Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Intelligence in An Insecure World Peter Gill (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 9781509525201
RRP: €29.74€25.95Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who... -
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne 9780745335322
RRP: €20.22€13.93A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of... -
Vertical Empire, A: History Of The British Rocketry Programme by C. N. Hill 9781848167964
RRP: €47.60€42.05A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development... -
Florilegia by Annabel Dover 9781913430047
RRP: €11.90€9.85"The blue and white print has the night-time glow of a Joseph Cornell ice-cube box or a Stan Brakhage film, the poppy glows candescent but is gone. Anna Atkins' dirty fingernails are pressing the damp skin of the poppy into cotton wadding and blotting... -
The British General Election of 2001 by D. Butler 9780333740330
RRP: €53.54€53.51The definitive guide to the General Election is now in its sixteenth edition. The renowned series from Nuffield College, Oxford, which covers every postwar British election, provides the authoritative, highly readable description and analysis of the... -
Human Rights - Illusory Freedom: Why we should repeal the Human Rights Act Luke Gittos 9781785356872
RRP: €13.08€11.27A progressive argument for repealing the Human Rights Act. Contrary to contemporary panic around human rights repeal, Human Rights - Illusory Freedom puts a progressive case against the Human Rights Act. It describes how human rights arose as a new... -
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell 9781804292495
RRP: €15.46€13.29With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new form of politics... -
Hospitality, Volume II by Jacques Derrida 9780226831305
RRP: €42.84€36.14Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
Deception by Edward Lucas
RRP: €13.08€9.37________________________________ 'Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly.' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times ... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: €33.32€26.35Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that... -
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney 9781787636668
RRP: €17.84€16.10An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events... -
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress 9780743264884
RRP: €29.74€27.94An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, "From Plato to NATO" is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest... -
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose by Ian O'Donnell
RRP: €28.55€24.80How prisons around the world shape the social lives of their inhabitants Prison Life offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organize their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780099540748
RRP: €7.13€5.51WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised... -
New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing by Lester M. Salamon 9780199357543
RRP: €92.82€70.40With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health and environmental degradation ballooning daily, it is increasingly clear that new models for financing and promoting... -
Financialization and Local Statecraft by Andy Pike 9780192856661
€85.55The UK government reduced expenditure and introduced local financial self-sufficiency in pursuing austerity after the 2008 crash, forcing local governments in England to find savings and new income sources to close funding gaps. As new financial... -
Black Mountain: and other stories Gerry Adams 9781847176301
RRP: €14.27€10.83In this collection, one of Ireland's best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship. These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in times... -
Fy Llyfr Englynion Cyhoeddiadau Barddas 9781911584322
€8.53A rich selection of 22 englynion - four line stanzas in strict metre - by various poets, aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils. The englynion either tell a story or are descriptive, and will be words that children of this age can identify with or are traditional... -
International Relations Theories by Peter Lawler 9780198784890
RRP: €45.21€43.10A comprehensive and accessible introduction to international relations theories with a unique emphasis on positioning IR theories within their social, political, and historical contexts to help students fully understand IR theories and their influence. ... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney 9780571312382
€7.53How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics? Sam Delaney wanted to find out more about the strange relationship between British politics and advertising. What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and... -
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre
RRP: €27.95€19.77At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and... -
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 9780312658861
RRP: €33.32€23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312658861Author Nicholas ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: €21.41€17.37Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation... -
Human Rights Law Merris Amos (Queen Mary, University of London) 9781509933297
RRP: €65.44€58.74This textbook comprehensively examines and analyses the interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998. The third edition has been fully updated to include the last seven years of case law. Part I covers key procedural... -
Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Essential Biology: Student Book Third Edition by Richard Fosbery 9781382006033
RRP: €33.31€31.96The Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Essential Biology Student Book is at the heart of delivering the course and provides a clear, step-by-step route though the syllabus that is ideal for EAL learners. It has been fully updated and matched to the latest... -
Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin 9781608468522
RRP: €17.84€13.88Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little understood phenomenon, Zetkin's work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.Excerpts in Jacobin, ISR,... -
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War by Lukasz Stanek 9780691168708
RRP: €71.40€57.92How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in... -
Patrolling the Cold War Skies: Reheat Sunset by Philip Keeble 9781781555965
RRP: €35.70€26.22This is a flying adventure book set within the framework of the Cold War and told through the lens of the RAF Pilot's Flying Log Book. Philip Keeble's logbooks cover ten different types of aircraft: from learning to fly in a Chipmunk trainer in 1965,... -
The Inhumanity of Right by Christos Yannaras 9780227177556
RRP: €27.97€24.54Christos Yannaras pioneering critique of the concept of the right of the individual is presented in English for the first time. This central aspect of political theory (since Hegels Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical and cultural identity... -
Fashion and Politics by Djurdja Bartlett
RRP: €44.63€40.33A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new... -
A Social History of Western Political Thought by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: €29.75€24.16In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political... -
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband
RRP: €15.46€13.10When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him - from both left and right - praised his work and character. He was lauded as "one of the best-known... -
Brazil Apart: 1964-2019 by Perry Anderson
RRP: €20.22€16.78What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world, offers a matchless... -
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith by Gilbert Rist 9781786997562
RRP: €27.36€25.56In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system,... -
Understanding Naval Warfare Ian Speller (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9781032223339
RRP: €42.83€38.01This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant... -
Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal 9781913743819
RRP: €35.70€28.76Now back in print... This groundbreaking handbook (first published in 2015 by Oberon and now needed more than ever in the face of multiple unfolding crises) is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to harness their creativity to... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: €11.89€9.25Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War by Grey Anderson 9781804292372
RRP: €23.79€19.54Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military budgets and inflows of combat-ready troops and... -
New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph 9781946885142
RRP: €15.46€14.58Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization,... -
Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered by Jon Davis
RRP: €37.47€27.26Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'...