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Star Wars Be More Leia: Find Your Rebel Voice And Fight The System by Christian Blauvelt
RRP: £6.99£5.71This novelty Star Wars book is full of wise words and sage advice from the galaxy's leading rebel, Princess Leia, and many other brave, confident characters. Full of Star Wars quotes, witty advice and stills from the iconic films, this book will help... -
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall by Scott Mainwaring 9780521152242
RRP: £28.99£22.85This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Anibal... -
Alpha: a reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
RRP: £16.99£11.58The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was inspired to serve his nation, who became addicted to combat, and whose need to prove... -
The Spy Toolkit: Extraordinary inventions from World War II by The National Archives
RRP: £10.99£7.77Spies claim that theirs is the second oldest profession. Secret agents across time have had the same key tasks: looking and listening, getting the information they need and smuggling it back home. Over the course of human history, some amazingly complex... -
The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 by Stephen Bull
RRP: £9.99£7.67A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where... -
The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin 9781848407145
RRP: £14.99£10.95First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O'Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive,... -
Land Drainage and Flood Defence Responsibilities by Institution of Civil Engineers 9780727760630
RRP: £57.50£47.70Land Drainage and Flood Defence Responsibilities offers practical, engineering-focused coverage of the legislation relating to water management, flood risk and drainage. Owing to increasingly erratic weather patterns and the effects of climate change,... -
Lacan by Professor Fredric Jameson
RRP: £20.00£16.83The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual... -
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
RRP: £35.00£25.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408871Author Eyal WeizmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Museum Politics: Power Plays At The Exhibition by Timothy W. Luke 9780816619894
RRP: £20.99£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816619894Author Timothy W. LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
£17.79The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze 9780262547246
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547246Author Eric HeinzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Future War and the Defence of Europe by John R. Allen
£32.97Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781471156519
RRP: £10.99£7.00Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that... -
Power, Politics and Influence at Work by Tony Dundon 9781526146410
RRP: £14.99£13.64This book explores how power operates in workplace settings at local, national and transnational levels. It argues that how people are valued in and out of work is a political dynamic, which reflects and shapes how societies treat their citizens.Offering... -
How Change Happens by Duncan Green
RRP: £19.99£14.64Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee... -
The Twitmarsh Files by R. T. Fishall 9780752455044
RRP: £7.99£6.15Patrick Moore is Britain's most respected and best-loved astronomer. But under his nom de plume R. T. Fishall, he is also the scourge of bureaucratic incompetence, exposing stupidity wherever he finds it, especially amongst tax inspectors and traffic... -
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham 9780199677917
£35.00Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years,... -
Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided by Catherine Pelonero 9781510719835
RRP: £20.00£17.82Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown... -
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World by Rupert Russell
RRP: £10.99£7.40War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade... -
When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa by Robert H. Bates
RRP: £14.99£12.88In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In... -
The Acceptable Face of Feminism by Maggie Andrews 9781910448168
RRP: £16.00£15.59The British Women's Institute is more often associated with jam and Jerusalem than radical activity, but in this book Maggie Andrews explores the WI's relationship with feminism from the formation of the organisation in 1915 up to the eve of British... -
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
RRP: £55.00£43.31Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong... -
A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation by Antón Barba-Kay 9781009324779
RRP: £22.99£19.56There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of our attention spans. We resign ourselves... -
The Future by Al Gore
RRP: £16.99£12.28In The Future, former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of... -
Where Are The Elephants? by Leon Rosselson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639734Author Leon RosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Post-Democracy After the Crises by Colin Crouch 9781509541577
RRP: £15.99£14.41In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the facade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed increasingly to circles of wealthy... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah 9781849049900
RRP: £25.00£22.03In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus by Damon Garcia
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506480374Author Damon GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany 9780199858682
RRP: £39.49£24.20Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them... -
Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower by Michael Beckley 9781501724787
RRP: £23.99£18.25Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be part of any serious debate about where we are headed. The New York Times The... -
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks by David Welch 9781784533571
RRP: £23.99£23.80Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which... -
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol D. Leonnig
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN 'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the... -
Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet by Barbara Ward Jackson 9780393301298
RRP: £18.50£15.34An unofficial report commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Prepared with the assistance of a 152-member committee of corresponding consultants in 58 countries."[A] profoundly ethical,... -
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: £17.99£13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
RRP: £43.99£39.60South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province that had been part of Austria for over 500 years and was almost totally... -
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi 9781847924230
RRP: £14.99£10.95Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In The Geopolitics of Emotion, Dominique Moisi brilliantly demonstrates that the... -
A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz 9780195093872
RRP: £20.99£15.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £18.99£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982220Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 by Balazs Apor
RRP: £90.00£83.02This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception, and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Matyas Rakosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his...