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The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners by Jonathan Tarbatt
RRP: $88.20$72.18The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those buildings. The importance of the block to city life is well... -
The Ascent Of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement by Melanie Phillips
RRP: $31.48$20.58The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet... -
Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power by Frank Vogl 9781442218536
RRP: $63.00$56.03Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest... -
Black British History: New Perspectives by Hakim Adi
RRP: $48.28$42.23For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who... -
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial by Somdeep Sen
RRP: $48.28$42.02In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation... -
Geographies of Food: An Introduction by Moya Kneafsey
RRP: $67.18$64.53What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food,... -
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries by Neville Bolt
RRP: $37.78$34.73Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutionised the way ideas, messages and images are disseminated, and the speed with which they travel. First... -
THE BOOK OF STANIER 8F 2-8-0s: PART 2 : 48126-48297 by Ian Sixsmith 9781911262282
RRP: $62.90$46.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911262282Author Ian SixsmithFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press -
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese by Troy J. Sacquety 9780700620180
$76.02One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,"" said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it ""the most forbidding fighting country imaginable."" But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most... -
Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder by James B. Stewart
RRP: $35.68$26.44Shows how an apparently respectable young doctor murdered patients and poisoned co-workers while being consistently protected by an oblivious and dangerously secretive medical establishment.Book InformationISBN 9780684865638Author James B. StewartFormat... -
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: $41.98$37.99This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of... -
Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
RRP: $56.70$41.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038010Author Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm -
I.w.w. Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book by PM Press
RRP: $12.58$8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869507Author PM PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 47g -
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future by John Milbank 9781783486496
RRP: $90.30$80.18Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left - free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life... -
The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova
RRP: $31.48$20.37'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bleriot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on... -
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India by Lance Price
RRP: $23.08$15.54How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. ... -
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel 9780804139298
RRP: $65.10$36.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139298Author Peter ThielFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown CurrencyPublisher Crown CurrencyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 143mm *... -
Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security by Jeffrey Mankoff
$64.55How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international order Eurasia's major powers-China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey-increasingly intervene across their borders while seeking to pull their... -
Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance and the Limits of Privacy by John Gilliom
RRP: $48.30$46.47In Overseers of the Poor, John Gilliom confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best-the watched. Arguing that the current public conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife... -
The Colonial Counter-Revolution: From de Gaulle to Sarkozy by Sadri Khiari
RRP: $33.58$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901467Author Sadri KhiariFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation by Matthias Dilling 9780226830254
RRP: $54.60$52.19An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy... -
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty
RRP: $52.50$45.76In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun rights... -
Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism by Karl Kautsky 9781642593372
RRP: $63.00$41.75Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas... -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger 9780593489444
RRP: $75.60$38.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593489444Author Henry KissingerFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 765gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up by Charles Taylor
RRP: $27.20$22.76"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." -Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $33.58$24.38________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Lessons of Criminology by Gilbert Geis
RRP: $220.50$191.65Presents the stories, musings, advice and conclusions of well-known criminologists about their research and their careers. Provides readers with suggestions about how to manage their professional lives. Contributors include Frank Cullen, Julius Debro,... -
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
RRP: $20.98$9.89In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first,... -
Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson 9781785906640
RRP: $39.88$29.00From the Nuremberg trials to the arrest of General Pinochet to the prosecution of barbarians of the Balkans, we have crafted a global human rights law to punish crimes against humanity. And yet today it is rarely applied: the International Criminal Court... -
One Man, Two Worlds: Memoir of a Businessman in Politics by Richard Needham
RRP: $31.48$26.36"I came from a family of barely solvent aristocrats..." So begins one of the most refreshingly honest memoirs to have appeared in recent years. Richard Needham looks back on a life that straddles the worlds of commerce and politics, and that deeply... -
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian
RRP: $63.00$48.91Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian... -
A Rebel's Guide To James Connolly by Sean Mitchell 9781910885086
RRP: $6.30$5.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885086Author Sean MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 51g -
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
RRP: $48.30$30.37Apologies 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... -
The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
RRP: $77.68$68.31"The most thought-provoking and refreshing work on Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia in a long time.It is certainly an immense contribution to the broadening schools within international relations." Times Higher Education (THE). Written in both... -
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey
RRP: $58.78$50.69Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of... -
The Resistible Rise Of Benito Mussolini by Tom Behan
RRP: $16.80$11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876908Author Tom BehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 162g -
A Cultural History of Climate by Wolfgang Behringer
RRP: $37.78$33.68Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: $31.48$20.75Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 by V.I. Lenin
$92.93Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to... -
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott E. Page
RRP: $63.00$49.75How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if...