent at the forefront of international justice- and a case for the role of... -
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
€25.18Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that... -
City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore by Supriya RoyChowdhury
RRP: €89.25€80.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108839365Author Supriya RoyChowdhuryFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska 9780691202457
RRP: €22.60€18.27A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle... -
Martin Bormann: Hitler's Executioner by Volker Koop 9781473886926
RRP: €29.75€20.97Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler... -
Sacre Bleu: Zidane to Mbappe - A football journey Matthew Spiro 9781785905544
RRP: €22.60€16.20Remember when Zinedine Zidane lifted the World Cup in 1998? Kylian Mbappe doesn't. The gifted young forward wasn't born when the French team became world champions for the first time. But it was Mbappe's unique talent that helped France to reach the... -
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
RRP: €13.08€8.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547228Author Sujatha GidlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books