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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £30.00£19.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593492673Author Mariana MazzucatoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the Us Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III by Stephen Lendman 9780986073144
RRP: £15.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986073144Author Stephen LendmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber
RRP: £24.99£21.78Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic... -
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition by Peter Janney 9781510708921
RRP: £16.99£12.68"Reads like a John Grisham thriller crossed with an Oliver Stone movie."-Boston Globe. "This is a must-read."-Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy. "A fascinating story."-Oliver StoneThe death of Mary Meyer left many Americans... -
Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes by Julie Michelle Klinger
RRP: £25.99£22.49Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie... -
Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge by Maged Mandour 9780755649136
RRP: £20.00£15.32Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt's brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regime has unleashed mass repression and severe restrictions on an unprecedented scale. This has been... -
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 by Pieter C. Emmer
RRP: £26.99£23.20How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global... -
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
RRP: £23.00£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118008Author Martin JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm... -
Populism: A Beginner's Guide by Simon Tormey
RRP: £9.99£7.55Every day we hear that the rise of populism threatens democracy around the world, but is this really true? Did populism cause the current crisis, or is it the other way around? To understand the state of our politics right now, we must get to grips... -
The Golden Treasure of the Entente Cordiale by Michel Becker 9782956862925
RRP: £27.99£23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782956862925Author Michel BeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Editions de la Chouette d'OrPublisher Editions de la Chouette d'Or -
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
RRP: £20.99£19.61While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere, there is a parallel movement emerging within the business community that will shake the very foundation of the global economy in coming years. The key sectors that make up the... -
No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan by Ben Anderson 9781851689774
£14.69The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this powerful and shocking expose from the front lines in Helmand... -
Beyond Survival by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781849353625
RRP: £14.00£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353625Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples by Mark R. Duffield 9780745635804
£19.04According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability - even in the most distant places - the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing... -
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation by J. C. Sharman
RRP: £50.00£43.41Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries... -
The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead by David Bollier
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking was born of a simple realization: The world we have inherited is no longer working. The future of the planet and civilization as we know it are threatened, and the cries heard during the pandemic and Black Lives... -
Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War by Tony Wood
RRP: £10.99£8.94It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage. In Russia itself, he is likewise... -
Class War: A Decade of Disorder by Ian Bone
£14.13For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton '81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside '91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their streets. With a petrol bomb in one hand a biro in the other, Class War was there. And Class War is... -
The First European Revolution: 970-1215 by Robert I. Moore
RRP: £30.95£27.45This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.About the AuthorR. I. Moore has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1993. He previously taught at... -
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia by Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
RRP: £27.49£24.20This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and... -
Endgame Vol.1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen 9781583227305
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227305Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 561g -
Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating Our Future by Cedric Durand
£16.42The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of "fictitious capital" and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9781853264801
RRP: £4.99£3.51Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text... -
The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir by David Goodall by Frank Sheridan 9780901510877
£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901510877Author Frank SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint National University of IrelandPublisher National University of IrelandWeight(grams)... -
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Wilson 9780801456831
RRP: £16.99£14.07In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently... -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: £10.99£7.40Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and... -
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden by Peter L. Bergen
RRP: £12.99£8.18The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the "riveting" (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to... -
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj
RRP: £20.00£19.79Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier... -
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution by Susan L. Woodward 9780815795131
RRP: £25.00£22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815795131Author Susan L. WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Taming Childhood?: A Critical Perspective on Policy, Practice and Parenting by Rob Creasy 9783030118419
RRP: £49.99£44.97This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and... -
Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action by Sarah Miller Beebe 9781483340166
RRP: £76.00£67.24In Cases in Intelligence Analysis, accomplished instructors and intelligence practitioners Sarah Miller Beebe and Randolph H. Pherson offer robust, class-tested cases studies of events in foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, terrorism, homeland... -
Improving the Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies and the Governance Challenge by Lars Niklasson 9780367730277
RRP: £21.99£19.34Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development. Adopted unanimously by the member states of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the... -
Analysing Corruption by Dan Hough 9781911116554
RRP: £24.99£23.26Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research... -
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James
RRP: £23.95£20.97For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist... -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £27.99£21.91German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an... -
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu 9780521855266
RRP: £80.00£38.55This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the... -
Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets by Cornelia Woll 9780691250328
RRP: £35.00£27.74The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud,... -
EU Law and Governance by Mark Dawson
RRP: £29.99£26.67What is the EU for? In light of the current state of European integration, EU law cannot meaningfully be appreciated without understanding the political, social and cultural context within which it operates. This textbook proposes a fresh, accessible and... -
Understanding Peacekeeping, Third Edition by Paul D. Williams
RRP: £19.99£18.09Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory,... -
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies by David T. Koyzis
RRP: £27.99£19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852420Author David T. KoyzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm *...