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Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success by Dietrich Vollrath 9780226666006
RRP: £24.00£23.03Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed... -
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth 9781911508885
RRP: £9.99£6.99One disaffected administrator, one disenchanted teenager, four hundred and twenty-one vegan extremists, sixty trucks, and nine hundred thousand grumpy layer hens awaiting liberation. In barns. Six barns. No, wait, seven. No, wait ... Two auditors... -
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer
RRP: £18.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129682Author Singer JFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross
RRP: £25.00£16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095032Author Howard J. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
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... -
Economies of Recycling: The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations by Catherine Alexander 9781780321943
RRP: £23.99£23.80For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this... -
The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments 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 Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul M. Sweezy
RRP: £12.95£11.42Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become the classic analytical study of Marxist economics. Written by an economist who was a master of modern academic theory as well as Marxist literature, it has been recognized as the ideal textbook in... -
Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works by Giovanni Gentile
RRP: £44.99£39.28Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism, supplying its justifi cation and rationale as a developmental form of dictatorship for status-deprived nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers. Gentile's "actualism"... -
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner
RRP: £25.00£19.99Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns... -
Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780521444040
RRP: £72.99£64.16This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena in 1806, is widely... -
What is Anarchism? - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman by David Graeber
RRP: £16.00£13.84David Graeber was not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He was also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact on... -
Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £12.99£9.09Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History... -
Censored Art Today by Gareth Harris
RRP: £19.99£15.23Censored Art Today is an accessible, informed analysis of the debates raging around censorship of art and so-called 'cancel culture', focusing on who the censors are and why they are clamping down on forms of artistic expression worldwide. Art... -
Childhood poverty and social exclusion: From a child's perspective by Tess Ridge
RRP: £24.99£19.39Childhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and concerns of poor children themselves are being addressed is open to question. ... -
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons 9780199931156
RRP: £15.99£12.63In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires... -
Food or War by Julian Cribb 9781108712903
RRP: £15.99£8.94Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to war. But it also presents us with spectacular... -
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis
RRP: £9.99£6.75"Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb." - Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What's happening in global politics, and is there a... -
Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures by Dr Gareth Bryant 9781788214629
£25.45Climate change is increasingly contested on financial terms. Different actors are advancing competing climate visions and interests by adopting financial positions. International institutions urge action by identifying financing gaps needed to meet... -
Should Rich Nations Help the Poor? by David Hulme
RRP: £14.99£13.58In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs. But should rich nations continue... -
Tales Of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133926Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics by Bleddyn E Bowen
RRP: £25.99£21.06This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations.About the AuthorBleddyn E. Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Leicester.Book InformationISBN... -
Ike and Kay by James MacManus
RRP: £8.99£6.13From the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz, Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice and heartbreak, set against the backdrop of the most tumultuous period of the twentieth century. It is... -
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History by Rebecca E. Karl
RRP: £19.99£17.54Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a... -
The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen 9781509545285
RRP: £40.00£26.15In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later,... -
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell 9781443466745
RRP: £25.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dafoe Book Prize (United States) and New Brunswick Book Awards, Non-Fiction (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781443466745Author Jason BellFormat HardbackPage... -
The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin 9781873176047
RRP: £13.95£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Why Climate Breakdown Matters by Dr Rupert Read
RRP: £21.99£18.09Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a... -
A Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey 9781844673599
RRP: £23.99£23.80"My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms."The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
£12.30But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous... -
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector by Sara Roy
RRP: £28.00£21.80Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West... -
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Bales 9781851688159
RRP: £9.99£6.41Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises... -
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S Reynolds
RRP: £23.00£21.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110767Author David S. ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 958gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Last Days of T.E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind by Paul Marriott 9781898595229
£40.98"It is quiet here now, and I feel as though I were fixed in my cottage for good. It is as I thought ... something is finished with my leaving the RAF. ... It gets worse instead of healing over ... At present the feeling is mere bewilderment. I imagine... -
Diplomatic Incidents: Memoirs of an (Un)diplomatic Wife by Cherry Denman
RRP: £9.99£6.80Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name... -
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish 9780195093834
RRP: £22.49£15.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category by Thomas Dixon 9780521026697
RRP: £22.99£20.66Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth... -
The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds 9780199697687
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas... -
Globalization of Education: An Introduction by Joel Spring 9780415749862
RRP: £52.99£46.03Continuing Joel Spring's reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear,... -
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9781501145247
RRP: £30.00£17.89The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and...