Political Science

A Handbook for Inter-professional Practice in the Human Services: Learning to Work Together is an essential text for all students of inter-professional education, and for practitioners looking to understand and develop better inter-agency working.With an...

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has inspired the "Occupy" movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression - the "one percent." But is our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999665012Author Andrew ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint Garuda PublicationsPublisher Garuda PublicationsDimensions(mm) 148mm * 210mm * 10mm

The book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for...

The Get It Right for GCSE: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Answer Book provides suggested answers for all of the activities in the accompanying Workbook, making teacher assessment quicker. The Answer Book is ideal for teacher and student reference to...

Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition...

Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete struggles of women, the Marxist feminist Andrea D'Atri...

Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative...

'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies...

The international intervention after the 2011 Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi was initially considered a remarkable success: the UN Security Council's first application of the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine; an impending civilian massacre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593548974Author Ruby DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use roads and were the first to push for high-quality leadership for roads...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243336Author Jenn M. JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172480Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of...

From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put in another way, the freedom of action and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047821Author Elizabeth M. RenierisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Encompassing the whole spectrum of the history and theory of politics from Socrates to Rawls, this is the most comprehensive and scholarly reference work available on the subject.Book InformationISBN 9780631179443Author David MillerFormat PaperbackPage...

This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We're converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects -...

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF...

The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era. With SCALIA: Rise to...

Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler's Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by...

'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris,...

Between 1994-2014, Israel's security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created 'Occupation Inc.': the institution...

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758612823Author Nicole E DreyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Concordia Publishing House LtdPublisher Concordia Publishing House Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637632116Author Glenn BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm *...

Develop essential learning and employability skills to excel in business studies "A book that will see you through your business degree, from day one to several years after graduation." Fiona Winfield, School Employability Manager, Nottingham Trent...

The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide...

A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century AmericaHubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635767Author Freedom PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement's reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about...

In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of...

Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the...

Population is a prominent topic of debate following the world conference at the end of last year. This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled, and makes a forceful case for dramatically changing the...

The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is hampering international cooperation and fuelling conflict everywhere. The west's will - as well as its capability -...

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ...