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Dreams + Disillusions by CJ Lim 9780367075378
RRP: €39.26€34.70Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conventional title on the history of urbanism and architecture, its research fluctuates between the world of... -
The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich Victoria Bateman 9781509526772
RRP: €20.22€18.11Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How 'free' should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning... -
"The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress " by Virginia Postrel 9780684862699
€16.51Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684862699Author Virginia PostrelFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
€32.00Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
Food Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo) 9781509541775
RRP: €21.41€19.09We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world's population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy in recent decades has highlighted a... -
Shut That Door: THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF LARRY GRAYSON by Nlcholson Tony 9781914227189
RRP: €11.89€9.23Larry Grayson was extremely funny, highly likeable and much-loved. Those were sentiments felt not just by his millions of fans, but also by those who knew him personally. He was a complicated man who didn't become a star until well into his middle age,... -
Do Something: Activism for Everyone Kajal Odedra 9781529355437
RRP: €17.84€13.03'An indispensable manual for budding activists by one of the country's most effective campaigners.'Cathy Newman, Journalist and Presenter'Tired of complaining but don't know what to do? This beautifully written book will not only inspire you but give you... -
National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Vincent Boucher
RRP: €41.65€33.20Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and... -
The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia by David E. Hoffman
RRP: €20.22€17.83In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless... -
Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers (NHB Modern Plays) by Natalie Ibu 9781848429840
RRP: €22.60€16.43'Welcome. Welcome to Bristol in 1963. Welcome to Waterloo Bridge in 2016. Welcome to a house in May 2017. Welcome to three couples and what might be, what once was and what could have been in 2017. Welcome to a West Indian household in 2018. Welcome to... -
Trump and a Post-Truth World Ken Wilber 9781611805611
RRP: €16.65€11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805611Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Wolf Catcher: The true story of how one woman exposed the world's biggest heist by Clare Rewcastle Brown 9781527244757
RRP: €13.08€10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527244757Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press -
Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala
RRP: €26.18€20.66The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: €26.17€23.19The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas
RRP: €19.03€17.22As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan resistance leaders such as... -
Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes by Andrea Kendall-Taylor
RRP: €38.07€34.39Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing... -
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace by John Paul Lederach 9780195174540
RRP: €63.07€48.94John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. As founding Director of the Conflict Transformation Program and Institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, he has provided consultation... -
The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed: American Soldiers on Trial by Christopher Graveline 9781597974417
RRP: €36.89€30.84On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. The news quickly spread worldwide, undermining the U.S. presence in Iraq. Despite several Department of Defense investigations and... -
Practical Everyday English: Advanced Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs: Idioms:: 2022 by Steven Collins 9781838106911
RRP: €20.81€19.11For upper intermediate and advanced students only; not for beginners or elementary level. Practical Everyday English is Book 1 in the Everyday English series. It is a self-study book designed to improve the vocabulary of upper intermediate and advanced... -
China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation James Kynge 9780753826706
RRP: €11.89€8.33Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the worldThe new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world... -
Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War by Sarah LeFanu
RRP: €29.75€26.69In early 1900, the paths of three British writers-Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle-crossed in South Africa, during what's become known as Britain's last imperial war. Each of the three had pressing personal reasons to leave England... -
Babble: 200 Puzzles Inspired by Wordle Dan Moore 9781529425857
RRP: €10.70€7.60IF YOU LIKE WORDLE, YOU'LL LOVE BABBLE BABBLE is an addictive new word puzzle game that you can play as many times as you want in a day. Using the existing clues, work out and fill in the missing word: there can only ever be one right answer! This book... -
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine by Hagar Kotef
RRP: €27.36€23.81Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers... -
The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy Katherine Trebeck (Wellbeing Economy Alliance) 9781447337263
RRP: €17.84€14.43What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world's most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled... -
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany by Ned Richardson-Little
RRP: €29.74€25.20Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist... -
Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide Alan S Rosenbaum 9780813344065
RRP: €59.49€51.77In essays written specifically for this volume, distinguished contributors assess highly charged and fundamental questions about the Holocaust: Is it unique? How can it be compared with other instances of genocide? What constitutes genocide, and how... -
Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision by Jiri Valenta 9780801841170
RRP: €31.54€28.16In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the... -
Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 by Matthew F. Jacobs 9781469619095
€45.61As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans'... -
West Africans in Britain, 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism by Hakim Adi 9780853158486
RRP: €19.04€18.84This work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. The emergence of the West African Students Union (WASU) and its alliances with influential Labour MPs, the... -
Russian Politics and Society by Richard Sakwa
RRP: €42.83€39.62Fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of previous editions to provide a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of Russian politics... -
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap by Carrie Gracie
RRP: €7.13€5.08'Equal tells a personal story that changed the public debate' Guardian'[An] absorbing account . . . she laces her tale with mordant humour' Financial Times'A gripping personal story told with warmth and wit, combined with a 'how to' guide for anyone who... -
Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards
RRP: €27.95€24.24A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead. Everywhere we look, companies and governments are spying on us-seeking information about us and everyone we know... -
Actively Unwoke: The Ultimate Guide for Fighting Back Against the Woke Insanity in Your Life by Karlyn Borysenko
RRP: €23.80€15.30The woke have taken over every major institution in this country-the schools and universities, corporate America, the media, and the government. It's time to fight back. Actively Unwoke will show you how.For the last several years, we've watched as woke... -
A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells
RRP: €11.89€9.23While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: €13.08€9.51A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
The New Nomads by Felix Marquardt
RRP: €23.80€15.30We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think... -
UKIP: Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: €24.98€18.72The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two... -
Moscow, 1937 Karl Schloegel (European University of Viadrina) 9780745650777
RRP: €22.60€21.03Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schloegel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: €15.46€11.77'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire by Susan Kingsley Kent
RRP: €38.07€16.42Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and...